Book One: The Cold Peace
“It doesn’t matter what you believe, so long as you don’t believe it completely.”
—Bertrand Russell
Chapter One: Allison Kinsey in an Exciting Adventure With the New Humans
Chapter Two: Message in the Flames
Chapter Three: Gabriel Over the White House
Chapter Five: Greetings, Fellow Humans
Chapter Six: The Lion, the Witch, and the Barn
Chapter Seven: Shall I Lose Twice?
Chapter Eight: Beyond These Fields We Know
Chapter Nine: The Powerless of This World
Chapter Eleven: The Singular Elsa
Chapter Twelve: Some Mother’s Son
Chapter Thirteen: The Most Startling Supervillain of All!
Chapter Fourteen: The Miracle at Parliament House
Chapter Fifteen: Waters Clear and Dark
Chapter Sixteen: The Glass Forest
Chapter Seventeen: The Naming of Cats
Chapter Eighteen: Full Fathom Five Thy Father Dwells
Chapter Nineteen: Wake in Fright
Chapter Twenty: Now My Charms Are All O’erthrown
Chapter Twenty-One: The Battle of Avon Valley
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Quiet Room
First Intermission
“Now the Virgin returns, the reign of Saturn returns; now a new generation descends from heaven on high. Only do you, pure Lucina, smile on the birth of the child, under whom the iron brood shall at last cease and a golden race spring up throughout the world!”
—Virgil.
Strange Things on the Side of the Road
Book Two: Titanomachy
“He does not live in a dark lonely tower by the sea, from which are heard the screams of vivisected men and women. On the contrary, he lives in Mayfair.”
—G.K Chesterton.
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Marvellous Reinvention of Allison Kinsey
Chapter Twenty-Four: Married Days
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Night Watch
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Most Startling Superhero of All!
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The New Child
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Adam and the New Humans
Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Reefs of Sound
Chapter Thirty: Mabel Henderson’s on the Case!
Chapter Thirty-Three: Still Waters
Chapter Thirty-Five: The Battle of the Rabbit Hatch
Chapter Thirty-Six: Backwards Day
Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Angel of Danzig
Chapter Thirty-Eight: By These Hands…
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Heal Thyself!
Chapter Forty: Damnatio Memoriae, or, True November
Chapter Forty-One: The Sleeper Awakes
Chapter Forty-Two: The Gold Rush
Chapter Forty-Three: Five Go Mad in Northam
Chapter Forty-Four: This Machine Kills Supervillains
Chapter Forty-Five: The Bellows of Giants
Chapter Forty-Six: The Girl Who Fell to Earth
Chapter Forty-Seven: Origin Story
Chapter Forty-Eight: The Prime of Miss Therese Fletcher
Chapter Forty-Nine: Formicarius
Chapter Fifty-One: Ulysses in Northam
Chapter Fifty-Two: No Enemy Shall Gather Our Harvest
Chapter Fifty-Three: The Shoal
Chapter Fifty-Four: These are the Damned
Chapter Fifty-Five: …And Hell Rode Behind Her
Second Intermission
“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”
—Pablo Neruda
Book Three: This Hollow Season
“On the shoreless deeps of the seas of gloom
Sailing, we venture afar and wide,
Where ever await the tempests of doom,
Where the silent maelstroms lurk and hide,
And the darkling reefs abide.”
—Clark Ashton Smith
Chapter Fifty-Six: The Brauronia of Allison Kinsey
Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Bacchanal at Harvey Dam
Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Whaleboat
Chapter Fifty-Nine: An American Warlock in Avon Valley
Chapter Sixty: A Feast of Tribes
Chapter Sixty-Two: The House Without Windows
Chapter Sixty-Four: The Third Way
Chapter Sixty-Five: The Wolf Cub
Chapter Sixty-Six: Of Bottled Boys and Mermaids
Chapter Sixty-Seven: The Ship Moves
Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Metropolitans
Chapter Sixty-Nine: A Red Halo
Chapter Seventy: The Rumble at Royal Exhibition Building
Chapter Seventy-One: The Third Man
Chapter Seventy-Two: You and Us
Chapter Seventy-Three: The Man From Earth
Chapter Seventy-Four: Of His Bones Are Coral Made
Chapter Seventy-Five: Allie and Miri
Chapter Seventy-Six: Red Glare
Chapter Seventy-Seven: The God Beneath the Sea
Chapter Seventy-Eight: There Will be No Darkness
Chapter Eighty: The Adventures of Saint Josephine
Chapter Eighty-One: Mistress Quickly and the Maestros of Evil!
Chapter Eighty-Two: He Had Wings
Chapter Eighty-Three: The Übermensch Hunt
Chapter Eighty-Four: Prisoner of the Sea
Chapter Eighty-Five: The Comet’s Wake
Chapter Eighty-Six: Purgatorium
Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Supervillain Liberation Front
Chapter Eighty-Eighty: The Garden of Earthly Delights
Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Harrowing
Chapter Ninety-One: The March of the Superheroes
Third Intermission
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”
—J.M Barrie
Blair and Linda Meet the New England Warlock
Book Four: The Utopians
“It is my sincere wish that you do not give up your search for Eden. I have no doubt but that you will find it, or make it yourselves.”
—Leonard Nimoy
Chapter Ninety-Two: Allison Kinsey in the Big Ten
Chapter Ninety-Three: The Mirror People
Chapter Ninety-Four: Cloudsong
Chapter Ninety-Five: The Way to Catalpa
Chapter Ninety-Six: Atalanta and Clymene
Chapter Ninety-Seven: Changelings
Chapter Ninety-Eight: Tiger-Sharks
Chapter Ninety-Nine: Make Way for Miri
Chapter One-Hundred: The Singular Elsa’s Christmas Spectacular!
Chapter One-Hundred One: Wanton as Water
Chapter One-Hundred Two: Some Children do Wander
Chapter One-Hundred Three: Charivari
Chapter One-Hundred Four: A War of Jokes and Spells
Chapter One-Hundred Five: David and Brit and Brit and David…
Chapter One-Hundred Six: A Mirror for Superheroes
Chapter One-Hundred Seven: Reflections in Gold
Chapter One-Hundred Eight: Become Impossible
Chapter One-Hundred Nine: The Arrows of the Sun
Chapter One-Hundred Ten: The Special Relationship
Chapter One-Hundred Eleven: The Phare
Chapter One-Hundred Twelve: The Dragon of Bròn Binn
Chapter One-Hundred Thirteen: A Cavourite Knight
Chapter One-Hundred Fourteen: The Tiger of Albion
Chapter One-Hundred Fifthteen: The Matter of Catalpa
Chapter One-Hundred Sixteen: St. George and the Vampire
Chapter One-Hundred Seventeen: The Forest of London
Chapter One-Hundred Eighteen: Camlann
Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen: The Riddle of Myrddin
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty: The Fisher Wizard
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-One: Dispatches From Tomorrow
Informational
A note on the recent hiatus and other developments (1/09/2020)