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Publications in Print

1977-1980 -- PHANTACEA, the Comic Book Series: One to Six

1986 -- PHANTACEA Phase One #1 (and only)

1990 -- PHANTACEA, the Graphic Novel: "Forever & 40 Days -- the Genesis of PHANTACEA"

2008 -- "Feeling Theocidal", Book One of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' and the first ever, all-prose novel featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos

2009 -- "The War of the Apocalyptics", the opening entry in the 'Launch 1980' cycle of stories, all of which are based on the phantacea comic books and web-serials

2010 -- "The Death's Head Hellion" and "Contagion Collectors", the first two mini-novels extracted from "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy

2011 -- "Janna Fangfingers", the third and final mini-novel extracted from "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy and the effective prequel to the 'Launch 1980' cycle of stories

2012 -- "Goddess Gambit", the conclusion of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy and the continuation of the 'Launch 1980' cycle of stories

(Ordering information on remaining print-publications and scanned-in copies of the original comic book series can always be found here. Instant ordering gratification via amazon.com and some of its affiliates are at the bottom of this page.)

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E-Versions of Phantacea Publications

2011 -- "Feeling Theocidal", Book One of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' and the first ever, all-prose novel featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos; comes complete with a fully illustrated Afterword

2012 -- The three mini-novels comprising "The Thousand Days of Disbelief", Book Three of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' ; each comes with its own book-specific character companion (all of which are reprinted here)

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The Web Serials

The Launching of the Cosmic Express

• 1994: Centauri Island (Completed)
• 1993: The War of the Apocalyptics (Completed - Revised 2003)
• 1992/3: Helios on the Moon (Completed)
• 1992: The Trigregos Gambit (Completed - Revised 2005)

Heliodyssey

• 1995: The Moloch Manoeuvres Completed - Revised 2002)
• 1996/2002: Helioddity (Completed)
• 1997/2005: Coueranna's Curse (Completed)
• 1998: The Volsung Variations (Ongoing)
• 1999: The Vampire Variations (Ongoing)

Ringleader's Revenge

• 1987/2000: Last of the Supranormals (Completed)
• 1987/2001: Aspects of an Amoebaman (Completed)

The Damnation Brigade

• 1992/2003: Month One - After Limbo ('The Weirdness of Cabalarkon') (Completed)
• 1991/2003: Year One - After Limbo ('Psychodrama') (Completed)

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'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

Spring 2002 Revision

• An Overview of Manoeuvres, including applicable aspects of the PHANTACEA Mythos
• Earlier Information regarding Manoeuvres
• Later Information regarding Manoeuvres
• Summer 2002's Hestia-Housekeeping
• The Sorority of Sausages (& other Graphic Lynx)
• Dot.Dotty for Manoeuvres
• Original "Back Cover Teaser" for Manoeuvres
• Links to Manoeuvres's original chapter-by-chapter Synopses
• Sample Chapters from the beginning of Manoeuvres
• Original "Back Cover Teaser" for 'Helioddity', the follow up story sequence to Manoeuvres
• Links to Oddity's chapter-by-chapter Synopses
• Potential Back Cover for Manoeuvres

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'Decimation Damnation'

Summer 2004 Debut

• Introduction
• Premise
• Chapter Titles & Pagination
• Synopsis of DecDam, Chapter-by-Chapter
• DecDam's 1st 3-Chapters

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'The Trigregos Gambit'

Summer 2005 Revision

• Introduction
• Premise
• Chapter Titles & Pagination
• Synopses of Gambit's Sample Chapters
• Gambit's Sample Chapters

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Unpublished Excerpts from PHANTACEA Comic books

1981 Ian Bateson Artwork for pH-7 - Crystallion & Hell's Horsemen attack Centauri Island (not yet online)

1985/6 Ian Bateson Artwork for PHANTACEA Phase One #2 - Damnation Island, pt 1

1985/6 Ian Bateson Artwork for PHANTACEA Phase One #2 - Damnation Island, pt 2

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Excerpts from "Feeling Theocidal"

Print-Published in the Autumn of 2008 -- A lengthy list of lynx can be found here

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Excerpts from "The War of the Apocalyptics"

Print-Published in the Autumn of 2009 -- The start of a list of lynx can be found here

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Excerpts from "The Thousand Days of Disbelief"

Print-Published as three mini-novels in 2010 & 2011, the start of a list of lynx to quotations from it can be found here

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Excerpts from "Goddess Gambit"

Print-Published 2012, the start of a list of lynx to quotations from it can be found here; notes re earlier versions of Gambit can be found here and here

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Photo Essays and Ongoing Web Features

