Janna Fangfingers - Softcover

McPherson, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978134273 ISBN 13: 9780978134273

Publisher: Phantacea, 2011

Synopsis

Contagion Collectors aimed to destroy the Inner Earth's Shining Ones, their devil-gods, by killing off those who would worship them - virtually everyone alive beneath the Cathonic Dome that enclosed the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head. Thrygragos Everyman and his firstborn Unities thought them sorted when they stormed the Hoodoo Hamlet in 5476 as the four fearsome Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And so they had ... except, it wasn't just the bringers who needed sorting. It was the poxes and plagues they brought. The Hidden Headworld needed purging. There could be no doubt of that. Yet the Moloch Sedon had disappeared from the night's sky years earlier and evinced no signs of returning. Everyone knew what needed to be done yet no one, especially not Thrygragos Everyman, the Lord Laziest of Great Gods, was willing to command the purge begun. Then someone, ostensibly in the name of love, played a Trigregos Gambit. The Head lost its Balance, capitalized and female. Her brother Unities, Order and Chaos, regarded each other balefully. No longer restrained, a continental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions ensued. With calamitous rapidity, nearly 500 years of Panharmonium gave way to seemingly endless despair. The Inner Earth's populace lost faith in its devil-gods as by far the mightiest of them went at each other unrelentingly, unmindful of those they trampled beneath their gargantuan feet. The Dead didn't stay dead, though. 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 than Living Beings breathing. Fecundity no longer, the Vampire Queen of the Dead looked to rule the world - both sides of it!

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From the Back Cover

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!

About the Author

Jim McPherson wrote and published the 6-issue series of PHANTACEA comic books from 1977 until 1980. He also wrote and published a PHANTACEA Phase One comic book in 1986 and the graphic novel entitled "Forever & 40 Day - The Genesis of PHANTACEA" in 1990. A number of mostly Canadian or British-born illustrators provided the artwork for these publications.

Since that time he has web-serialized a number of novels as well as published two full-length novels and three mini-novels featuring the PHANTACEA Mythos, which he describes variously as either Anheroic Fantasy or Modern Day Mythology.

"Janna Fangfingers" is the final mini-novel comprising "The Thousand Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy. The main story is recounted by one of its deviant survivors, albeit nearly 500 years later in 5980 Year of the Dome. The story of the storyteller and some of his friends and acquaintances in 5980 can be considered a prequel to the Launch 1980 story cycle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phantacea
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0978134273
• ISBN 13: 9780978134273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Illustrator: McPherson Jim