History Literature / TheStonesAreHatching

* {{Aborted Arc}}: [[spoiler:On the way to Hy Brasil, Uncle Murdo tells Phelim that his companions are working for the Stoor Worm and the Obby Oss is a hatchling. This is never mentioned again; this is odd because Murdo had little reason to lie, yet Sweeney, Alexia and the Obby Oss never show any signs of being aligned with the Stoor Worm.]]
* {{Abusive Parents}}: Prudence. Actually an abusive older sister, but she still raised Phelim, destroying his self esteem by constantly insulting him, and [[spoiler:lied to him about his father; she claimed he had died when she actually had him committed to a lunatic asylum for being a 'dreamer'.]].
* {{Apocalypse How}}: Type 0. British civilisation is shown to have mostly collapsed, with people reverting to Pagan practices out of fear, due to being attacked by hundreds, perhaps thousands of supernatural monsters. Because of the size of the Stoor Worm, it can be reasonably assumed that the same is occurring in mainland Europe.
* {{Anticlimax Boss}}: [[spoiler:The whole book is a build-up to the slaying of the Stoor Worm, and a large amount of tension is built around how hard it would be the fight it. Phelim kills it by kicking a mouse off a cliff.]]
%% * {{Back From The Dead}}: [[spoiler:Alexia/Aisling]]
%% * {{Bedlam House}}: [[spoiler:Where Prudence intended to send her father. It turns out that he's actually now the gardener of a rather pleasant facility for shellshocked war veterans.]]
%% * {{Black Magic}}: What Alexia uses.
* {{Casts No Shadow}}: Alexia, [[spoiler:because the devil mistook it for her and took it. She regains it after being resurrected.]]
* {{Came Back Strong}}: [[spoiler:Alexia/Aisling, subtly. After he resurrection, her white hair turns red, her shadow and reflection are back, and her features are slightly different, implying that the damage done to her by studying dark magic has been repaired.]]

%% * {{Eldritch Abomination}}: The Stoor Worm, and most of the hatchlings; those that aren't this fall under {{Humanoid Abomination}}.

%% * {{The Fair Folk}}: [[spoiler:The fairies of Hy Brasil.]]
%% * {{Human Sacrifice}}: A group of farmers try to do this to Phelim, believing that it will ward off the hatchlings.
%% * {{Mars Needs Women}}: [[spoiler:The ultimate motivation of the fairies.]]
%% * {{Meaningful Name}}: Alexia means 'help'. [[spoiler:Her new name, Aisling, means dreamer.]] Both of these are actually mentioned and discussed by the characters.
%% * {{Mystical White Hair}}: Alexia has this. [[spoiler:She's implied to be a natural redhead]].
* {{Our Dragons Are Different}}: The Stoor Worm is referred to as a dragon several times, and actually shares more traits with a dragon - such as having teeth and a snout, and laying eggs - than with a worm.
* {{Our Mermaids Are Different}}: The merrows - they're monsters who steal souls and imprison them in crab cages.
%% * {{The Soulless}}: Uncle Murdo and Aunt Audrey, briefly.
%% * {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}: [[spoiler:Sweeney's reason for being insane.]]
* {{The Unmasqued World}}: Before the events of the book began, everyone had long since dismissed magic and mythology as mere superstition. With the hatchlings now rampaging around Britain and presumably, Europe, this is no longer the case.
* {{Wrong Genre Savvy}}: [[spoiler:Uncle Murdo thinks that he's in the kind of work in which fairies are benevolent, wish-granting beings. [[TheFairFolk He's not.]]]]
%% * {{Your Soul Is Mine}}: What the merrows do to Uncle Murdo and Aunt Audrey. [[spoiler:the Devil attempted to do to Alexia before the book began.]]

* {{Back From The Dead}}: [[spoiler:Alexia/Aisling]]
* {{Bedlam House}}: [[spoiler:Where Prudence intended to send her father. It turns out that he's actually now the gardener of a rather pleasant facility for shellshocked war veterans.]]
* {{Black Magic}}: What Alexia uses.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sweeney and the Obby Oss.
* {{Eldritch Abomination}}: The Stoor Worm, and most of the hatchlings; those that aren't this fall under {{Humanoid Abomination}}.
* {{Expy}}: The Stoor Worm is one of [[Myth/NorseMythology Jorgamand]]
* {{The Fair Folk}}: [[spoiler:The fairies of Hy Brasil.]]
* {{Human Sacrifice}}: A group of farmers try to do this to Phelim, believing that it will ward off the hatchlings.
* {{Mars Needs Women}}: [[spoiler:The ultimate motivation of the fairies.]]
* {{Meaningful Name}}: Alexia means 'help'. [[spoiler:Her new name, Aisling, means dreamer.]] Both of these are actually mentioned and discussed by the characters.
* {{Mystical White Hair}}: Alexia has this. [[spoiler:She's implied to be a natural redhead]].

