ABSTRACT
The topmost story provides a conduit to other fantastic spaces, evident in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Beetlejuice, and Pan's Labyrinth. In this film, upper-story space is not only central to narrative organization but is also conducive to imaginative and fantastic events. This chapter departs from intimations of the attic as a terrifying space, yet suggests that ordinary and everyday objects found in the attic are rendered uncanny through phenomena connected to unusual perspectives, notions of their aliveness, and other fantasy elements. This is illustrated, for instance, by the interior traverse of the wardrobe in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as well as the dialectics of miniaturization or immensity of characters and spaces in Beetlejuice. Little Women and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are concerned with familial separation arising because of war and each unfolds in scenarios of absent parents.
