Talk:The Number of Darkness/@comment-25052433-20150722023152/@comment-26030957-20150729010036

Yes, I did do a bit of research on this story. And yes, all those texts of Grimories that the priest had are real books on demonology. The concept of Cambions is real as well.

I spent two weeks doing research on the history of the pioneers in Northern California. Here are a few of the texts I read: Indian Wars of The North West: A California Sketch by A. J. Bledsdoe, Domesticate or Exterminate: The California Indian Treaties by Chad Hoopes, In the Land of The Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed, Humboldt History Volume One: Two Peoples One Place by Ray Raphael, In the Early Days: Southern Humboldt History 1853-1920 by Margarite Cook, Both Sides of the Bluff: History of Humboldt County Places by Jerry Rohde. I also spent many hours in the research room of the Humboldt Historical Society. Seman Wright and E. L. Davis were real people who started a militia called The Humboldt Volunteers. They did petition the governor to be made a legitimate militia and were turned down. Also, Federal troops were promised but not delivered because of the outbreak of the Civil War.

I must say that I am extremely disappointed to hear you say that you believe Oprah wouldn’t feature my work in her book club. She featured Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, an extremely disturbing novel about cannibalism in a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape. Push by Sapphire is a harrowing tale of incest that makes my story look like a children’s book. She also featured one of my favorite books of all time, Andres Dubus’ House of Sand and Fog, a bleak and disturbing story. While not horrific, she also featured both The Corrections and Freedom by Johnathan Franzen another of my favorite authors.