“This isn’t a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don’t overdose.”

–Dean Koontz

Writer Dean Kootz frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire within his books and essays. How he realises that logic and realism cannot survive without the essential complements known as fantasy and fiction sets him apart from his contemporaries. He captures what we now take for granted within Pakistani society – that people are steeped in mysticism and religion is embroiled within a culture amalgamated with magic. The line between religious doctrine and magical realism has been blurred in recent centuries and we are now in an age where this relation with mysticism of the future and reassurances provided by saints are an integral and inseparable part of nation’s history. However even Dean Kootz recounts how an overdose on such fallacies can be fatal to society’s future.