The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims

The image has often been noted as a representation of sublimity during the Romantic movement. So perhaps a more Romantic respect for the sublime, the overwhelming sense of nature and our modest place in it? The Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich. I’m very sympathetic to a sense of awe, and share it, and although I don’t myself believe in a creator deity, I can certainly understand the many people whose sense of awe shades into a religious sense.īut growing up with hundreds of acres of woods nearby did very much encourage my interest in nature, which led to my interest in natural science, which in time led to my career as a writer. Growing up rural also meant, in my case, growing up Southern Missionary Baptist, with a fundamentalist and anti-education mother, which helped to sour me on religious thinking, I’m sure. In real life, I have no patience for supernatural thinking. I had the great honor to interview writer and editor Michael Sims about his newest book, The Phantom Coach and pick his brain about growing up in rural Tennessee, the (super)natural and what the ghost stories of our time will be like.ĭid that disconnection from what some might call “civilization” imbue you with an affinity for the supernatural?Īctually, I think it did the opposite.

The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims