“Our Brains Oblige”: Memory, Ghosts, and Storytelling in Craig Davidson’s The Saturday Night Ghost Club

A masterpiece of contemporary Canadian fiction, Craig Davidson's The Saturday Night Ghost Club (2018) is a masterfully crafted coming-of-age story that deals with various issues ranging from love to personal loss. This paper aims to analyse the novel's Gothic undertones and the symbolic significance of the textual ghosts in depicting individual trauma, arguing that ghosts, as liminal concepts, are not only embodiments of trauma, but also effective means of understanding the self and healing. Drawing on ideas from narratology and psychology, the article also focuses on the complex interplay between storytelling and memory.

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