The St. Ulphia’s Dead Companion
Go deeper into the novel through short author conversations, a live performance, and book-club resources.
Inside the Novel
Four brief conversations about the questions behind St. Ulphia’s Dead, its central relationship, and the strange territory between belief and explanation.
Why I Wrote St. Ulphia’s Dead
On storytelling, transformation, and the question that began the book.
Introducing St. Ulphia’s Dead
A brief introduction to the island, the investigation, and the experience of reading the novel.
Relationship Dynamics
How Mirs and Jo’s shifting power dynamic became the emotional center of the book.
Why Magical Realism?
On ambiguity, belief, and allowing the impossible to remain unresolved.
Films by Paul David Benedict / The Discerning Lens.
Watch a Live Reading
Experience a live performance of “The Funeral,” an excerpt from
St. Ulphia’s Dead, recorded at the Action Fiction! Book Launch Edition in Bellingham, Washington.
Performed by Jack Tronsdal, Jayn Entwistle, and Scott Lambridis.
For Book Clubs
St. Ulphia’s Dead is built for conversation: belief and evidence, cultural explanation, intimacy, trauma, ambiguity, and the stories people rely on to survive.
Discussion Questions
Explore questions about love and death, psychosis, culture-bound disorders, ambiguity, observation, and whether the novel is ultimately a ghost story.
Invite Scott
Scott is available for virtual and select in-person book-club conversations.
Keep Exploring
Read reviews, interviews, and features about the novel.