The Gate of Dreams is reminiscent of classic fairy tale editions. Yet the three stories, which appeal to adults as well as children are entirely new. The sympathetic characters, along with the rural settings of these three stories, recall to the reader that sense of delight, recognition suspense and wonder found in the tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Aderson. Indeed it was the revered fairy tale scholar Bruno Bettelheim who first suggested the publication of the fairy stories of Lillian Somersaulter-Moats.