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"Feeling Theocidal", the first all-prose novel featuring the PHANTACEA Mythos is now available. Ordering information can be found here and here.

Summer 2009

  1. Featured Story
  2. Introductory Remarks
  3. PHANTACEA Essentials (Lynx to illustrated mini-essays)
  4. Hestia Housekeeping
  5. Today's Topic
  6. Latest Stories and Synopses
  7. Notes on Graphics
  8. Sites with Loads of Graphics
  9. Previous pHpubs
  10. Novels in search of a paying publisher
  11. Phantacea Publications available in print and digitally

"Feeling Theocidal"

Full Cover for Feeling Theocidal, artwork by Verne Andru, 2008

Written by Jim McPherson

Cover by Verne Andru, 2008

Published by James H McPherson, Publisher

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Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos

- written by Jim McPherson
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- where applicable artwork is as noted in the mouse-over text

© copyright 2009 Jim McPherson

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Logo reads Featured Story, prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2002

“My, my, such language,” scolded Pyrame Silverstar.

As Tethys must have known, many devils called her Sedon’s Whore when she wasn’t within earshot – not that devils needed ears to hear anymore than they needed howsoever many or few eyes to see, noses to smell or mouths to speak.

“And in front of the little one too: Bad Gorgon, beastly Gorgon. But, to answer your question: Not me, I’m more the mourning sort.”

“Not me either, wee-the-pee daddy," said the Demon Child, unless she was a devil child. "Met my pet yet? I call her Stynx on account of she stinks almost as much you do, boohoo. She’s cleaner the wiener, though the hoe.”

“I’d rather meet your maker, Lorna. Then I could kill him!”

“You wish,” said Pyrame.

“Can’t I devolve him, mommy?” Trala asked.

“Into what? He’s already an ignoramus.”

“Mean, mommy. He’s too small to be a hippopotamus.”

-- from 'Pre-Theo: "THE CRUCIFIXION OF TERRIBLE TETHYS"', the first chapter of 'Feeling Theocidal'


Introductory Remarks

Greetings. Welcome or welcome back.


"Feeling Theocidal", the first all-prose novel featuring the PHANTACEA Mythos is now available. Ordering information can be found here and here.

To order any of the other PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publications that are still available, including returned copies of PHANTACEA #1, click here or here.

(If you're ordering from me, certified cheques or money orders only please. I decided not to incur the cost of trying to set up an online payment system since they seem to benefit the intermediary more so than the publisher.)

Next door is the usual Hestia Housekeeping subsection of 'pHpubs'.

Down below is a vastly expanded list of lynx to a number of typically idiosyncratic mini-essays and/or Character Likeness studies I've prepared over the years. It's only sort of alphabetical but, in the absence of a PHANTACEA-specific search engine it'll have to do for now.

Most of the selections illustrate some of the peculiar perspectives I've developed while writing the PHANTACEA Mythos. The rest are direct quotes from "Feeling Theocidal" or its immediate sequel "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", which I hope will come out in 2010.

Contact me at jmcp@phantacea.com Feel free to ask any questions you might have regarding PHANTACEA. I'll do my best to answer them either directly or right here in 'pHpubs'.


Stories and Synopses

Pre-Theo: "THE CRUCIFIXION OF TERRIBLE TETHYS"


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Hestia Housekeeping

| What's New Intro | Latest overview of a PHANTACEA print publication | 'Feel Theo' Progress | Scanned-in copies of original comic book series still available for $10.00 CDN per issue | Today's Topic | Elsewhere (TIMP, Serendipity Now, latest synopses) | Conclusion |

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Good looking masthead, eh.

Hestia Housekeeping amounts to the 'What's New' section of pHpubs. Consequently I always start it with a 'What's Old' link to where I put its previous update.

Now that that's done, we can get on with this edition's preview. So what is new in Summer 2009? Truth told, it's more a matter of why I haven't got around to putting up a new Web-Publisher's Commentary for more like a couple of years now.

The reason I say that is because I've put plenty of new material online since the last time I wrote a commentary. They're just not online here, in the PHANTACEA Mythos online, as I'm now referring to this website.

Some the new stuff can be found over in the 'Travels in my Pants' (TIMP) web pages. It's main menu page is here whereas the latest entries include Slothing around Costa Rica & Panama (2009), El Retorno del Maximon (2003) and the reappearance of the Ephesian Heads Stone (1996), an ancient denizen of pH-Webworld.

