With its associations with darkness, nighttime, nature, superstition, the irrational, and the feminine, the Moon serves as a potent symbol, mirroring societal attitudes about class and gender. It even reflects our notion of time itself, negating mechanical time in favour of the cyclical nature of mythic time. “The Moon as Mirror” examines three Gothic works to see what they have to say about their particular era. Ramsey Campbell’s The Hungry Moon is analysed and assessed for its Folk Horror themes, examining the anxieties towards rural communities as well as the Christian fundamentalism of the 1980s. Elizabeth Hand’s Waking the Moon broadens the scope, considering what the Lunar Gothic reveals about the Female Gothic in the 1990s and beyond. Finally, Helen Cresswell’s Moondial is analysed as a Gothic fairy tale, undermining the notion of history and “the myth of progress” as theorist Tom Wessels puts it, considering the redemptive power of the Lunar Gothic.