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"The Thousand Days of Disbelief"

Covers for 1000 Daze prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010/11Covers for 1000 Daze mini-novels prepared by Jim McPherson, 2919/11The three mini-novels constituting "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories', are available for ordering online.

Just as happily, "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers" are available for ordering at website prices of $10.00 each.

Of course, all three mini-novels can be ordered directly from Phantacea Publications for the same price, albeit not by credit card. (Cheques and money orders only, please.)

For the time being, if you order directly from me I will absorb shipping costs and government taxes on all three mini-novels.

The same as the two thus-far-published, full-length mosaic novels featuring Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos, "Feeling Theocidal" and "The War of the Apocalyptics", 1000-Daze is set in large measure on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head.

Its ensemble cast traces, at the top of the food chain, Thrygragos Everyman and his firstborn Unities (the incomparable Harmony, Thunder & Lightning Lord Order and Uncle Abe Chaos) from the heights of their freewheeling prime to the depths of their inevitably catastrophic decline.

All three mini-novels contain book-specific character companions. In the 'Anheroic Fantasy Illustrated' tradition of the decades-gone phantacea comic books, augmented versions of these companions are online.

In its entirety 1000-Daze constitutes Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories'. A growing selection of lynx to out-takes from all three parts of the overall novel can be found here.

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"Feeling Theocidal -- Thrygragon, Year of the Dome 4376" (Book One of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy), "The War of the Apocalyptics" (the first entry in the Launch 1980 story sequence), the three mini-novels making up "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" (Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories') and "Goddess Gambit" (Book Three of the trilogy and the second entry in the Launch 1980 story sequence) should be available at neighbourhood bookstores and public libraries all over the world.

Please be aware that "Janna Fangfingers", the third and final mini-novel comprising 1000-Daze, rather cleverly doubles as a prequel to the Launch 1980 sequences. Be aware also that e-versions of Feel Theo, Hellion, Contagion and Fangers are available on the Kindle format exclusively from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and some of amazon's other European affiliates until the end of March 2012.

If you don't see the novels or mini-novels displayed at your local book stops, kindly direct purchasing agents and/or booksellers to www.phantacea.com in order to help them rectify such a sad situation.

A number of Phantacea Publications, specifically "Feeling Theocidal", "The War of the Apocalyptics" the three mini-novels constituting "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" (namely "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers"), and "Goddess Gambit", can be ordered from amazon.com and its affiliates, including amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk, as well as from Barnes & Noble.

Until the end of March 2012, e-versions of "Feeling Theocidal", "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers" can be ordered on the Kindle format exclusively from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and four of amazon's additional European affiliates.

Libraries, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Coutts Information (and Library) Services, Baker & Taylor, and a large network of other distributors worldwide.

Or, if you prefer to order directly from the publisher, email or send your order(s) via surface mail. No matter where you live or what currency you prefer to use, I'll figure out a way to fill your order(s) myself.

As an introductory offer, I will absorb shipping costs and government taxes on "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers" only. Just be aware that I can only accept certified cheques or money orders.

For all the other PHANTACEA Mythos print publications, I'll have to charge an additional 12% to cover Canadian and provincial taxes as well as Canada Post rates for shipping. I do use bubble mailers, though.

BookFinder.com lists both mosaic novels: "Feeling Theocidal" and "The War of the Apocalyptics". Also listed therein are most of the other PHANTACEA Mythos print publications.

Another interesting option for the curious is Chegg, which has a rent-a-book program. Thus far its search engine shows no results for phantacea (any style or permutation thereof) but it does recognize Jim McPherson (a variety of them) and the titles of the novels.

As for the Whole Earth (other than the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, at least as far as I can say), this page contains a list of a few other websites where you can probably order the novels in a variety of currencies and with credit cards.

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- Page Contents - The Buzz - Getting Proactive for phantacea - Purchasing Options - The 10-Second Synopsis for "The Death's Head Hellion" - Full Cover for Hellion - Notes on Hellion Covers - Blow-up of Hellion's Front Cover - Hellion's Back Cover Blurb - Hellion's digest covers - The 10-Second Synopsis for "Contagion Collectors" - Full Cover for Contagion - Notes on Contagion Covers - Blow-up of Contagion's Front Cover - Contagion's Back Cover Blurb - Contagion's digest covers - The 10-Second Synopsis for "Janna Fangfingers" - Full Cover for Fangers - Notes on Fangers' Covers - Blow-Up of Fangers' Front Cover - Fangers' Back Cover Blurb - Lynx to Notes re Characters on covers, page and panel backgrounds - Bottom of Page Lynx - Downwards - Upwards -

The Ten Second Synopsis for "The Death's Head Hellion"

Set in the Year of the Dome 4824/5, Hellion is the opening section of "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories'.