Much, much more in the way of new material -- new material specifically prepared for the PHANTACEA Mythos, I should emphasize -- can be found on www.phantacea.com

It's main menu is here. The latest photo essays are here and here whereas the webpage entirely dedicated to 'Feel Theo', the first PHANTACEA Mythos print publication since 1990's graphic novel, is here.

As for what's gone, try hitting here, here and here and see where you end up. It's all part of my ongoing effort to meld three websites. And why would I want to do that? Hey, I've got to have something to fill up Today's Topic.

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As if all the above wasn't enough, there's so much new material in Serendipity Now I had to invent some previously non-existent entry points. Lynx to four that contain graphics are down below but there are plenty more. Try out "Assassination by Asteroid", "Spooky, not Serendipitous" and "Saudi's Descendent?" for starters.

What there isn't is any more chapters of either the Volsung Variations or the Vampire Variations. And where there's no new chaps there's no new sins either.

Who knows, come next update, maybe I'll take yet another reread and pick them up where I left off. Then again, it's not as if anyone's complained about them not finishing yet so maybe I won't bother anytime soon.


Feedback encouraged. Oh and, lest we forget, as always, good reading.

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Lynx to complete mosaic novels within the PHANTACEA Mythos whose potential covers, background information and introductory chapters are still online

| 2002: "The Moloch Manoeuvres" | 2003: "The War of the Apocalyptics" | 2004: "Decimation Damnation" | 2005: "The Trigregos Gambit" | 2008: "Feeling Theocidal" |

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PHANTACEA Essentials

| Anheroic Fantasy | Apple-Kores | Beware Firstborns | The Celestial Superior | The Cretan Snake Goddess | Devic Names | 'Domus Delle Gorgoni' | The Demons of Salvador | Fecundity | Fisherwoman | Freespirit Nihila | Gloriella D'Angelo Dark | PHANTACEAFactoids | Heliosophos | Mithras's Ninth | The Moloch Sedon | Names for the Nameless | The Perfidious Polygamist | Primeval Lilith | Sedonplay | The Silverclouds | The Smiling Fiend | Thrygragos Everyman | Thrygragos Varuna Mithras | The Thrygragos Talismans | The Time-Tumbling Dual Entities | The Trigregos Talismans | The Unities of Lazareme | Utopians of Weir | The VAM Entity |

