Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Author, Editor, Hovercraft Enthusiast. THE NIGHTSHADE CABAL released 2020 by Parliament House Press. Best First Novel finalist, Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence. (He/Him)

Image shows the cover of The Nightshade Cabal against a chalkboard background with a light blue skull. Captions read: "Victorian Era Mayhem and Mystery, Thrilling Inventions, Reanimated Corpses, Found Family, Dueling Spellcasters, Canadian Setting, Surly Fae, and Award Nominated."
Cover art for the novel Far-Seer by Robert J Sawyer shows a dinosaur-like character holding a telescope and navigation tools.
Olaf sings Berserker while Silent Bob watches in silence. Caption: "My love for you is like a truck, berserker!"
Image shows the cover of The Nightshade Cabal against a chalkboard background with a light blue skull. Captions read: "Victorian Era Mayhem and Mystery, Thrilling Inventions, Reanimated Corpses, Found Family, Dueling Spellcasters, Canadian Setting, Surly Fae, and Award Nominated."
a Microsoft Paint window with text reading "If your book cover is A I, I won't be reading it"
A screenshot from a news broadcast shows an outdoor Halloween scene with jack-o-lanterns and trees in the background behind a cloaked figure with a skeletal face and hands. The caption below reads "Yikes! Stay Tuned"
The cover art for On Spec Magazine issue 134, "Dancing with the Holly King" by Janice Blaine.
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Oh no I've been blocked by @why.bsky.team probably because of my controversial opinions about AI being the skidmarks on the internet's tightie whiteys.
In this still frame from Clerks: the Animated Series, Patrick Ewing celebrates a successful jump shot in front of cheering fans.
Pencil sketch of Isaac Barrow and Emily Skye from the novel The Nightshade Cabal, as rendered by the writer Chris Patrick Carolan.
Image shows the cover of The Nightshade Cabal against a chalkboard background with a light blue skull. Captions read: "Victorian Era Mayhem and Mystery, Thrilling Inventions, Reanimated Corpses, Found Family, Dueling Spellcasters, Canadian Setting, Surly Fae, and Award Nominated."
Homer Simpson, bleary-eyed and wearing headphones, sits up in bed and says "The Vernal Equinox?"
Root vegetable growing bags in various colours, featuring a "quick access" velcro flap on the side.
Principal Skinner stands in front of a broken window, with Cardi B's face superimposed over his mug, saying "It's the Hamiltonians who are wrong."
Exterior view of Ursula's cabin, from Kiki's Delivery Service.
Image shows the cover of a book titled "Knives, Knife Fighting & Related Hassles" by Marc 'Animal' MacYoung. The author is pictured on the cover.
At some sort of outdoor event like a fair, a man (most likely) is fired out of a cannon, misses the crash mat, and lands in the dirt.
The first page of 'Seven for a Secret' as published in On Spec Magazine. Text Reads: Blurb: “I’ve seen too much strangeness in my years to deny the ab-natural out of hand, but I’ve never been one to take omens to heart,” Hallett said. “For all I know, a sign like the color of the sky is meant for some other arsehole twenty leagues away.” He spat on the deck all the same. SEVEN FOR A SECRET Chris Patrick Carolan Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1778. Odd-Eyes Mullin was still swinging from the gallows, naught but a ten-minute walk from the stinking wharfside tavern where Captain Ollie Hallett raised a tankard to his second mate’s memory. Mullin had always boasted how his left eye, bright and blue as the waters off Nassau, turned away evil and let him see danger coming a mile away. Whether it was the truth or simply superstition, in the end it had done him no good. The crows would have both his eyes—the uncanny blue, and its brown mate so dark it looked almost black—out by morning. The rest of his corpse would be left to hang until natural decay let it fall from the rope like an overripe apple, a warning to any man who might find himself inclined toward unsanctioned acts of piracy. Or any woman, for that matter, Hallett mused, his eyes slipping to Elise Dawes as he sipped his ale. Not that such warnings are often given much heed.
Black and white pencil illustration of Isaac Barrow and Emily Skye from The Nightshade Cabal. He wears a suit and bowler hat, she wears overalls with her choppy red hair all askew.
Black and white pencil illustration of Isaac Barrow and Emily Skye from The Nightshade Cabal. He wears a suit and bowler hat, she wears overalls with her choppy red hair all askew.
Images shows a screenshot from Kickstarter displaying the fully funded campaign for Tyche Books Fascination anthology.
Animated Simpsons GIF. Bart turns to Homer and says "What happened to you, Google? You used to be cool."
Seymour Skinner seen through a frame of broken glass, pauses in an apparent moment of self-reflection. He almost grasps understanding, but the moment will prove to be fleeting, lost like tears in the rain.
Image shows the cover of The Nightshade Cabal against a chalkboard background with a light blue skull. Captions read: "Victorian Era Mayhem and Mystery, Thrilling Inventions, Reanimated Corpses, Found Family, Dueling Spellcasters, Canadian Setting, Surly Fae, and Award Nominated."
Image of text mimicking a newspaper editorial title. Text reads "Opinion: Here's why it would be a mistake to do anything that inconveniences rich assholes, by Some Rich Asshole."
Animated image: Homer Simpson pulls a copy of Action Comics #1 out of a box, declares it to be "Junk!" and tosses it aside.
