On History

When I made my plural histories, I said, “thank fuck that’s over, never doing THAT again!” It was a lot of work, and a lot more agonizing about what I didn’t know, what I should and shouldn’t include, what “plural” even meant. I was thrilled when it was done. Wash my hands of the business!

But then I got a printer. And then I tried a tiny print run of those essays in zine format, and people started buying them at cons. And I went, “I know so much more about demoniacs and possession now... I have Coons and Greaves and their godforsaken bibliography and Silverwolf and Ida Craddock and what if I made a real book about this?”

Clearly I have learned nothing.

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