Anna Bradley explores how recurring themes and tropes in fantasy fiction can provide “inspiration” and “teach us about our everyday lives”: Fantasy reminds us that weird and wonderful things can and do exist, even in the real world. If you’re looking, you might just begin to find them.
Following the example of Movoto, the real-estate company which used details from the Harry Potter books to appraise the Weasley family home, another UK company is using homes in classic books as a fun bit of publicity.