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Who is Dr. Terwilliker?
Dr Terwiliker is a reference to The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, an 1953 American musical fantasy film about a boy who dreams himself into a fantasy world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher enslaving children to practice piano forever. It was the only feature…
The Music of the Calliope
The Music of the Calliope Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures The Calliope in Johannes Cabal, The Necromancer plays a haunting and curious piece of music that Johannes Cabal is uncertain about. It turns out that this piece of music exists: Manège by Lasry-Baschet A little bit of…
The Druin’s Stolen Book
An Antiquarian, a gangster, and a woman with a lisp walk into a bar From the Plantagenet years onwards, the Druins were said to be capable of swapping from Protestant to Roman Catholic and back again within the period of a single church service. Indeed,…
The .577 Webly
Want to know more about Cabal’s favourite gun? A canon is more like it! The Webley .577 is a gun that doesn’t mess around. It is meant to stop everything dead… or undead. Original source: https://www.historicalfirearms.info/ The Webley No.1 was one of a number of…
Lucifuge Rofocale
Lucifuge Rofocale The Book of Ceremonial Magic I was curious to find out if the conjuration that Cabal uses to call upon Lucifuge Rofocale was based in fiction or pulls from a real source. After doing some research on the names used in the conjuration,…
Illusionists vs Occultists
Illusionists vs Occultists In Exeunt Demon King there is an interesting passage: “Show me a stage magician who values the writings of Dee over Houdin, the works of Simon Magus over John Maskelyne, and I shall show you a disaster in the making.” We wanted…
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A Book order of the Johannes Cabal Series The reading order for the NecRomancer’s Deathcast Want to follow along? Here is a list of the order the podcast will take in the series. Caution, there are some minor spoilers in some of the book descriptions.
Who is Dr. Terwilliker?
Dr Terwiliker is a reference to The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, an 1953 American musical fantasy film about a boy who dreams himself into a fantasy world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher enslaving children to practice piano forever. It was the only feature Read More …