Chapters
Chapter 1: A Gift from a Prince
Viewpoint Character: Dr. Jonathan Hubbur
Rough Synopsis: I decided to try to write this story in chronological order. This is as early as I want to go. In this chapter Dr. Jonathan Hubbur will be introduced as a young boy having silly adventures in a new boarding school.
Location: This story takes place at Arthyn Academy, an invitational boarding school.
500 Word Synpsis:
A young Jonathan Hubbur arrives at Arthyn Academy in Warwick, Rhode Island. It’s a complex of drab, gray buildings in Neo-Gothic architecture.
Jonathan Hubbur finds himself being bullied by other students between classes in the bathroom, where another student by the name of Stephen Saunders, one of the black students, comes to his rescue. They decide to become close friends.
Jonathan Hubbur continues his reading of the more mystical texts of the Bible alongside his friend Stephen. Stephen shares to his friend that his father is a Freemason who’s been studying Solomonic magic with friends from his lodge and they decide to go to the library to see if they can find any information about it.
Once at the library they meet one of the younger teachers, Dr. Samuel Wulsin, who recognizes both their intellects and their tenacity for studying more bizarre subject matter than what students usually tend to study.
Dr. Hubbur and Stephen Saunders are introduced to one of the esoteric study circles comprised of a few teachers and a small selection of students, who meet regularly in the Estrild Library for instruction.
Together, they go through the grade system of this first esoteric order but Hubbur seems a bit restless and wants to go further along with his studies than he’s allowed. He starts to ask for stranger and stranger texts and one of the teachers starts to become concerned for his safety and sanity.
Jonathan Hubbur attempts an invocation that’s a bit too far beyond his power with a grimoire he found in the library that he shouldn’t have been able to get his hands on. One of the other teachers comes to his rescue, and this teacher turns out to have been the former master of Dr. Wulsin and one of the founding members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
In order to appease the young Hubbur, he begins taking private lessons in magic from the old master of Dr. Wulsin and his friend Stephen Saunders begins to exhibit veiled jealousy and resentment from the special treatment his friend is receiving, while he hasn’t broken any of the rules nor has he been almost possessed by a Goetia demon.
Jonathan Hubbur and Stephen Saunders have their first real fight, using whatever limited magical ability they have against one another, it’s enough for teachers to get involved but by the time they arrive at the scene of the battle the boys seem to have already made up, their bond stronger than ever.
Just for a bit of fun, Hubbur and Saunders decide to start playing practical jokes on other students who belong to other, rival orders at the school. Everything seems to be going fine for the both of them and the teachers seem happy with their progress and potential futures.
Jonathan Hubbur, alone in the Estrild Library at 3:33 AM, has an encounter with an otherworldly intelligence that calls itself Choronzon. They form a pact with one another and Choronzon offers Dr. Hubbur a vision that’ll remain with him for the rest of his life. He’ll spend a lifetime trying to systematically uncover its secrets.
Chapter 2: The Willow Tree
Viewpoint Character: Dr. Jonathan Hubbur
Origin story of Dr. Hubbur's book The Canticle of Satan.
Chapter 3: The Vindex Protocol
Viewpoint Character: Dr. Jonathan Hubbur
Dr. Hubbur meets Dr. Bodin and Dr. Roseberry to work together on a secret government project to stem the rise of Communism in Indonesia.
Chapter 4: Mistakes
Viewpoint Character: Dr. Jonathan Hubbur
Dr. Hubbur breaks things off with Dr. Shively, dating your coworker always goes wrong.
Chapter 5: An Infinite Combat
Viewpoint Character: Jonathan Hubbur
The animosity between Dr. Hubbur and Dr. Bodin boils over and they fight one another with the full extent of their magical powers. I imagine something with creatures coming out of their backs like in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Basically a shonen anime magic fight.
Chapter 6: The Splendor
Viewpoint Character: Jonathan Hubbur
Dr. Hubbur sets out to write his most Qabbalistic text, The Splendor of the Final Harvest, after a mystical experience.
