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Victor LaValle Is Reimagining the Western. What eventually did appears at first to be a very different novel from what came before. It concluded a remarkable feat, a trilogy Stephen King called “one of the great achievements of American fantasy fiction.” Nearly a million words in length, spanning centuries of human struggle, with a huge cast of characters, it understandably left the author “pretty spent.” Rather than dive directly into another book, he opted to wait, “to see what would rise organically” in his imagination. You could say it’s about how religions are born.Ĭronin completed the trilogy in 2016 with The City of Mirrors. His mega-selling trilogy, The Passage, may be a mixture of vampire horror, apocalyptic science fiction, adventure novel, and western, but at its thematic heart, it’s a story about how stories come to be more than story. More than honest, in fact: his novels actively try to unpick that secret, and to answer questions about the origins, impact, and longevity of human storytelling. 
When asked, he talks about the “deep stew of the unconscious mind” and credits a creative writing teacher who told him his job as writer is “to be sitting at his keyboard when the story comes from above.” Cronin offers anecdotes and recognizes inspirations, but he’s honest about the true mystery that underpins his work. Justin Cronin has no ideas where his stories come from.
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