Minerva had tracked down one of Tremblay’s stories, translated into Spanish and reprinted in a horror anthology that had been put out by Minotauro in the eighties, and had fallen hopelessly in love with her prose. New England and witchcraft featured prominently in Tremblay’s work. Minerva’s original plan had been to dig into the autobiographical elements in The Vanishing and tie it all together in an essay with the context of New England’s history and folklore.
