More shameless promo for the Autumn 2009 edition of phantacea.com

Welcome. Or welcome back, as the case may be. And, no, I haven't all of a sudden got a severe case of the blues. Nevertheless, at the risk of repeating myself:

The gods and goddesses, the demons and monsters, of ancient mythologies have been trivialized, their worship proscribed and the entities themselves mostly confined to another realm. Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos chronicles their ongoing battles.

Set primarily on Mithramas 4376 Year of the Dome (Christmas Day 376 AD), "Feeling Theocidal" told many of these tales. Foremost -- and from an eclectic, not to mention at times decidedly exotic, variety of perspectives (very few of them, um, heroic) -- was that of Thrygragon. For devazurkind, it proved perhaps the singly most important event in Whole Earth history since Xuthros Hor, the Biblical Noah, caused the Genesea.

Culminating in just that (aka the Great Flood of Genesis), the graphic novel, "Forever & 40 Days - the Genesis of PHANTACEA", recounted many others, about half of them pre-Earth. (Of some significance, one is nothing less than the PHANTACEA version of the origin of the Devil Himself.)

"The War of the Apocalyptics", the latest in what looks to be a long line of PHANTACEA Mythos print publications, brings their saga into the final fifth of the Twentieth Century our time (the Sixtieth Century of the Dome). Back cover bluster promises what War-Pox delivers:

"From the creator of the PHANTACEA Mythos and the writer of ‘Feeling Theocidal’ comes Fallen Angel Devils, comes unrelenting Action, comes the Damnation Brigade, comes the first book of the Launch 1980 cycle."

phantacea.com is the only website thus far dedicated entirely to print publications featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos. Unless noted differently in the text or image mouse-overs, everything you see is written, photographed, scanned-in and/or otherwise prepared by Jim McPherson.

All sorts of ever-so-pertinent lynx to all sorts of often impertinent webpages, including where its previous Welcoming Page went, can be accessed from here. That's a dot-ditto for Web Publisher's Commentaries preserved in pH-Webworld.

This particular page also contains a table of graphics with lynx to larger views of the same graphics within this or related websites. As where noted on a slowly increasing number of suchlike graphics tables, you can now double-click on the image in order to enlarge it in a separate window.

Should additionally take this opportunity to mention, hardly for the last time, that Lightning Source Inc (LSI) has exclusive rights to distribute both novels. That means individual copies of "Feeling Theocidal" and/or "The War of the Apocalyptics" can be ordered from amazon.com and its affiliates, including amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk, as well as from Barnes & Noble. Click the lynx provided or go to their sites, type Jim McPherson, PHANTACEA, or the novel's name(s) into their search engine and proceed from there.

In much the same way, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through the Ingram Book Company, Ingram International and/or Baker & Taylor. I'm assured that the terms you're used to shall apply.

There's a partial list of LSI's worldwide distribution partners here. I've seen online listings for 'Feel Theo' from as far afield as South Africa, India, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Italy and the UK. A friend of mine in Germany ordered and received it within a few days of doing so; meaning you should be able to order either of the novels wherever you are and in whatever currency you prefer to use.

Or you can email me today and I'll arrange to fill them myself, albeit for a slightly additional cost to cover shipping, tax and customs issues, especially if you reside outside of Canada.

The list price for both novels is $24.00 CDN in Canada and $23.00 USD in the States. As linked from here, the graphic novel, "Forever & 40 Days - the Genesis of PHANTACEA", can be ordered via email from pH-Webworld. It is still being sold at its original list price of $10.00 in both Canada and the USA. Remainder copies of the first four PHANTACEA comic books are also available for $5.00 per comic in both currencies.

An additional cost of 13% on the complete purchase covers Canadian and provincial taxes. Plus, shipping and handling fees are extra. Be forewarned that I can only accept certified cheques and money orders. Sorry, no pay pal or credit cards accepted on this end.

Comments always appreciated. With your permission, I may reproduce some of them somewhere at sometime. Until then, as I used to end off this sort of thing when I was publishing comic books, be pHantacizing you. JMcP