Collected here are the twenty-five of Michael R. Collings's best pieces, including: “The Persistence of Darkness,” “Quantum Memories: Notes Toward an Anti-Definition of Science Fiction Poetry,” “Writing the Fantastic and Religion: Some Ruminations on the Roles of Poetry,” “Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror in Paradise Lost: ‘And on His Crest Sat Horror Plum’d’,” “Rethinking ‘Lewis after Milton’: Suggestions Concerning Religion, Science Fiction, and Poetry,” “‘To Be Still a Man’: Abstraction and Concretion in C. S. Lewis,” “C. S. Lewis and the Music of Creation,” “The Mechanisms of Fantasy,” “Beyond Deep Heaven: Generic Structure and Christian Message in C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Novels,” “Of Books and Reputations: The Confusing Cases of King, Koontz, and Others,” “The Radiating Pencils of His Bones: The Poetry of Stephen King,” “On Kubrick’s The Shining,” “Interview with Shuei Sai: The Films of Stephen King,” “Considering The Stands,” “Faith Within Fantasy: Stephen King, Richard Bachman, and Seventeenth-Century Devotional Poetry,” “Stephen King’s The Dark Tower in the Epic Tradition,” “Christ-Figures in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card,” “The Rational and the Revelatory in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card,” “Literary Heroism in the Works of Orson Scott Card,” “The Story that Binds Them Together: Orson Scott Card’s The Folk of the Fringe and the Structure of the Medieval Mystery Cycles,” “Orson Scott Card and Mythopoeic Fiction,” “The Epic of Ender,” “Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show: Realism in Horror Fiction,” “Who is Billy Jones?: Some Suggestions Toward an Understanding,” “An Essay into LDS Writers and the Fantastic.”