Working in the Dark contains a suite of photographs by Thaddeus Holownia, whose studio now stands upon the site of John Thompson's home; a long prefatory essay by the book's editor, Peter Sanger; and a set of elegies for Thompson to which Harry Thurston, Matthew Holmes, Allan Cooper, Peter Sanger, Amanda Jernigan, Rob Winger and Andrew Steeves have contributed. A recently discovered prose poem by Thompson, found in the Mount Allison University Thompson Archives, is published for the first time.