The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss (75 page)

Wade Davis was generous with his valuable time in providing an interview for my Kickstarter project, and also shared his wisdom and experience in the publishing realm with me. I owe him thanks for much, but most importantly for his friendship through the years.

My friend George Douvris also deserves a sincere thanks for providing an interview for the site, and for his enthusiastic support in getting word of the project out to the community of fellow travelers.

I want to give special acknowledgement to those who engineered the “nuts and bolts” of this book. My editor, Jeremiah Creedon, long-suffering, gifted, insightful, brilliant, deserves far more credit than me for sculpting my unwieldy prose into something we’re ready to show to the world. I had no idea when I started out how important it would be to have a good editor covering for me; Jerry has been there for me every step of the way. I want to give a special thanks to Mark Odegard, my best friend in Minnesota. He introduced me to Jerry, and he has applied his considerable skills to designing the layout, the cover, and jacket for this book. Thanks to Mark, this book is a thing of beauty from its cover to the final page. I also owe Mark for urging me to undertake this project in the first place; he pressed me for years, and I finally gave in, and he was always there with an encouraging word. Another close friend, Mac Graham, has given freely of his time and skills as a copy editor and proofreader; many thanks to him for his generous contribution to the process. Thanks are also due to Tom Healy and Mary Ricci for their copyediting and proofing as the final layout took form. Tom and Mary brought their sharp minds and eyes to the task at just the right moment.

I am entirely responsible for any errors in this account, and any inaccuracies in my recollections of people and events, and I’m sure there are a few and perhaps more than a few. I humbly accept any blame that is due and apologize to my readers.

I want to thank Dan Levy, Terence’s former editor, for his suggestion that I try using Kickstarter to secure the funds and time to create this book. It seemed like a crazy idea when we discussed it in December 2010, but it worked better than either of us could have imagined. It was a brilliant idea. I want to thank Seal Dwyer and her team at North Star Press of St. Cloud for handling the production and printing of this book as well as providing invaluable guidance in creating the e-book versions. With their help, and Kickstarter’s, we’ve created a new model for self-publishing that I hope will be an inspiration to others. We also want to extend a special thanks to our friend Keith Cleaversly, an enthusiastic supporter of this project who didn’t hesitate to step into the breach at a most critical juncture. For all that you do and are, Keith, many thanks. The project could not have succeeded without you.

Finally, I want to thank my loyal and patient Kickstarter supporters. Thanks to you, this book exists. I don’t know how it could have happened otherwise. Thanks to you, I discovered that Terence and I are both loved by a vast community of fine, compassionate people who identified with our story, and who stepped in to make it possible to tell it to the wider world. As I promised, the names of those who contributed at the “patron” level are listed below. To all who contributed, I offer my profound gratitude. I humbly offer all of you the fruit of
our
labors and hope that you will find it worthy.

Dennis McKenna

Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota

October 1, 2012

Patrons

Many people helped make this book possible.

Those who contributed at the “patron” level are listed below.

