The Devil Within by Devin Harbison

Author:Devin Harbison [Harbison, Devin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

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This is now the fourth book I have written, finished on the final day of the year, 2018, and, if you have been keeping up and following all of my books, then this is the fourth time we have spoken. If not, then hello, welcome, now is the time I explain more about what made me want to write this book, what went on behind the scenes, and how the story connects to me. With everything that I write, there is always a reason, as should be the case with every other writer in the world, for why something is written. My reasons can usually be summed up with a couple of questions. Am I trying to send some kind of message or insight from my own experiences in life, as in something that I have learned? Am I trying to explore a theme that has been a part of my life, or one that I have no connection to and would like to evoke? Am I attempting to write something in a specific genre or setting? Have I been influenced by some type of story I saw in another book, movie, TV show, or video game? Or did this idea just come to me randomly, or as I slept, and there was no way I was going to pass it up?

With this story, that of Luca and the rest of the village he calls home, I went in, for the first time ever, only with an interest in recreating the setting and themes of another story, two in fact, or even more depending on how you think about it. I mention Edgar Allan Poe in this novel, and did the same in Tranquility, because I really enjoyed his work in high school, specifically The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart. I also enjoyed the setting and themes of The Scarlet Letter, though not so much the book as a whole, so, in this story, I wished to combine some aspects of that novel and Poe’s short story about the heart. Specifically, I wanted to explore the colonial setting of The Scarlet Letter, and I wanted to rip apart the themes and ideas in The Tell-Tale Heart, that being how the protagonist is the villain, or not a good person at all, all along, and how they try to explain their own madness in what some people have called Poe’s “Deluded Detectives”.

And, for anyone who has read this story and come this far, it should be clear that, somehow, none of that ended up in the book as I drifted further and further away from my notes and rough outline and closer to whatever I felt was the best direction for the novel. And, no matter how strict I am in life about following plans or anything I have set out in a structured way, deviating from that was the best part of this entire journey. In two out of the three stories that I have published before this one, those books had a similar occurrence.

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