[THIS BLOG is written by MOLLY TURNER, Acquisitions Editor for Encourage Publishing.] There is a genre of Christian Fiction that is swarming with stories of darkness, evil, and demons…and people love it. They love stories that accentuate the spiritual world and show the reader how it works, exposing how it entangles with our everyday lives. Interestingly, in my experience, these works tend to rely on using extremes to be the catalyst to move the story forward. What leads so many Christians to be preoccupied with a topic that the Bible is amazingly uninterested in explaining to us? Jesus, who regularly was engaging with demons while on earth, wasn’t interested in giving us a rule book on fighting the devil’s army, but rather said to put our trust in Him because He has overcome the world. And then there is of course the apostle Paul, who when charging the church of Ephesus to fight in spiritual warfare, rather than give a map of where evil lives or various tactics to expose or exorcize