Read The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss Online
Authors: Dennis McKenna
Wade Davis was generous with his valuable time in providing an interview for my Kickstarter project, and also shared his wisdom and experience in the publishing realm with me. I owe him thanks for much, but most importantly for his friendship through the years.
My friend George Douvris also deserves a sincere thanks for providing an interview for the site, and for his enthusiastic support in getting word of the project out to the community of fellow travelers.
I want to give special acknowledgement to those who engineered the “nuts and bolts” of this book. My editor, Jeremiah Creedon, long-suffering, gifted, insightful, brilliant, deserves far more credit than me for sculpting my unwieldy prose into something we’re ready to show to the world. I had no idea when I started out how important it would be to have a good editor covering for me; Jerry has been there for me every step of the way. I want to give a special thanks to Mark Odegard, my best friend in Minnesota. He introduced me to Jerry, and he has applied his considerable skills to designing the layout, the cover, and jacket for this book. Thanks to Mark, this book is a thing of beauty from its cover to the final page. I also owe Mark for urging me to undertake this project in the first place; he pressed me for years, and I finally gave in, and he was always there with an encouraging word. Another close friend, Mac Graham, has given freely of his time and skills as a copy editor and proofreader; many thanks to him for his generous contribution to the process. Thanks are also due to Tom Healy and Mary Ricci for their copyediting and proofing as the final layout took form. Tom and Mary brought their sharp minds and eyes to the task at just the right moment.
I am entirely responsible for any errors in this account, and any inaccuracies in my recollections of people and events, and I’m sure there are a few and perhaps more than a few. I humbly accept any blame that is due and apologize to my readers.
I want to thank Dan Levy, Terence’s former editor, for his suggestion that I try using Kickstarter to secure the funds and time to create this book. It seemed like a crazy idea when we discussed it in December 2010, but it worked better than either of us could have imagined. It was a brilliant idea. I want to thank Seal Dwyer and her team at North Star Press of St. Cloud for handling the production and printing of this book as well as providing invaluable guidance in creating the e-book versions. With their help, and Kickstarter’s, we’ve created a new model for self-publishing that I hope will be an inspiration to others. We also want to extend a special thanks to our friend Keith Cleaversly, an enthusiastic supporter of this project who didn’t hesitate to step into the breach at a most critical juncture. For all that you do and are, Keith, many thanks. The project could not have succeeded without you.
Finally, I want to thank my loyal and patient Kickstarter supporters. Thanks to you, this book exists. I don’t know how it could have happened otherwise. Thanks to you, I discovered that Terence and I are both loved by a vast community of fine, compassionate people who identified with our story, and who stepped in to make it possible to tell it to the wider world. As I promised, the names of those who contributed at the “patron” level are listed below. To all who contributed, I offer my profound gratitude. I humbly offer all of you the fruit of
our
labors and hope that you will find it worthy.
Dennis McKenna
Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota
October 1, 2012
Patrons
Many people helped make this book possible.
Those who contributed at the “patron” level are listed below.
Doug Aanes
Paul Altese
