Authorpreneur Dashboard – DL Mackenzie
The Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum
Science Fiction & Fantasy
In this first novelette of the series The Magnetron Chronicles, we are introduced to Phineas J. Magnetron, an eccentric Nineteenth Century inventor blessed with a strange gift he doesn't completely understand. As a former soldier and current member of the Hogalum Society, an inscrutable secret organization of crime fighting adventurers, Phineas is no stranger to peril and derring-do. But when the Society founder dies, Phineas embarks on a daring and improbable caper to bring the good doctor's greatest dream to fruition posthumously. In the process, he not only horrifies his Society brothers, but unearths a haunting and compelling mystery.
Book Bubbles from The Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum
Waking the Dead
Magnetron's narrative has been rather cagey thus far, but with the arrival of his old friend Petión, the bizarre secret plan begins to unfold and take shape for the reader. In addition to losing his memory, Magnetron has also gained the ability to see snippets of the future while he dreams, both as a result of a Civil War injury. In Magnetron's time, the American Civil War was still typically referred to as "The War Between the States." Generally speaking, a houngan is a voodoo practitioner. A bokor is a houngan who practices black magic, especially reanimating the dead as zombies.
Magnetron Crosses the Rubicon
In a pitch black Richmond cemetery, our hero sets his bizarre plan into motion with the help of two former Confederate soldiers. Soon, their unusual activity attracts some unwanted attention... Although he is a Confederate soldier, the character General Southwick was actually inspired by Hiroo Onoda, the Imperial Japanese soldier who didn't believe the Second World War was over and refused to surrender for decades. The Thoreau quotation mentioned in this passage is repeated in a more literal sense much later in the book.
Magnetron Speaks
This is the opening few paragraphs of the book, in which the narrator begins his journal by assuring the reader that the incredible story to follow is in fact true.
