After a long and unplanned hiatus, The Veil has returned.
What happened? Busy-ness and life happened, in the form of two day jobs, a long and dreary bout of Covid, a wonderfully rambunctious son who discovered the joys of house-league soccer and baseball, and the ongoing work of moving our family to small-town Ontario, to a house adorned with several legacy flower and pollinator gardens that demand human sacrifices. And cats. So many cats. Cats that demand to be let outside, even when the coyotes and foxes are prowling.
I’m not complaining. A busy life is a happy life, but the Covid attack, which levelled multiple family members in slow succession and put me behind on everything, plus a health scare in my extended family, meant that cargo had to be temporarily tossed overboard from the Ship of Life. That cargo, alas, was The Veil.
That time away gave me time to focus on and reimagine The Veil. We’ll continue with in-depth interviews highlighting the most interesting horror authors and thinkers we can find, but the essays will be more focused on a few key themes/ideas that, to this point on the site, have only been skirted around and prodded with a long stick. More about that later.
New to The Veil: serialized fiction! Who doesn’t love a scary novel or novella or long story unfolding in real time, and what better medium for that Victorian favourite, the serialized page-turner, than a Substack newsletter? I can’t think of one.
The first chapter(lette) of The Veil’s first serialized work, a longish story called “The Heart of a Pig,” will arrive early tomorrow morning, EST. You’ve been warned.
So glad to have you back! And glad the health issues are better! :)