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  • Freespirit Nihila: Perhaps Datong Harmonia, the Unity of Balance and, initially, the lone Unity of Panharmonium; alternatively she could be Nemesis, from the tail end of the 500-year Middle Sea (Mediterranean) Goddess Culture circa 1500 BC (2500 YD); With chains and scales-of-justice earrings suggestive of Freespirit Nihila and Harmonia, the Unity of Balance, scanned in from a newspaper and adjusted on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2003of course she could be both, and a whole lot more; starting with 'War-Pox', Nihila appears in the Launch sequences set in 19/5980;
    (NOTE: if she's Harmony then she's the firstborn daughter of Thrygragos Lazareme and the Trigregos Sisters and, as such, the eldest female Master Deva; additional lynx re Harmony are here and here, both lynx have text from 'Feel Theo');Scan of photo taken at the Delhi National Museum by Jim McPherson in 2005; the statue is entitled 'The Flying Celestials'
  • Gloriella D'Angelo Dark: Aka Radiant Rider, Rainbow; also of other angels and a devil or three;
  • Gold-Mining for PHANTACEA Factoids;
  • Heliosophos: The recurring Male Entity; in his 1st Lifetime during the 1955 & 1960 web-serials, his 11th during the 19/5938 serials and his 100th during the 19/5980 ones; could be his 61st Lifetime doesn't end until twilight Thrygragon;
  • Mithras's Ninth: Although generally identified as Pyrame Silverstar, Cathune Bubastis and Tralalorn (Lost Lorna), Mithras doesn't believe Trala's his; he thinks she's either the Moloch Sedon's 4th generational devil child or the Devil's demonic offspring by Primeval Lilith; text comes from "Feeling Theocidal";
  • The Moloch Sedon: The skyborn, as in extraterrestrial, lone member of the first generation of devazurkind, the inspirations for the Gods and Goddesses of Mythology; his essence composes Cathonia, the Sedon Sphere; arguably the Devil Himself;
  • Names for the Nameless (or PHANTACEA as an equal opportunity Mythos): antique Illuminaries of Weir gave names to third generational devils;
  • The Perfidious Polygamist: Jordan Tethys, the Legendary 30-Year Man, who also answers to 30-Beers; text comes from "Feeling Theocidal";
  • Primeval Lilith, the Demon Queen of the Night:The immortal, chthonic or earthborn daemon The Queen of the Night (Demon Queen Lilith), terracotta from Southern Iraq circa 1800 BC, scanned-in from a postcard purchased at the British Museum in London, Englandwho must possess the birth mothers of mortal Sed-sons at the moment of their conception; without Sed-sons alive on both sides of the Whole Earth the Sedon Sphere would collapse; arguably the Devil Herself;
  • Sedonplay: On the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, there's only ever one real winner; text comes from "Feeling Theocidal";
  • The Silverclouds: The two remaining members of Thrygragos Byron's three firstborn; plus shots of an actual Rudra idol and that of an Uma;
  • The Smiling Fiend: A photo of a faerie stuck in a tree taken by Jim McPherson in Vancouver Canada Aka Smiler, Ahriman, Sodom, Rhadamanthys, Judge Druj; the never-remembered fiend claims to be the firstborn son of Thrygragos Sedon;
  • Thrygragos Everyman: Lazareme's self-admitted goofball godly knack; text comes from "Feeling Theocidal";
  • Thrygragos Varuna Mithras: The Great God of Truth, Light, Justice and so much more may have been Uranus, Kronos and Zeus, he's that much of a tri-solar nutbar; reckons he was Shamash too; text comes from "Feeling Theocidal";
  • The Thrygragos Talismans: The Cross of Mithras, the Mask of Byron and Lazareme's Cloak of Many Colours;
  • The Time-Tumbling Dual Entities: The two most confounding characters in the PHANTACEA Mythos; conceivably the Male and Female Principals; as per 'Feel Theo', conceivably also Thrygragos Lazareme and Datong Harmonia;Three female faces in one head, reminiscent of the Trigregos Sisters; taken in hostel in Granada, Nicaragua by Jim McPherson, 2003
  • The Trigregos Talismans: The Three Sacred Objects, what may hold the secret to controlling devils and therefore Sedon's Head;
  • The Unities of Lazareme: a collage and informative image map featuring the Lord Laziest Great God and his disputatious firstborn; text comes from "Feeling Theocidal";
  • Utopians of Weir: Extraterrestrials who arrived on the Whole Earth a decade before the Genesea, the Great Flood of Genesis, and who have been, for the most part, stuck on the Inner Earth since it; those who have them can manifest gargoyles out of eyeorbs attached to the top of their eye-staves;
  • The VAM Entity: Thrygragos Varuna Mithras as Sol Invictus; plus more on the A-Guy who thinks the only thing invincible about Mithras is his presumptuousness;

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Integrating Websites & Other Great Godly Goings-On

Remind me never to do this again.

The PHANTACEA Mythos online has been on the worldwide web in one form or another since 1996. At first I hand-coded everything, then I switched to a succession of programs, not all of which I can remember let alone still have. Finally, circa 2002, I settled on Macromedia's Dreamweaver, which is now owned by Adobe. (I recently bought the CS4 version of it to go along with a brand spanking new computer that's no doubt already obsolete.)

The point being, yawn, the coding's become an unsightly, but still surprisingly functional, mess.

So, after setting up jmcptimps and then www.phantacea.com over the course of the last year and more, I finally got around to returning here to my flagship website, pH-Webworld. My goal was to integrate the three sites.

Which is all well and fine, not to mention overdue. Except I made the mistake of trying to upgrade pH-Webworld such that it's more compliant with all this CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) stuff that's come into play since 2002, the last year I took an html (hyper-text markup language) course.

Put it this way, other than for Serendipity Now I haven't written anything new for over a month and, as below, I'm supposed to be working on prepping both "The War of the Apocalyptics" and "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" for print-publication ('War-Pox' this year {2009} and '1000 Daze' for early in the year thereafter.)

As for why I even started the process, well, I've only got so much space on this server so it makes sense to spread the wealth around, so to speak. By wealth I'm mostly referring to graphics. There's a great many of them and they take up most of my territorial allotment within this portion of Cyberia.

Plus, once they're up, I'm loathe to take any down. Since most are also my own shots, and this is my website, I don't see why I should either. (BTW, I particularly like this one. Ask me it's eminently worth a double-click. I like it so much, I did it twice.)

That said, I have to admit that 3 of the four graphics below aren't my shots and that parts of the fourth, the one I like so much, aren't either. However, such is the nature of the webpage to which they belong, the aforementioned Serendipity Now, that I don't really feel guilty about scanning them in or copying them off the Web.