• The PHANTACEA Covers Gallery
• Latest update of the Home & Prime Picture Gallery
• The Summer 2007 Provisional Preview of 'Feeling Theocidal'
• The 2005 pHpubs Image Map
• Coyotes of a Conundrum (Anheroic Fantasy Headgames - A PHANTACEA FAQ: Part 1)
• Coyotes of a Conundrum (Anheroic Fantasy Headgames - A PHANTACEA FAQ: Part 2)
• Colour Key for various Web Features
• The 2002 pHpubs Image Map: Celebrating a Quarter Century of PHANTACEA (not just on the Web)
• PHANTACEA -- The Winter 2006/7 Collection of Character Likenesses and Illustrated Mini-Essays: The VAM Entity plus The Demons of Salvador (Setting - Tralalorn's Stynx - Multi-Horns - 2-Faced Demogorgon), all the lynx of which also incorporate direct quotes from 'Feeling Theocidal'
• PHANTACEA -- The Summer 2006 Collection of Character Likenesses and Illustrated Mini-Essays: The Thrygragos Talismans (The Cross of Mithras, the Mask of Byron and Lazareme's Cloak of Many Colours), Images Selected for "The Volsung Variations" and Images Selected for "The Vampire Variations"
• PHANTACEA -- The Winter 2005/6 Collection of Character Likenesses and Illustrated Mini-Essays: Gloriella D'Angelo Dark (Aka Radiant Rider, Rainbow; also of other angels and a devil or three), Devic Names in the PHANTACEA Mythos, The Two Silverclouds (The remaining members of Thrygragos Byron's three firstborn; plus shots of an actual Rudra idol and that of an Uma) and Anheroic Fantasy (Who are we supposed to cheer for in PHANTACEA)
• PHANTACEA -- The Summer 2005 Collection of Character Likenesses and Illustrated Mini-Essays: The Smiling Fiend (Aka Smiler, Ahriman, Sodom, Rhadamanthys, Judge Druj), The Trigregos Talismans (The Three Sacred Objects, what may hold the secret to controlling devils and therefore Sedon's Head) and The Cretan Snake Goddess (Who dresses a little like Pyrame Silverstar, the Perpetual Presence, partial mother of the Sed-sons)
• PHANTACEA -- The Winter 2004/5 Collection of Character Likenesses and Illustrated Mini-Essays: Freespirit Nihila (Once Harmonia, the Unity of Balance), Cel-Spook (In death, as in life, the Celestial Superior) and Manifesting Gargoyles (Utopians from the Weirdom of Cabalarkon)
• PHANTACEA -- The Summer 2004 Collection of Character Likenesses and Illustrated Mini-Essays: Primeval Lilith (The Demon Queen of the Night), Fisherwoman (Scylla Nereid, Lady Achigan) and Heliosophos (The Male Entity)
• PHANTACEA -- The Summer 2002 Illustrated Collection of Serendipitous Sightings
  Includes snaps suggesive of Blind Sundown and Raven's Head, Sorciere and Granny Garuda, Wilderwitch and Wildman Dervish Furie
• PHANTACEA -- Twenty-Five Years Onward
• The PHANTACEA Mythos: Egyptian Evocations
• The PHANTACEA Mythos: Heliodyssey, a Graphic Summary of the 1938 Story Sequences
• The PHANTACEA Mythos: Exposition prepared for the 2002 revised version of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'
• The PHANTACEA Mythos: The Tomb of Agamemnon (re events that took place there in 1916)
• The PHANTACEA Mythos: The Tomb of Cecilia Metella (re events that took place there on the 12th of January 1938)
• The PHANTACEA Mythos: Tholos Tombs (Beehive Ghost Houses)
• The PHANTACEA Mythos: Golden Age Patriarchs -- 1990 Details
• Glossaries of Peculiarities
• Places Peculiar to PHANTACEA
• Terms Peculiar to PHANTACEA
• Peculiar Perspectives: Ephesian Heads Stone, Turkey, Autumn 1996
• Peculiar Perspectives: House Head Museum (currently offline)
• Serendipity and PHANTACEA
• Sedon's Head: Inspiration or Destination?
• Fluffy Philosophies in PHANTACEA
• Faeries and PHANTACEA

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Web-Publisher's Commentary

1. Featured Story
2. Introductory Remarks
3. Hestia Housekeeping
4. PHANTACEA Essentials
5. Stories and Synopses
6. Today's Topic
7. Comments Requested
8. A Quick Note on Graphics
9. A List of Sites with Loads of Graphics
10. Latest Lynx to some previous Web-Publisher's Commentaries

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FEEDBACK

ORDERING INFORMATION

GOLD-MINING FOR PHANTACEA FACTOIDS

SEDON'S HEAD -- 1978 Image Map (With many additional notes and lynx re places frequented by the ever-enlarging ensemble cast of characters who have thus far appeared in the PHANTACEA Mythos)

NET-FRIENDLY BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Jim McPherson

Webpage last updated: Spring 2012

Ordering Information for PHANTACEA Mythos novels, mini-novels and e-books

Downloadable order form for additional PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publications

Current Web-Publisher's Commentary

Jim McPherson's Worldwide Email Address -- jmcp@phantacea.com

PHANTACEA: THE WEB SERIALS

Website last updated: Spring 2012

Phantacea Publications
(James H McPherson, Publisher)
74689 Kitsilano RPO
2768 W Broadway
Vancouver BC V6K 4P4
Canada

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Websites featuring, at least in part, Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos

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pHantacea on pHacebook: http://www.facebook.com/phantacea

Jim McPherson's pre-2010 Travels: http://members.shaw.ca/jmcptimps

Jim McPherson's post-2010 Travels: http://members.shaw.ca/jmcp1749

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