On the other hand, many of the tales had a compelling sense of dark revelation, the gradual realization by the narrator that the comforting “real world” humans inhabited was in fact nothing but weak gauze ready to be pulled aside to reveal an abyss of terrors underneath. It was sort of the opposite of Moses and the burning bush, or Paul on the road to Damascus. The same basic concept as religion—the world is not the world—but twisted.