I believe in giving credit where credit is due so, as much as possible, I acknowledge where I got the images in the mouse-overs. Since a couple of browsers I could name don't provide mouse-overs any more, I also try to link notes re them to the graphics I put online.

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Even though, being devils, there's something decidedly ungodly about them, in terms of great godly goings-on there's been a fair amount of that as well. Not all of it's taken place in my head either.

Thrygragos Mithras, the Great God of Stacks of Stuff, is the focus of "Feeling Theocidal". With Devil Wind (Vayu Maelstrom) leading the way as per here, Bodiless Byron and his Primary Nucleoids occupy a ton of space in "The War of the Apocalyptics" whereas Thrygragos Lazareme, his Unities more so than him, dominate proceedings in "The 1000 Days of Disbelief".

Appearances proving deceptive, the Moloch Sedon doesn't have much to do in 'Feel Theo' except wait in bed for Pyrame Silverstar to show up in Grand Elysium along with her latest shell (who might be Ute Tethys, as also per here). He's more conspicuous, albeit most often by his absence, in '1000 Daze', though, but makes only a token appearance in 'War-Pox' and then only in a brief flashback foreboding section re the 4th generation Thanatoids of Lathakra.

As for the Dual Entities (Helios called Sophos the Wise and his Milady Memory), well, um, hey, they're definitely not in 'War-Pox', though they are on the moon. (With respect to either "Feeling Theocidal" and "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", definitely don't look here for any clarification of the well, um, hey, waffling in the previous sentence.)

At any rate, among the many sites I've spruced up include the section on PHANTACEA's Cornerstone Characters. You might want to avoid it, though, unless you're in the mood for spoilers.

If you've been scrolling through this page then you've already noticed another section I've not only spruced up but expanded mightily. That'd be the Essentials area of pHpubs. It's where the real work of website integration takes place and it's only going to get larger as time races by, as per usual much too fast.

As for the thumbnails, they're double-clickable, if that's a word. Except they don't open up a window containing a larger image of same; they open up a window containing a larger image of similar but different. Good clicking.

That'll do for now. Until the next time, be pHantacizing you. Oh, and in case you haven't done so already, here's a friendly reminder:

"Feeling Theocidal", the first ever, all-prose novel featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos, can now be ordered. Kindly do so immediately!
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Graphics Prepared for Serendipity Now

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Shot of a model brain implant, scanned in from a newspaper

Someday Cerebrus's headplate may become a reality

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A circled X, part of the Antikythera Device found in Athens, scanned in from magazine

The Mark of Cain (a circled-X), part of the Antikythera Mechanism from circa 250 B.C.E. or earlier or later

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What looks like a stegosaurus, shot taken at a temple in Cambodia, scanned in from a magazine

This looks like a stegosaurus but, whatever it's supposed to be, the shot was apparently taken at a temple in Cambodia

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A collage of various Medusas spotted in Europe 2008, shots or scans by Jim McPherson

Some of the Medusas spotted, scanned or shot while preparing graphics for "Feeling Theocidal"

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Notes on Graphics:

  1. The full cover for "Feeling Theocidal", artwork by Verne Andru, 2008; return to masthead;
  2. The mouse-over behind the graphic reads: "Shot of a model brain implant, scanned in from a newspaper". I scanned it in from the Vancouver Sun dated 2 August 2007. The credit given is Cleveland Clinic. The link takes you here. Return to image.
  3. The mouse-over behind the graphic reads: "A circled X, part of the Antikythera Device found in Athens, scanned in from a magazine". I scanned it in from Atlantis Rising dated July/August 2009. I couldn't find any credit given for photo. The link takes you here. Return to image.
  4. The mouse-over behind the graphic reads: "What looks like a stegosaurus, shot taken at a temple in Cambodia, scanned in from a magazine". I scanned it in from Atlantis Rising dated July/August 2009. I couldn't find any credit given for photo. The link takes you here. Return to image.
  5. The mouse-over behind the graphic reads: "A collage of various Medusas, some spotted in Europe 2008, shots or scans by Jim McPherson". Clockwise from the top left hand corner are: Carvaggio, Rubens, a Venetian mask, more of the Rubens, a red/black Medusa taken from web, a Medusa shot in the Natural History Museum in London and one shot in a Lisbon train station. The link takes you here. Return to image.
  6. The background image in the Serendipity box is the All-Seeing Eye of Providence; I took it, in June of 2008, within the chapel of the highly recommended Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra, Portugal; for some reason the estate's guidebook calls it "The Flaming Triangle". There's a contemporaneous email here; in the same entry there's a double-click graphic that opens a window containing a collage that features not only this version of the eye but another one shot in Lisbon on the same trip. Return to image.
  7. The page background is a variant of the front cover for"Feeling Theocidal"; artwork by Verne Andru, 2008; it's been flipped horizontally, stripped of colour and then tinted; it can be better viewed from here or here;
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Sites with Loads of Graphics:

