![]() She couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her. Anyway, so she, as an introduction to the greater phenomenon of psychic attack, talks about her experience as a young occultist studying with a legendary mentor and how this woman attacked her-psychically attacked her-and how she didn’t know for a year. It’s about how to identify the signs of psychic attack. She wrote novels, and she also wrote this extremely helpful book (at least for me) called Psychic Self-Defense - an occult self-help book, basically. The inspiration for this novel was a book that was published in 1930 by a woman named Dionne Fortune. I read somewhere that The Vanishers was triggered by a book you came across - a non-fiction book that had to do with the occult. That some people, some readers, might choose not to suspend disbelief. With each step you take away from the familiar, you’re taking a bit of a risk. But nothing in fiction is exactly like the real world, is it? Not even if you’re writing about a suburban mom. ![]() But The Vanishers does take place in the sort of fictional realm in which people don’t think it’s the weirdest thing ever for someone to display psychic abilities. Maybe ‘alternate universe’ isn’t the best term for it. I guess I don’t really think of it as an alternate universe. ![]() What was it like to invent one for The Vanishers? You’ve never written a speculative novel before, one that takes place in an alternate universe. ![]()
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