* {{The Soulless}}: Uncle Murdo and Aunt Audrey, briefly.
* {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}: [[spoiler:Sweeney's reason for being insane.]]

* {{Your Soul Is Mine}}: What the merrows do to Uncle Murdo and Aunt Audrey. [[spoiler:the Devil attempted to do to Alexia before the book began.]]

One day, Phelim O'Green, a boy living with his sister Prudence shortly after the {{First World War}}, wakes up to discover his house filled with strange, filthy creatures called glashans, led by a creature who lives behind his stove called the Domovoy. They are hiding from a monstrous [[{{hellhound}} black dog]]. They force Phelim out of the house, referring to him as 'Jack'.

The Stones Are Hatching is a fantasy novel by Geraldine [=McCaughrean=], published in 1999. It borrows heavily from Myth/CelticMythology and {{Europe}}an folklore.

The Stones Are Hatching is a fantasy novel by Geraldine [=McCaughrean=], published in 1999. It borrows heavily from {{Celtic Mythology}} and {{Europe}}an folklore.

{{Mystical White Hair}}: Alexia has this. [[spoiler:She's implied to be a natural redhead]].

* {{Chekhov's Gun}}: [[spoiler:Soul mice. A small, irrelevant detail mentioned early on by Alexia, later used to kill the Stoor Worm.]]
* {{Chekhov's Gunman}}: The ushtey. It appears early on, pretending to be the Horse, and is then [[spoiler:summoned again by Phelim at the end of the book to drag Prudence away, presumably to her death.]]

* {{Anticlimax Boss}}: [[spoiler:the whole book is a build-up to the slaying of the Stoor Worm, and a large amount of tension is built around how hard it would be the fight it. Phelim kills it by kicking a mouse off a cliff.]]

* {{Chekhov's Gun}}: [[spoiler:soul mice. A small, irrelevant detail mentioned early on by Alexia, later used to kill the Stoor Worm.]]

* {{The Fair Folk}}: [[spoiler:the fairies of Hy Brasil.]]

* {{Mars Needs Women}}: [[spoiler:the ultimate motivation of the fairies.]]

* {{Wrong Genre Savvy}}: [[spoiler:Uncle Murdo thinks that he's in the kind of work in which fairies are benevolent, wish-granting beings. [[TheFairFolk he's not.]]]]

{{Aborted Arc}}: [[spoiler:On the way to Hy Brasil, Uncle Murdo tells Phelim that his companions are working for the Stoor Worm and the Obby Oss is a hatchling. This is never mentioned again; this is odd because Murdo had little reason to lie, yet Sweeney, Alexia and the Obby Oss never show any signs of being aligned with the Stoor Worm.]]

{{Abusive Parents}}: Prudence. Actually an abusive older sister, but she still raised Phelim, destroying his self esteem by constantly insulting him, and [[spoiler:lied to him about his father; she claimed he had died when she actually had him committed to a lunatic asylum for being a 'dreamer'.]].

{{Apocalypse How}}: Type 0. British civilisation is shown to have mostly collapsed, with people reverting to Pagan practices out of fear, due to being attacked by hundreds, perhaps thousands of supernatural monsters. Because of the size of the Stoor Worm, it can be reasonably assumed that the same is occurring in mainland Europe.

{{Anticlimax Boss}}: [[spoiler:the whole book is a build-up to the slaying of the Stoor Worm, and a large amount of tension is built around how hard it would be the fight it. Phelim kills it by kicking a mouse off a cliff.]]

{{Back From The Dead}}: [[spoiler:Alexia/Aisling]]

{{Bedlam House}}: [[spoiler:Where Prudence intended to send her father. It turns out that he's actually now the gardener of a rather pleasant facility for shellshocked war veterans.]]

{{Black Magic}}: What Alexia uses.

{{Casts No Shadow}}: Alexia, [[spoiler:because the devil mistook it for her and took it. She regains it after being resurrected.]]

{{Chekhov's Gun}}: [[spoiler:soul mice. A small, irrelevant detail mentioned early on by Alexia, later used to kill the Stoor Worm.]]

{{Chekhov's Gunman}}: The ushtey. It appears early on, pretending to be the Horse, and is then [[spoiler:summoned again by Phelim at the end of the book to drag Prudence away, presumably to her death.]]

{{Came Back Strong}}: [[spoiler:Alexia/Aisling, subtly. After he resurrection, her white hair turns red, her shadow and reflection are back, and her features are slightly different, implying that the damage done to her by studying dark magic has been repaired.]]

{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sweeney and the Obby Oss.

{{Eldritch Abomination}}: The Stoor Worm, and most of the hatchlings; those that aren't this fall under {{Humanoid Abomination}}.

