When we deal with literary fiction — just as when we deal with other works of fiction: films, plays, etc. — we comprehend its content without believing in its truth. According to many, such comprehension must be conditioned by readers’ imagining (or make-believing) that something is the case. According to others, it doesn’t have to be this way. However, this standard debate concerns the connection between our experience with literary fiction and the use of the so-called suppositional imagination (imagining that). In this talk, I want to shift focus on considering whether reading fiction have to rely on imagistic imagination (imagining x), and especially visual imagination. After all, we grasp the content of literary fiction without seeing its visual equivalents, and often without ever seeing some of them before. While literary works of fiction do not provide us with images (usually), movies and plays do — which likely fuels the common belief that the former fictions are „more imaginative” than the latter. But is our engagement with literary fiction conditioned by imagining images? There are good reasons not to think so, and I will outline some of them.