It presents a terrifying dilemma that Thrygragos Everyman and his Unities, freewheeling anarchists the loathsome load of them, must resolve lest the post-Thrygragon Era of Empires results in a second Genesea.

(Loathsome load to Horrites, monotheists and Utopians of Weir, but often best-beloved deities to everybody else living on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head during the Age of Lazareme.)

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Cover for The War of the Apocalyptics, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2009lon,

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The Ten Second Synopsis for "Contagion Collectors"

Set in the Years of the Dome 5456 to 5476, Contagion is the second section of "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories'.

It details extraordinary efforts made by inveterate enemies of devazurkind to eradicate devil-worship beneath the Sedon Sphere -- by wiping out everyone who lives on the Hidden Headworld.

Three Outer Earthlings you may have heard of play howsoever insignificant roles in Contagion. They are Twisted Tommy (Tomas de Torquemada, age 56), Bosco (Hieronymous Bosch, age 26), and Dire (Albrecht Durer, age 4).

Dire and Drang (a hound, not yet a dachshund) are having a wonderful boy/dog adventure until four already much feared riders on psychopomp-steeds burst into their hence no longer exclusive paradise, the Garden of Earthy Delights.

As for the god by then sitting high above them all, in a Brainrock throne on a mushroom cloud, he's the deviant half-son of two of the terrifying riders, the one with the buzzsaw-scales and the one with the bow and already notched arrow.

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Cover for Contagion Collectors, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

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The Ten Second Synopsis for "Janna Fangfingers"

Set in the Years of the Dome 5476 to 5495 – but narrated in 5980 YD – Fangers is the third and final mini-novel comprising "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy.

As told by the Legendarian, Jordan 'Q for Quill' Tethys, the day before the scheduled launching of the Cosmic Express from the Outer Earth's Centauri Island, it details the truly horrifying consequences of the thereafter demonized Trigregos Titaness playing a Trigregos Gambit.

Wittingly or unwittingly, she sets in motion circumstances that so imperil the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head the Genesea could finally overwhelm it — nearly 5,500 years belatedly.

Her actions, and those of her husband and their terrible twins, dauntless deviants the three of them, result in not just the 1000 Days of Disbelief themselves but in All-Death Day itself. In many respects because of them, more Dead Things are marching against the Living than there are beings breathing, let alone fighting back.

It being his Age, resolving such a cataclysmic turn of events should properly fall to Thrygragos Everyman and his three Unities (the incomparable Harmony, Thunder and Lightning Lord Order and Uncle Abe Chaos).

After all, they eventually sorted threats to the Inner Earth as posed by the Death's Head Hellion and, much later on, contagion collectors subordinate to Quoits Tethys (the Titaness's Granny Jordy) and her lieutenants, Tomcat Taddletail and Herta Heartthrob, among others.

Maybe they would have, too. Except, what's left of them after Harmony's Feast Day, 5492, are driving the debacle.

And Janna Fangfingers is riding the wave of her mother's making both then, in the Dome's 55th Century, and now, in its 60th.

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Full Front and Back Cover for Janna Fangfingers, text and cover collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011cover

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Front and Back Cover for "The Death's Head Hellion"

James H McPherson, Publisher. Text and cover preparation by Jim McPherson, 2010.

Notes on many of the images that went into this cover collage can be found here. The current back cover blurb is here. The original digest version of "The Death's Head Hellion" and its back cover blurb is here. Lynx leading to a partial list of excerpts from the novel can be found here.

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Phantacea Publications (James H. McPherson, Publisher) presents the first mini-novel extracted from "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"

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

Notes on many of the images that went into this cover collage can be found here. The current back cover blurb is here. The original digest version of "The Death's Head Hellion" and its back cover blurb is here.

Cover preparation by Jim McPherson, 2010/11

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THE INFERNAL EQUINOX

New Year’s Eve, 4824/5 Year of the Dome

The success of Thrygragon brought such hope to seemingly immortal devil-gods worshipped throughout the Inner Earth of Sedon’s Head.