Chapter 7: The Family of the Immortals
Viewpoint Character: Jonathan Hubbur
After fallout from the Vindex Protocol and back from China, Dr. Hubbur meets a mysterious woman and is invited to visit her coven, dedicated to the goddess Shugara. I want this chapter to feel like Silent Hill and/or a Thomas Ligotti story.
Chapter 8: The Mysteries of War
Viewpoint Character: Jonathan Hubbur
Dr. Hubbur has his first meeting with the god Budsturga and on this basis decides to visit China during the Cultural Revolution where he has a chance encounter with a man named Abimael Guzmán.
Chapter X: Dr. Hubbur Meets Dr. Barker
Viewpoint Character: Jonathan Hubbur
This chapter could just be a one-off chapter that I write for fun with no intention of ending up in any final piece. Just something for practice. It could be in Antarctica.
Chapter 9: Breakdown
Viewpoint Character: Jonathan Hubbur
Dr. Hubbur's last paralysing mental breakdown, or mystical experience, however you count it.
Chapter 10: Origins of Shadowside
Viewpoint Character: Greta Voss
Origin story of Greta Voss and her eventual creation of Shadowside BBS.
Chapter 11: Lidagon's Gate
Viewpoint Character: Greta Voss
After Greta Voss's BBS gets more popular she travels out of state to meet members of an occult order centered around science fiction and UFO abduction experiences, possibly related to SETI research?
Chapter 12: The Aeonic Liturgy
Viewpoint Character: Greta Voss
Greta Voss becomes friends with a girl who's a member of the Black Order of the Dragon, a sect of aspiring vampires. They meet at regularly at a goth bar called The Convent.
Chapter 13: Acid House
Viewpoint Character: Greta Voss
A story of Greta Voss doing LSD at an underground rave in New York City. She has a bad trip and has an encounter with one of the deities from Dr. Hubbur's books. Ends with a short description of the rest of her life.
Chapter 14: Altar of Gore
Viewpoint Character: Commissar Murnau
Origin story of Commissar Murnau. He began his occult journey after traumatizing himself with shock sites on the internet and meeting the worst people online.
Chapter 15: Long Live Chairman Gonzalo
Viewpoint Character: Meinhof Pandemonium
This story will be of a member of the Temple of the Red Lodge, probably Meinhof Pandemonium, at a May Day parade in Austin that turned into a riot.
Chapter 16: Sacrificial Ecology
Viewpoint Character: Bruja del Sur
Origin story of Bruja del Sur and her obsession with the sacrificial practices of the ancient Aztecs.
Chapter 17: Becoming-woman
Viewpoint Character: Bruja del Sur
Bruja del Sur transitions with the help of the goddess Binan Ath.
Chapter 18: Disciples of the Lash
Viewpoint Character: Commissar Murnau
Commissar Murnau meets others interested in the works of the Order of the Final Harvest and together they form the Tempel ov Blood.
Chapter 19: The Fungal Labyrinth
Viewpoint Character: Third Person?
Origin story of the Temple of the Red Lodge which culminates in the psychedelic ritual in which all of the members of the Temple of the Red Lodge bound themselves to one another for all eternity.
Chapter 20: Recipe for a Potion
Viewpoint Character: Undecided
One of the members of the Temple of the Red Lodge tries to make a potion from either Noctulius or Lidagon.
Chapter 21: Appalachian Wood
Viewpoint Character: Commissar Murnau
The story of Commissar Murnau traveling to North Carolina to meet with members of the Songun Study Circle to discuss a partnership.
Final Chapter: The Expulsion of Commissar Murnau
Viewpoint Character: Commissar Murnau
Commissar Murnau goes to a club called the Lucid Hollow with members of the Temple of the Red Lodge and the future Satanic Front and gets into a fight while drunk. The next scene is them meeting in the lair of one of the members of the Temple and getting expelled from the order. This is the end of this particular book and the beginning of the next.
Notes to Self
5,600 words: About 14 pages.
4,000 words: About 10 pages.
6,400 words: About 16 pages.
Try to see if I can write an outline that's a fraction of the size of the envisioned novel. 50,000 words would be better but if that's too hard try to aim for around 11,000, that's around an average of 500 words to describe in detail every chapter.