SPIRITED AWAY: From the back of the back of The Gormenghast Novels, which I checked out again to read the second book and which Andrew O'Hehir probably implausibly cited in his review:

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience. --C.S. Lewis

The same thing applies to Spirited Away.