Just a quick update: I just signed the publication contract with I Ain’t Your Marionette Press, so we’ve finished yet another step to publication. Here’s the next Week in Pandemonium History.

August 12, 1934—Alcatraz, the infamous federal penitentiary, opens 1.5 miles off San Francisco Bay. Among the first prisoners is infamous bootlegger and Cosa Nostra Associate, Frankie “Six Toes” White, a Witch from Pandemonium’s southwest side who assisted Al Capone and the Five Families with their illegal distillery operations for years.

August 13, 1991—Assistant Satanic Priest Acton Ravenwood discovers the bones of a Pterodactyl right off the eastern Coast of Pandemonium Island. Paleontologists claim these are actually the bones of local birds which flew directly into the cliff wall of the island, but Ravenwood sells the bones in the Satanic Temple gift shop as dinosaur bones anyway, getting $50 a pop.

August 14, 1973—Local businessmen attempt to organize a youth music festival on Pandemonium Island, which falls apart when one of the organizers sees the Ze’ev transform on the full moon. Locals worry about exposure, but the witness soon attributes it to a “bad trip.”

August 15, 1804—The Witches accuse the Fieldhands of conducting an arcane ceremony to gain their freedom, in imitation of the slaves of Haiti, which later turns out to be wedding. Mass hysteria turns to relief, as the populace takes comfort that only white men worship evil forces on this particular island.

August 16, 1927—The Dole Air Race begins in Oakland, California, with an intended destination in Honolulu Hawaii. Among the nine participants is Stranger John Ferguson. He is also among the seven participants who die on the way there.

August 17, 1884—Famed architect, John Jameson Jefferson, is born on the southwestern side of Pandemonium to a Fieldhand family. Jefferson moves to Chicago to escape life in the South and starts his own firm, responsible for many architectural marvels. Unfortunately, he dies young in 1924 when a servant of his sets his home on fire while he is sleeping, killing him and seven others.

August 18, 1783—A meteor approaches Pandemonium, appearing as a huge fireball. The Strangers assume it to be a wicked act by the Witches, until the fireball lands directly in Satanic High Priest Tiberius Blackthorne’s flower garden, burning it and his guest house to ashes. The Strangers reason that if the Witches conjured that spell, then they apparently aren’t good at magic.