The novel, Novel Without A Name, opens with an eerie description of the Gorge of the Lost Souls in which nature is perceived as being full of supernatural elements. The novel consistently includes references to the supernatural and to the natural world. Why? What are these descriptions intended to do?

Because the novelists or narrator, has been fighting and haunted by bad dreams for many years and he has seen many people die over the years. As a results the dead are never far from his memory.  These descriptions are intended to show how being surrounded by the unburied bodies affects him emotionally and psychologically.