Taking as a starting point the treatment given by Freud to the German signifier unheimlich, the paper will examine the issue of the Biblical epigraphs in Murilo Rubião’s text, a deviceused to give voice to the subject’s phantom. The use of the concept of the “phantom” points to the undeniable possibility of reading Rubião’s short-stories through psychoanalysis (howeveruncommon this may be). Complex crossings of subjectivity, as well as the subject’s inner conflicts, are constitutive elements of Rubião’s fantastic literature, a literature that dealsextensively with the conflict between compulsion and its regulation, the individual and his/her surroundings, represented above all by the allusion to family ties, the family, and the clan, as the...