Doug Aanes

Paul Altese

Garth Anderson

Maria Andrade

Christine Andrews

Cat Asche

David Atkinson

Jaron Azaria

Robert Barnhart

Mark Barry

Chris Bava

Ciaran Beahan

Jaime Beauchamp

Greg Bell

Laila Benkrima

Zachariah Bobby

Michael Bock

Galen Bodenhausen

Bryan Bogatz

Richard Boire

Bob Bowman

Josh Bownes

Ollie Boyd

Paula Brown

Ethan S Bruce

George Bruder

Phillip Bryant

Robert Bulterman

Rodney Burge

Sam Burgett

Jeff Bustard

Frank Caligiuri

Andrew Carroll

Sharee Carton

Paul Cheever

Eric Cifani

Matt Clough

Mark Colburn

Jarrett Cole

Rick Connolly

Patrick Couch

Jonathan Crocker

Geo Crosby

Lynne Dablow

Greg Daggett

Mitch Dame

Bruce Damer

Shad Damron

Yaroslaw Darmos

Earl Davis

David De Candia

Jeffery DeCelles

Elke Dehner

Bavid Dirney

Richard Doyle

Wendy Drake

Robb Duncan

Keith Edley

Omar El-Kassaby

Robert Emerson

Stefan Engström

EnTheoSelf

Erowid Center

Juan Escobar

Mathew Evans

Richard Faasen

Mack Faith

Matthew Fauver

Christopher Foley

Michael Fortwengler

Tom Fox

Gordon Freeman

David Gaian

Barbara Ganschow

Nigel Gericke

Indradeep Ghosh

Adam Giangregorio

Damian Glover

Adam Golding

Andrew Gonzalez

Linda Gooding

Art Goodtimes

Elizabeth Gordon

Christopher Gose

Shane Gough

Bill Grable

Zach Grant

Grant Green

George Greer

Nicholas Grenier

Roland Griffiths

Robert Griffitts

Janda Grove

Lorenzo Hagerty

Jason Hall

Colby Ham

Randall Hankins

Jon Hanna

Goni Harlap

John Harrison

Even Hauen

Dereck Hawco

Thomas Healy

Philip Heath

Kody Hedger

Nathaniel Heidler

Kieran Hennelly

Mike Henning

Klas Henriksson

Mark Herbert

Georgina Herman

Dwayne Hickman

Brian Holcomb

Cosmic Hooker

Tim Howe

Jeff Hutner

Sarah Hutt

Adam Jeal

Leonard Jenkins

Matthew Johnson

Phillip Johnson

W. Joling

Phillip Jones

Todd Jones

Theresa Jump

Sid Kalcheim

David Kalugerovich

Matthew Kamp

Darius Karrasavidis

Falco Karrasavidis

Aran Kate

Justin Kirkland

Greg Knight

Thomas Knowlden

John Kokko

Joshua Kostka

Chris Langberg

Colleen Lawson

Hal Lee

Brice Lemke

Dan Levy

Chris Lewis

James Lewis

Robert Lint

William Linton

Judy Livingston

Doug Long

Wiley Long

Noah Lowenstein

Patrick Lundborg

Oliver Lurway

Cynthia Luzius

Coral Mack

Scott Mader

Timus Martinus

Victor Matekole

Chris Mays

Matt Mazur

Alan McCoughtry

Jason McGann

Zac McGehee

John Medeski

Richard Meech

Jeff Merkel

Christopher Mielke

Chris Mighton

Ryan Mills

Spider Miranda

Zevic Mishor

Dariusz Misiuna

Kim Moody

Donna Moon

Stephan Moore

Scott Mossman

Reid Mukai

Eric N

Joe Naab

Ron Nadeau

Laurne Neeff

David Nichols

Grant Nicholson

Joy Nielsen

Odd Nilsen

Shane Noland

Terrence O’Brien

R.J. O’Driscoll

Sean O’Neill

Mark & Elizabeth Odegard

Miklos Oravetz

Garrett Outland

Darrell Pacini

Bridget Palu

Amy Phillips

Tom Pinkson

Daniel Potter

Richard Racette

William Ratterman

Frederick Rawski

Ron Rice

Jeff Ritzmann

Mark Robertson

Richard Rockman

Jakob Roelofs

Benjamin Running

Ethan Russo

Nicolas Sampson

Tommy Sandöy-Blom

Randy Sarbacher

Bill Scheel

Alex Schiller

Simeon Schnapper

Connie Schultz

Sebastians Ghost

Martin Seger

Susanne Seiler

Gregory Sergi

Sa’ad Shah

Remey Shand

Murray Sheret

James Shields

Ellen Shouler-Faith

Stephen Siebert

Diana Slattery

Dariusz Slepczuk

Mike Smethurst

Steve Smith

James Spencer

Christos Stathopoulos

Ian Stehlik

Chris Steinmetz

Robert Stek

Vladimir Stepan

Andy Strieby

Jesse Stroess

Lee Svec

Connie Swan

Jeremy Sylvester

Zsolt Szende

Masayasu Takayama

Alexandre Tannous

Cameron Taylor

Michael Tempesta

Chris Thomson

Rainer Tiedemann

Gareth Tucker

Kenneth Tupper

Fox Ultrafeel

Jon Upton

Robin Vernau

Noah Vickstein

Paul-Alexandru Vida

Julian Vitcetz-Kondas

Joseph Voelbel

Jill Wagner

Rob Waldman

Alex Warren

Andy Warren

Kelvin Weesner

Jonathon Weisberger

Aja West

Jami Whiting

Michael Wiberg

Thomas Wilkenson

Kath Williamson

Jim Wilson

Julie Wissinger

Matthew Wolfson

Bruce Woodside

Warren Wright

Richard Yensen

Jen Zariat

Michael Zehnder

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