Talk:The Number of Darkness/@comment-25073641-20160427224110/@comment-26030957-20160428015801

It's never too late to comment. I'm very pleased you liked it; it is one of my personal favorites.

Sorry my friend, I did not base Charles Cooperton on you.

He was based on a certain Charles Cooper I came across while doing research, who really did come to Humboldt County from Canada in the 1860's to start a mill, only to find himself in the middle of the infamous Indian Wars.

[Here] is a link if you are curious. Read it and you will also see that butter really did cost a dollar a pound and pork really was fifty cents a pound, something another reader found implausible.

If I put you into a story it would involve a talented young artist from the Philippines whose interest in the dark and paranormal led him to a dangerous secret society of misfit writers. Hmmm, that sounds good, maybe I'll write you into a story.