The Transgender flag bearing the words "This Bill Will Kill," in reference to Bill 9, the so-called "Protecting Alberta’s Children Statutes Amendment Act" which invokes the Notwithstanding Clause to prevent court challenges.
Cover art for The Nightshade Cabal by Chris Patrick Carolan. Image shows a mail figured dressed in black, with his back to the viewer. A Victorian city scene in the background is shrouded in mist. Caption reads "Only the dead know the secrets of the Cabal..." A Crime Writers of Canada 2021 Awards of Excellence Finalist badge has been added.
Grandpa Simpson hanging an American flag on a wall, saying: "I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Hawaii, Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, and Montana."
Witch Candies: individually wrapped taffy-like treats, dressed in orange waxed paper decorated with witches, bats, and spooky trees. Horrid.
Cover art for The Nightshade Cabal by Chris Patrick Carolan. Image shows a mail figured dressed in black, with his back to the viewer. A Victorian city scene in the background is shrouded in mist. Caption reads "Only the dead know the secrets of the Cabal..." A Crime Writers of Canada 2021 Awards of Excellence Finalist badge has been added.
The first page of The Nightshade Cabal. Text Reads: HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, 1881 "I’m telling you, Jonathon, these so-called stage magicians are nothing more than charlatans and hucksters of the highest order.” Isaac Barrow said, raising his voice to be heard over the din of the crowded Theatre Royale. "The act is nothing but mirrors and wires and other trickery making you think you've seen something you haven’t.” Inspector Jonathon Eddings chuckled heartily, shaking his head. "And I keep telling you, Barrow, being fooled is the whole point of the bloody show!” Fifteen years in Halifax had done little to blunt the edge of his thick Mancunian brogue. His friend’s retort failed to quell Barrow's annoyance. The inspector's invitation had had all the cordiality of a press gang. Eddings had bought the tickets to thank Barrow for his help with a recent investigation. He hadn’t skimped, either; they sat just three rows back of the orchestra pit. The notion of putting down hard-earned coin with the express intention of being hoodwinked by some sham of a magician struck Barrow as inordinately foolish. He knew of the occult and the dangers of flirting with its deadly secrets. Real magic being his stock-in-trade, he considered the pretend variety, popular on stage, mildly offensive at best. It was only on his friend's repeated insistence that he had finally, against his own better judgement, agreed to attend the performance.
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A black and white image from The Twilight Zone. The camera pans downward to reveal Rod Serling looking over the top of a curved wall. He says "No logic, no reason, no explanation... just a prolonged nightmare."
A diagram from a medical textbook titled Skeleton Parts, Identified. A single arrow points to the skeleton, labelled simply "bones." This is not inaccurate.
Henry Jones (Sean Connery) catches a Nazi officer by the wrist and says "Goose stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them."
Screenshot of an email from LinkedIn, encouraging human writers to train their AI replacements. Subject line reads "The AI Training Company is hiring a Freelance English Writer"
Movie poster for SIMONE (stylized as S1M0NE). A blonde woman, pictured larger than life, clutches her shoulder as it dissolves into pixels. A suited man in the corner looks up at her. Caption reads "A star is... created."
The first page of The Nightshade Cabal. Text Reads: HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, 1881 "I’m telling you, Jonathon, these so-called stage magicians are nothing more than charlatans and hucksters of the highest order.” Isaac Barrow said, raising his voice to be heard over the din of the crowded Theatre Royale. "The act is nothing but mirrors and wires and other trickery making you think you've seen something you haven’t.” Inspector Jonathon Eddings chuckled heartily, shaking his head. "And I keep telling you, Barrow, being fooled is the whole point of the bloody show!” Fifteen years in Halifax had done little to blunt the edge of his thick Mancunian brogue. His friend’s retort failed to quell Barrow's annoyance. The inspector's invitation had had all the cordiality of a press gang. Eddings had bought the tickets to thank Barrow for his help with a recent investigation. He hadn’t skimped, either; they sat just three rows back of the orchestra pit. The notion of putting down hard-earned coin with the express intention of being hoodwinked by some sham of a magician struck Barrow as inordinately foolish. He knew of the occult and the dangers of flirting with its deadly secrets. Real magic being his stock-in-trade, he considered the pretend variety, popular on stage, mildly offensive at best. It was only on his friend's repeated insistence that he had finally, against his own better judgement, agreed to attend the performance.
Black and what image of the face on Mars.
Cover art for the Baen edition of PRINCE OF THE NORTH shows Gerin and Van facing off against a longtooth in the woods. Art by Larry Elmore. I've owned this copy for close to 30 years and have read it countless times, as evidenced by the wear on the cover and binding.
The Doctor, THE Doctor, and the War Doctor.
Animated GIF from Teen Girl Squad. A character says "I have a crush on every boy!" A man's very large face with arrows coming out of his mouth appears and says "Arrowed!"
An unfinished pencil sketch of the characters Isaac Barrow and Emily Skye from The Nightshade Cabal, drawn by biological human writer and sometimes artist Chris Patrick Carolan (signed here as Caro).
Screenshot from the Oxford English Dictionary. Text reads: "Where does the verb shrug come from? Earliest known use Middle English. The earliest known use of the verb shrug is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for shrug is from around 1440, in Promptorium Parvulorum."
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