Garth Anderson
Maria Andrade
Christine Andrews
Cat Asche
David Atkinson
Jaron Azaria
Robert Barnhart
Mark Barry
Chris Bava
Ciaran Beahan
Jaime Beauchamp
Greg Bell
Laila Benkrima
Zachariah Bobby
Michael Bock
Galen Bodenhausen
Bryan Bogatz
Richard Boire
Bob Bowman
Josh Bownes
Ollie Boyd
Paula Brown
Ethan S Bruce
George Bruder
Phillip Bryant
Robert Bulterman
Rodney Burge
Sam Burgett
Jeff Bustard
Frank Caligiuri
Andrew Carroll
Sharee Carton
Paul Cheever
Eric Cifani
Matt Clough
Mark Colburn
Jarrett Cole
Rick Connolly
Patrick Couch
Jonathan Crocker
Geo Crosby
Lynne Dablow
Greg Daggett
Mitch Dame
Bruce Damer
Shad Damron
Yaroslaw Darmos
Earl Davis
David De Candia
Jeffery DeCelles
Elke Dehner
Bavid Dirney
Richard Doyle
Wendy Drake
Robb Duncan
Keith Edley
Omar El-Kassaby
Robert Emerson
Stefan Engström
EnTheoSelf
Erowid Center
Juan Escobar
Mathew Evans
Richard Faasen
Mack Faith
Matthew Fauver
Christopher Foley
Michael Fortwengler
Tom Fox
Gordon Freeman
David Gaian
Barbara Ganschow
Nigel Gericke
Indradeep Ghosh
Adam Giangregorio
Damian Glover
Adam Golding
Andrew Gonzalez
Linda Gooding
Art Goodtimes
Elizabeth Gordon
Christopher Gose
Shane Gough
Bill Grable
Zach Grant
Grant Green
George Greer
Nicholas Grenier
Roland Griffiths
Robert Griffitts
Janda Grove
Lorenzo Hagerty
Jason Hall
Colby Ham
Randall Hankins
Jon Hanna
Goni Harlap
John Harrison
Even Hauen
Dereck Hawco
Thomas Healy
Philip Heath
Kody Hedger
Nathaniel Heidler
Kieran Hennelly
Mike Henning
Klas Henriksson
Mark Herbert
Georgina Herman
Dwayne Hickman
Brian Holcomb
Cosmic Hooker
Tim Howe
Jeff Hutner
Sarah Hutt
Adam Jeal
Leonard Jenkins
Matthew Johnson
Phillip Johnson
W. Joling
Phillip Jones
Todd Jones
Theresa Jump
Sid Kalcheim
David Kalugerovich
Matthew Kamp
Darius Karrasavidis
Falco Karrasavidis
Aran Kate
Justin Kirkland
Greg Knight
Thomas Knowlden
John Kokko
Joshua Kostka
Chris Langberg
Colleen Lawson
Hal Lee
Brice Lemke
Dan Levy
Chris Lewis
James Lewis
Robert Lint
William Linton
Judy Livingston
Doug Long
Wiley Long
Noah Lowenstein
Patrick Lundborg
Oliver Lurway
Cynthia Luzius
Coral Mack
Scott Mader
Timus Martinus
Victor Matekole
Chris Mays
Matt Mazur
Alan McCoughtry
Jason McGann
Zac McGehee
John Medeski
Richard Meech
Jeff Merkel
Christopher Mielke
Chris Mighton
Ryan Mills
Spider Miranda
Zevic Mishor
Dariusz Misiuna
Kim Moody
Donna Moon
Stephan Moore
Scott Mossman
Reid Mukai
Eric N
Joe Naab
Ron Nadeau
Laurne Neeff
David Nichols
Grant Nicholson
Joy Nielsen
Odd Nilsen
Shane Noland
Terrence O’Brien
R.J. O’Driscoll
Sean O’Neill
Mark & Elizabeth Odegard
Miklos Oravetz
Garrett Outland
Darrell Pacini
Bridget Palu
Amy Phillips
Tom Pinkson
Daniel Potter
Richard Racette
William Ratterman
Frederick Rawski
Ron Rice
Jeff Ritzmann
Mark Robertson
Richard Rockman
Jakob Roelofs
Benjamin Running
Ethan Russo
Nicolas Sampson
Tommy Sandöy-Blom
Randy Sarbacher
Bill Scheel
Alex Schiller
Simeon Schnapper
Connie Schultz
Sebastians Ghost
Martin Seger
Susanne Seiler
Gregory Sergi
Sa’ad Shah
Remey Shand
Murray Sheret
James Shields
Ellen Shouler-Faith
Stephen Siebert
Diana Slattery
Dariusz Slepczuk
Mike Smethurst
Steve Smith
James Spencer
Christos Stathopoulos
Ian Stehlik
Chris Steinmetz
Robert Stek
Vladimir Stepan
Andy Strieby
Jesse Stroess
Lee Svec
Connie Swan
Jeremy Sylvester
Zsolt Szende
Masayasu Takayama
Alexandre Tannous
Cameron Taylor
Michael Tempesta
Chris Thomson
Rainer Tiedemann
Gareth Tucker
Kenneth Tupper
Fox Ultrafeel
Jon Upton
Robin Vernau
Noah Vickstein
Paul-Alexandru Vida
Julian Vitcetz-Kondas
Joseph Voelbel
Jill Wagner
Rob Waldman
Alex Warren
Andy Warren
Kelvin Weesner
Jonathon Weisberger
Aja West
Jami Whiting
Michael Wiberg
Thomas Wilkenson
Kath Williamson
Jim Wilson
Julie Wissinger
Matthew Wolfson
Bruce Woodside
Warren Wright
Richard Yensen
Jen Zariat
Michael Zehnder
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