Author Declan Hyde says part of his inspiration in writing the novella was to create a positive representation of Latter-day Saints, something that he says isn't seen in mainstream media these days.
With “The Resurrection Box,” Provo writer explores faith, magic, revelation and more in hopes of creating positive representations of Latter-day Saints in media.
The intriguing prospect of working with the themes of faith and horror — combined with an open call for short story submissions on the topic — prompted Hyde to undertake the project. His idea kept swelling, however, eventually exceeding the word count for a short piece, and thus was born his upcoming novella, “The Resurrection Box.”
The story’s religious aspects stand out as well. The mother is a miner’s polygamous wife, who learns of the coffin’s existence through a vision and that its location is somewhere in the mountains near her Mormon pioneer settlement. Hyde has been interested in storytelling since he was a young. Crafting stories about his action figures was his first foray into the world of words. He’s always wanted to explore the Latter-day Saint experience but has wrestled with how exactly to do so — until now.In the novella, he intertwines the two genres together in a number of ways. For example, when Zina has her vision “and goes on this quest to find this magical item, it does tie into the early roots of the church.
“As a story about faith, one of the biggest things is faith and revelation, which are big things in the LDS religious tradition,” Hyde says, “One of the things I wrestle with is how you interpret revelation? How do you know if something is coming from God?”
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