Devils, though, love their freedom to do as they please.

Instead of the anticipated dawning of Panharmonium, sibling rivalries, intertribal jealousies and the ever-unpredictable whimsies of the Devil above them all ensure an endless era of take-no-prisoners empire-building ensues.

Some four and a half centuries after Thrygragon, armies loyal to the death-gods of Lathakra are running rampant over the Upper Head. Star Sedon ceases to shine.

Defence of his traditional power base, Grand Elysium, falls to his privileged but impotent priesthood. If they succumb, the Lathakrans next target is certain to be the Utopian Weirdom of Cabalarkon.

Supported by earthborn multitudes from Hell itself, and with remarkably still-functional, originally extraterrestrial weaponry at her command, the demonically-empowered Master of Weir counterattacks mercilessly.

In the almost 5,000 years since the Moloch Sedon preserved it from the Genesea, his Hidden Headworld has never experienced such approaching apocalyptic devastation.

Cover, interior collages and a bonus, book-specific character companion prepared by the author, Jim McPherson

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Back cover blurb for the original, digest version of "The Death's Head Hellion"

Lilith and Daemonicus, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010In 4825 Year of the Dome, forces loyal to the Death Gods of Frozen Lathakra threaten to overwhelm the Utopian Weirdom of Cabalarkon. Its demonically-empowered Master counterattacks mercilessly.

Front and back cover for The Death's Head Hellion, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010In the nearly 5000 years since the Moloch Sedon preserved it from the Great Flood of Genesis, the Hidden Headworld has never experienced such approaching apocalyptic devastation.

The success of Thrygragon brought such hope to devil-gods worshipped throughout the Inner Earth of Sedon’s Head. Yet, instead of the anticipated dawning of Panharmonium, sibling rivalries, intertribal jealousies and the ever-unpredictable whimsies of the Devil above them all ensure only an endless era of take-no-prisoners empire-building ensues.

The Thanatoids of Lathakra, once Sedon’s Horn, King Cold and Hot Stuff, the Scarlet Empress, seek to replace the Head’s reigning sense of hopelessness with another Golden Age, that of their own. The Unity of Chaos supports them. The Unities of Order and Balance don’t.

Star Sedon ceases shining. Thrygragos Everyman wakes up after centuries of sleeping with his brother’s head as a pillow — whereupon he demands a cold pilsner.

Master Morgan Abyss does everything imaginable to stop the Death Gods and their highborn allies. Finally, left with no other option, the Death’s Head Hellion does much worse.

She prepares to go Novadev-nuclear on their asses!

Text and cover preparation by Jim McPherson, 2010
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Front and Back Cover for "Contagion Collectors"

James H McPherson, Publisher. Text and cover preparation by Jim McPherson, 2011.

Notes on many of the images that went into this cover collage can be found here. The current back cover blurb is here. The original digest version of "Contagion Collectors" and its back cover blurb is here. Lynx leading to a partial list of excerpts from the novel can be found here.

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James H. McPherson, Publisher, presents the second mini-novel extracted from "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"

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

Notes on many of the images that went into this cover collage can be found here. The current back cover blurb is here. The original digest version of "Contagion Collectors" and its back cover blurb is here.

Cover preparation by Jim McPherson, 2010/11

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Panharmonium Dying

Years of the Dome circa 5300 to 5500

Despite often violent suppression by forces blinkered by monotheistic absolutism, at the height of the Renaissance seekers after secrets are determined to discover all there is to know about the universe.

Yet, right here on the earth beneath their feet, there is no greater secret than that there is a Cathonic Dome. The second greatest secret beyond the Dome is that a continent the size of Africa lies underneath it.

Fifty-plus decades after realizing Panharmonium, Thrygragos Everyman and his just as immortal firstborn, the Unities of Chaos, Order and Balance, are horrified to learn that the plagues and poxes ravaging the Inner Earth are far from natural. They’re deliberate attempts to end its days.

Utopian biomages, the daemonic or chthonic creatures they’ve sometimes made, and their Hellion confederates, armed as they are with the thrice-cursed Godly Glories, have been venturing to the Outer Earth for centuries now.

These are the Contagion Collectors. When they return, they’re never alone.

