While we are talking about Christmas in Pandemonium, I should note that I’m putting the final touches on the first draft of the sequel. I actually plan to write a seven-book series. Here’s this week in Pandemonium Nov. 18-24

November 18, 1880—Elizabeth Davis, a Witch, is arrested for attempting to vote illegally the Pandemonium Town Meeting Hall, as South Carolina had not approved women’s suffrage at that time. Of course, given that she was 12 at the time, Elizabeth Davis would not likely be allowed to vote today.

 November 19, 1863—Abraham Lincoln gives the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg. Pandemonians will die fighting for both sides of the civil war. Col. Robert Davis of Pandemonium serves under Gen. Lee at Gettysburg.

November 20, 1968—Pandemonium becomes the first city in the southeast to install a computerized traffic light. Visitors from other towns in South Carolina, normally there to protest the Satanic Temple, proclaim it to be witchcraft.

November 21, 1877—Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, notable here only because Fieldhand inventor Ely Jameson claims to have created one two years earlier, only to have Edison steal his idea.

November 22, 1963—President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. It is reported, inaccurately, that Witch children at Bothwell school, a segregated institution, cheer when they hear the news. Satanic High Priest Blaise Jackson, a staunch opponent of integration, offers a spell of healing to the Kennedy family at the next Satanic ritual and lectures the press on telling sensationalist lies in his sermon.

November 23, 1920—Dravidius Ravenwood goes into business as “pharmacist” selling “medicinal liquor” during the height of prohibition. While this practice is greatly restricted by the federal government soon thereafter, Ravenwood’s pharmacy is soon the busiest place in town. He later builds a speakeasy in the back of his establishment.

November 24, 1717—The infamous pirate Edward Teach, commonly known as Blackbeard, makes port in Pandemonium to deal with some Stranger smugglers who took what he considered to be his booty. David Fincher is tied to the front of the Queen Anne’s revenge as it sails back out to sea while Teach takes Fincher’s fifteen year old daughter as his wife.