Google.ca supplies what amounts to a pH-Webworld web gallery. Just go to http://www.google.ca/, hit the images link and type in PHANTACEA. Pasting into the address area of your browser the following Url might work as well: http://images.google.ca/images?q=phantacea&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&start=100&sa=N&filter=0

PHANTACEA on the Web is chock-a-block with visuals. Good places to ogle artwork from the comic books and graphic novel are One to Six, 'Twenty-Five Years Plus' and what began as 'The Genesis of PHANTACEA' web-page. Most of the other graphics are scans I did of my own photographs or material I put together using PHOTOSHOP. All the essays are loaded with images. Try out the framed version of the Main Menu. You won't go anywhere else but, then again, you won't get lost either.

  • The PHANTACEA Mythos: Beehive Ghost Houses

  • The PHANTACEA Mythos: Heliodyssey

    WARNING: Graphic Summary -- Might take awhile to load!

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Latest List of Lynx to some previous Web-Publisher's Commentaries

| Spring 2008 | Autumn 2007 | Summer 2007 | Winter 2006/7 | Summer 2006 | Winter 2005/6 | Summer 2005 | Winter 2004/5 | Summer 2004| Spring 2004 | Autumn 2003 | Summer 2003 | Autumn 2002 | Summer 2002 | Autumn 2001 | Spring-Summer 2001 | Winter 2000/1 | February 1999 | November 1998 | August 1998 | Samplings from other Not So Recent Commentaries | June-March '97 | February '97-July '96 |

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NOTE ON PAGE BACKGROUND IMAGE: A variant of the front cover for"Feeling Theocidal", artwork by Verne Andru, 2008, stripped of colour then tinted; there's a note re who appears on the cover here; the main character is Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, the Great God of Truth, Light, Justice and so much more, including civilization itself according to him; the main entries on PHANTACEA's Mithras are here and here;
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Phantacea Publications in Print

- The 'Launch 1980' story cycle - 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Fantasy Trilogy - The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels - The phantacea Graphic Novels -

The 'Launch 1980' Story Cycle

The War of the Apocalyptics

Front cover of War Pox, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2009

Published in 2009; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Nuclear Dragons

Nuclear Dragons front cover, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2013

Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

Helios on the Moon

Front cover for Helios on the Moon, artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014

Published in 2014; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here;

The 'Launch 1980' story cycle comprises three complete, multi-character mosaic novels, "The War of the Apocalyptics", "Nuclear Dragons" and "Helios on the Moon", as well as parts of two others, "Janna Fangfingers" and "Goddess Gambit". Together they represent creator/writer Jim McPherson's long running, but now concluded, project to novelize the Phantacea comic book series.

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'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Epic Fantasy

Feeling Theocidal

Front Cover for Feel Theo, artwork by Verne Andru, 2008

Published in 2008; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

The 1000 Days of Disbelief

Front cover of The Thousand Days of Disbelief, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Published as three mini-novels, 2010/11; main webpage is here; ordering lynx for individual mini-novels are here

Goddess Gambit

Front cover for Goddess Gambit by Verne Andru, 2012

Published in 2012; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

Circa the Year of Dome 2000, Anvil the Artificer, a then otherwise unnamed, highborn Lazaremist later called Tvasitar Smithmonger, dedicated the first three devic talismans, or power foci, that he forged out of molten Brainrock to the Trigregos Sisters.

The long lost, possibly even dead, simultaneous mothers of devakind hated their offspring for abandoning them on the far-off planetary Utopia of New Weir. Not surprisingly, their fearsome talismans could be used to kill Master Devas (devils).

For most of twenty-five hundred years, they belonged to the recurring deviant, Chrysaor Attis, time after time proven a devaslayer. On Thrygragon, Mithramas Day 4376 YD, he turned them over to his Great God of a half-father, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, to use against his two brothers, Unmoving Byron and Little Star Lazareme, in hopes of usurping their adherents and claiming them as his own.

