Weird Fiction and the Secret Landscape of the Soul

Dear Living Dark reader,

Today’s post is a very slight revision of one that I published under a similar title two years ago. Given the direction this newsletter has moved since then, along with other things like the writing course that I’m currently teaching online to seventy-plus students, it seems like a good time to revisit this piece and its focal topic.

That topic is the distinction between surface story and understory in works of fiction, and the way stories of the weird and supernatural—whi...