And it all started with the Rat Catcher of Hamelin.

Cover, interior collages and a bonus, book-specific character companion prepared by the author, Jim McPherson

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Back cover blurb for the original, digest version of "Contagion Collectors"

Despite often violent suppression by forces blinkered by monotheistic absolutism, at the height of the Renaissance seekers after secrets are determined to discover all there is to know about the universe.3 Images suggestive of Thrygragos Lazareme, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

Front and back cover for Contagion Collector, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010Yet, right here on the earth beneath their feet, there is no bigger secret than that there is a Cathonic Dome. The second biggest secret beyond the Cathonic Dome is that a continent the size of Africa lies underneath it.

The barrier between the Inner and Outer Earth is anything except sealed hermetically. Most of the reason for that is down to the atomic ruination of the Laughing Lands of so many pantheistic paradises in 4825 YD, when Morgan Abyss ruled the Weirdom of Cabalarkon as its Master.

Some sixty-five decades after claiming credit for abolishing the Death’s Head Hellion, the devil-gods whose Age it remains – Thrygragos Everyman and his similarly seeming immortal firstborn, the Unities of Chaos, Order and Balance – are horrified to learn of a potentially even more apocalyptic threat to the Hidden Continent of Sedon’s Head.

Utopian biomages, the daemonic or chthonic creatures they’ve sometimes made, and their Hellion allies, armed as they are with the thrice-cursed Godly Glories, have been venturing outside the Sedon Sphere for centuries now. There they’ve been ensnaring seekers after secrets and bringing them back inside. It’s not their brains or curiosity they’re after, though. It’s the diseases they carry.

These are the Contagion Collectors. Their aim is to destroy devil-gods by killing off those who would worship them — virtually everyone alive beneath the Dome.

And it all started in the European year 1284 with the Rat Catcher of Hamelin.

Text and cover preparation by Jim McPherson, 2010
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Front and Back Cover for "Janna Fangfingers"

James H McPherson, Publisher. Text and cover preparation by Jim McPherson, 2011.

Notes on many of the images that went into this cover collage can be found here. The back cover blurb is here. Lynx leading to a partial list of excerpts from the novel can be found here.

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Phantacea Publications (James H. McPherson, Publisher) presents the third and final mini-novel comprising "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"

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

Notes on many of the images that went into this cover collage can be found here. The back cover blurb is here.

Cover preparation by Jim McPherson, 2011

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All-Death Day

1 Maruta, 5494 Year of the Dome

Nearly twenty years after Thrygragos Everyman and his firstborn Unities routed the Contagion Collectors, the bringers of death no longer presented a problem.

The lingering poxes and plagues they brought were an entirely different matter, however.

The Hidden Headworld needed purging in the worst way. No one denied that. Yet Star Sedon evinced no signs of returning to the night’s sky and Thrygragos Everyman would never countenance such a catastrophic command.

Then someone played a Trigregos Gambit and the worst way became the only way.

As by far the mightiest devil-gods on the Whole Earth went at each other unrelentingly, unmindful of those they trampled beneath their gargantuan feet, the populace lost faith in their tarnished Shining Ones with calamitous rapidity.

The Dead didn’t stay dead. They rose, disbelievers no longer. They battled on, their newly puissant goddess to exalt the higher.

Came All-Death Day there were more Dead Things marching back to war than Living Beings breathing.

Fecundity no longer, the Vampire Queen of the Dead prepared herself to rule the world – both sides of it!

Covers, interior collages and a bonus, book-specific character companion prepared by the author, Jim McPherson.

©copyright 1977 - 2011 Jim McPherson
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The background image for this page is taken from part of a black and white collage/cover I prepared for War-Pox's 1000-Daze bonus chapter; as also per here I did a colour version of it as well; a perhaps too busy variant is here; also on this page a light greenish version can be seen here; an even lighter version of it can be seen here; double-click on the images in this panel for blow-ups of the page backgrounds. Return to the image rollovers here.

Some of the shots that went into these collages can also be seen here and here; here and here provide hints as to the identities of three mainly minor players in 'Contagion Collectors' (and hence also "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"); there's an explicit spoiler here and here as to their identities; as for why Durer's 4 Horsemen remind me of Thrygragos Lazareme and his firstborn Unities, that's here; many of the images referred to in this panel reappear on the Characters Companion page for 1000-Daze.
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