{{Expy}}: The Stoor Worm is one of [[Myth/NorseMythology Jorgamand]]

{{The Fair Folk}}: [[spoiler:the fairies of Hy Brasil.]]

{{Human Sacrifice}}: A group of farmers try to do this to Phelim, believing that it will ward off the hatchlings.

{{Mars Needs Women}}: [[spoiler:the ultimate motivation of the fairies.]]

{{Meaningful Name}}: Alexia means 'help'. [[spoiler:Her new name, Aisling, means dreamer.]] Both of these are actually mentioned and discussed by the characters.

{{Our Dragons Are Different}}: The Stoor Worm is referred to as a dragon several times, and actually shares more traits with a dragon - such as having teeth and a snout, and laying eggs - than with a worm.

{{Our Mermaids Are Different}}: The merrows - they're monsters who steal souls and imprison them in crab cages.

{{The Soulless}}: Uncle Murdo and Aunt Audrey, briefly.

{{Shell Shocked Veteran}}: [[spoiler:Sweeney's reason for being insane.]]

{{The Unmasqued World}}: Before the events of the book began, everyone had long since dismissed magic and mythology as mere superstition. With the hatchlings now rampaging around Britain and presumably, Europe, this is no longer the case.

{{Wrong Genre Savvy}}: [[spoiler:Uncle Murdo thinks that he's in the kind of work in which fairies are benevolent, wish-granting beings. [[TheFairFolk he's not.]]]]

{{Your Soul Is Mine}}: What the merrows do to Uncle Murdo and Aunt Audrey. [[spoiler:the Devil attempted to do to Alexia before the book began.]]

The Stones Are Hatching is a fantasy novel by Geraldine McCaughrean, published in 1999. It borrows heavily from {{Celtic Mythology}} and {{Europe}}ean folklore.

{{Expy}}: The Stoor Worm is one of [[UsefulNotes:NorseMythology Jorgamand]]

{{Mars Needs Women}}: [[spoiler:the ultimate motivation of the fairies.}}

{{Wrong Genre Savvy}}: [[spoiler:Uncle Murdo thinks that he's in the kind of work in which fairies are benevolent, wish-granting beings. [[TheFairFolk he's not.]]

{{Broken Masquerade}}: Before the events of the book began, everyone had long since dismissed magic and mythology as mere superstition. With the hatchlings now rampaging around Britain and presumably, Europe, this is no longer the case.

{{Broken Masquerade}}: Before the events book began, everyone had long since dismissed magic and mythology as mere superstition. With the hatchlings now rampaging around Britain and presumably, Europe, this is no longer the case.

{{Came Back Strong}}: [[spoiler:Alexia/Aisling, subtly. After he resurrection, her white hair turns red, her shadow and reflection are back, and her features are slightly different, implying that the damage done to her by studying dark magic has been repaired.}}

{{Chekvov's Gun}}: [[spoiler:soul mice. A small, irrelevant detail mentioned early on by Alexia, later used to kill the Stoor Worm.]]

{{Chekvov's Gunman}}: The ushtey. It appears early on, pretending to be the Horse, and is then [[spoiler:summoned again by Phelim at the end of the book to drag Prudence away, presumably to her death.]]

{{Abusive Parents}}: Prudence. Actually an abusive older sister, but she still raised Phelim, destroying his self esteem by constantly insulting him, and [[spoiler:lied to him about his father; she had him committed to a lunatic asylum for being a 'dreamer'.]].

{{Shell-Shocked Veteran}}: [[spoiler:Sweeney's reason for being insane.]]

One day, Phelim O'Green, a boy living with his sister Prudence shortly after the {{First World War}}, wakes up to discover his house filled with strange, filthy creatures called glashans, led by a creature who lives behind his stove called the Domovoy. They are hiding from a monstrous [[Hellhound black dog]]. They force Phelim out of the house, referring to him as 'Jack'.

The Stones Are Hatching is a fantasy novel by Geraldine McCaughrean, published in 1999. It borrows heavily from {{Celtic Mythology}} and {{European}} folklore.

{{Abusive Parents}}: Prudence. Actually an abusive older sister, but she still raised Phelim, destroying his self esteem by constantly insulting him, and [[spoiler:lied to him about his father; she had him committed to a lunatic asylum for being a 'dreamer'.]].

{{Eldritch Abomination}}: The Stoor Worm, and most of the hatchlings; those that aren't this fall under {{Humanoid Abomination}}

{{Human Sacrifice}}: A group of farmers try to do this to Phelim, believing that it will ward off the hatchlings.
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The Stones Are Hatching is a fantasy novel by Geraldine McCaughrean, published in 1999. It borrows heavily from [[UsefulNotes:CelticMythology Celtic mythology]] and [[UsefulNotes:Europe European]] folklore.