Hundreds of years later, these selfsame thrice-cursed Godly Glories helped turn the devil-worshippers of Sedon's Head against their seemingly immortal, if not necessarily undying gods. Now, five hundred years after the 1000 Days of Disbelief, they've been relocated.

The highest born, surviving devic goddesses want them for themselves; want to thereby become incarnations of the Trigregos Sisters on the Hidden Continent. An Outer Earthling, one who has literally fallen out of the sky after the launching of the Cosmic Express, gets to them first ...

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The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels

The Death's Head Hellion

- Sedonplay -

Front cover for The Death's Head Hellion, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;

Contagion Collectors

- Sedon Plague -

Front cover for Contagion Collectors, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;

Janna Fangfingers

- Sedon Purge -

Front cover for Janna Fangfingers, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

Published in 2011; two storylines recounted side-by-side, the titular one narrated by the Legendarian in 5980, the other indirectly leading into the 'Launch 1980' story cycle; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here;

In the Year of the Dome 4825, Morgan Abyss, the Melusine Master of the Utopian Weirdom of Cabalarkon, seizes control of Primeval Lilith, the ageless, seemingly unkillable Demon Queen of the Night. The eldritch earthborn is the real half-mother of the invariably mortal Sed-sons but, once she has hold of her, aka Lethal Lily, Master Morgan proceeds to trap the Moloch Sedon Himself.

In the midst of the bitter, century-long expansion of the Lathakran Empire, the Hidden Headworld's three tribes of devil-gods are forced to unite in an effort to release their All-Father. Unfortunately for them, they're initially unaware Master Morg, the Death's Head Hellion herself, has also got hold of the Trigregos Talismans, devic power foci that can actually kill devils, and Sedon's thought-father Cabalarkon, the Undying Utopian she'll happily slay if they dare attack her Weirdom.

Utopians from Weir have never given up seeking to wipe devils off not just the face of the Inner Earth, but off the planet itself. Their techno and biomages, under the direction of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon's extremely long-lived High Illuminary, Quoits Tethys, have determined there is only one sure way to do that -- namely, to infect the devils' Inner Earth worshippers with fatal plagues brought in from the Outer Earth.

Come All-Death Day there are more Dead Things Walking than Living Beings Talking. Believe it or not, that's the good news.

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phantacea Graphic Novels

Forever and Forty Days

- The Genesis of Phantacea -

Front cover of Forever and Forty Days; artwork by Ian Fry and Ian Bateson, ca 1990

Published in 1990; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

The Damnation Brigade

- Phantacea Revisited 1 -

Front cover of The Damnation Brigade, artwork by Ian Bateson, retouching by Chris Chuckry 2012

Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

Cataclysm Catalyst

- Phantacea Revisited 2 -

Front cover for Cataclysm Catalyst, artwork by Verne Andru, 2013

Published in 2014, main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here

Kadmon Heliopolis had one life. It ended in October 1968. The Male Entity has had many lives. In his fifth, he and his female counterpart, often known as Miracle Memory, engendered more so than created the Moloch Sedon. They believe him to be the Devil Incarnate. They've been attempting to kill him ever since. Too bad it's invariably he, Heliosophos (Helios called Sophos the Wise), who gets killed instead.

On the then still Whole Earth circa the Year 4000 BCE, one of their descendants, Xuthros Hor, the tenth patriarch of Golden Age Humanity, puts into action a thought-foolproof, albeit mass murderous, plan to succeed where the Dual Entities have always failed. He unleashes the Genesea. The Devil takes a bath.

Fifty-nine hundred and eighty years later, New Century Enterprises launches the Cosmic Express from Centauri Island. It never reaches Outer Space; not all of it anyhow. As a stunning consequence of its apparent destruction, ten extraordinary supranormals are reunited, bodies, souls and minds, after a quarter century in what they've come to consider Limbo. They name themselves the Damnation Brigade. And so it appears they are -- if perhaps not so much damned as doomed.

At least one person survives the launching of the Cosmic Express. He literally falls out of the sky -- on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head. An old lady saves him. Except this old lady lives in a golden pagoda, rides vultures and has a third eye. She also doesn't stay old long. He becomes her willing soldier, acquires the three Sacred Objects and goes on a rampage, against his own people, those that live.

Meanwhile, Centauri Island, the launch site of the Cosmic Express, comes under attack from Hell's Horsemen. Only it's not horses they ride. It's Atomic Firedrakes!

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