Midnight Doorways: Decoding Pakistan’s Dark Fables of Horror and Violence through Speculative Fiction

Abstract

This research explores the living bodies as abjections in the selected short stories. The characters are analyzed in this research through the works of Julia Kristeva, psychoanalytical term of abject that exhibits violence committed on. The underprivileged group in the chosen tales of Midnight Doorways: Fables; from Pakistan, the study is aimed at critically analyzing the impact of speculative, fiction focuses on the underserved communities and presents them as abject to provoke horror in the stories. The language and bright imagery involved by the author in these fables make a repulsive effect on the readers. The study will remark on the mentality of the majority group at the middle of the society and theirs. Ethics of living, or treatment of the peripheral ones. The focus of the study is to delve into the bodily experience of the characters in a biased community in. body mutilation, starvation, lack of hygiene and physical assault contributes to it, the process of abjection. The study is a critical and detailed one study.