I must acknowledge the Portland Center for Spiritual Living and its writers group led by Kathy Marshack. I would not have managed to put so many words down in a row without its support and encouragement. If you want to write your first book, join a writers group!
I also need to honor H. P. Lovecraft for providing the wonderful and terrible locations of Arkham, Kingsport, and Miskatonic University hidden away in a fictitious version of Essex Country, Massachusetts. A few of his characters (or their ancestors) also appear in the book. If you’re a Lovecraft fan, I hope you’ll enjoy their presence.
My protagonist, “Mac” Mackenzie loves science and so do I. Because of this, I have chosen to provide scientific explanations for many of the happenings in Witch Tower. Where possible I’ve explained real experiments and given the names of their real-world creators and collaborators. However, I don’t claim to be a scientist myself. Where I’ve gotten the science bits wrong (or arrived at the wrong conclusions regarding them), please forgive me. At the end of the day, this is just a novel.