Magic Monday

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Midnight has arrived, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after that point will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 267,446th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.2 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. 

Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says.  And further:  I've decided that questions about getting goodies from spirits are also permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

The image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week.  This was my fifty-fourth published book, the conclusion of The Weird of Hali. It had its genesis, in a certain sense, decades earlier, when I read Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series of fantasies for older children. The first four books in the sequence -- The Dark is Rising; Over Sea, Under Stone; Greenwitch; and The Grey King -- were first-rate, vivid fantasies that drew on British folklore and legend to chronicle a tale of warring magical forces in modern Britain. I adored them and read them over and over again.

Then came the final book in the sequence, Silver On The Tree, which I read once to my bitter disappointment and never touched again. The grand final struggle between the Light and the Dark reached its grand anticlimax in a scene just a few pages long, and then all the wizards and magical beings packed their bags and went away forever, leaving the other characters sitting in the prosaic modern world. Cooper might as well have said in so many words, "All right, children, playtime is over, now forget all about magic and wonder and go back to your boring lives." I never forgave her for that, and many years passed before I read any of her books again.

So when I found myself writing a story that in some ways approximated The Dark is Rising series -- well, as seen through a tentacular funhouse mirror -- I promised myself from the beginning that I wouldn't do the same thing to my readers. You'll notice on the cover the image of Great Cthulhi rising from the sea. In Arkham, the stars are right at last, and nothing will ever be the same again. Interested? You can get a copy here if you live in the US and here elsewhere.

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I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

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With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***