Mysterion 2

A project in Arlington, MA by Enigmatic Mirror Press
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The second installment in our anthology series featuring Christian-themed fantasy, science fiction, and horror
Backers: 94
Average Pledge Per Backer: $45

Funded: $4,193 of $5,000
Dates: Jul 10th -> Aug 19th (40 days)
Project By: Enigmatic Mirror Press
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Latest News

Only 12 hours left!

August 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Only 12 hours left to go, as the Mysterion 2 Kickstarter winds to an end. We're now 72% funded, with 90 backers, but still need to raise another $1392 in the next 12 hours for our campaign to be a success. It seems like a lot, but it's also a far... (Read More)

24 hours left (+ an excerpt by Joanna Michal Hoyt)

August 18th - via: kickstarter.com
24 hours to go on the Kickstarter for Mysterion 2, and we've passed that crucial 60% funded milestone. According to Kickstarter, 98% of projects that reach this point end up getting funded. We still have a long way to go--almost $2000 of our required... (Read More)

37 hours left (+ an excerpt by David Tallerman)

August 17th - via: kickstarter.com
With 37 hours to go on our Kickstarter, we're at 59% of our funding goal, with 80 backers. This is still very far from where we need to be in order to succeed, so if you know people who might be interested in signing up as backers, please let them... (Read More)

58 hours left (+ excerpts by Stephen Case and Rachael K. Jones)

August 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Kickstarter has started informing us how much time we have left in hours rather than days, so we really are coming close to the end. Right now we have 77 backers and are 56% funded. It does seem less and less likely that we're going to reach our... (Read More)

Three Days (+ excerpts by Robert B. Finegold and Kenneth Schneyer)

August 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Three days left on our Kickstarter for Mysterion 2! We're 54% funded, with 76 backers. *** Today we have two excerpts from Mysterion 1 to share with you. The first is from "Of Thine Impenetrable Spirit" by Robert B. Finegold, MD. Dr. Finegold is a... (Read More)

Four Days (+ an excerpt by Bret Carter)

August 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Four days left on our Kickstarter campaign for Mysterion 2. We're at 52% of our goal, with 74 backers. This is a big surge from yesterday (thank you so much, all you new backers!), but we still have a long way to go if we're to make our funding... (Read More)

Five Days (+ an excerpt by Daniel Southwell)

August 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Five days to go on the Kickstarter for Mysterion 2! We currently have 63 backers, and are at 45% of our funding goal. *** Today's Mysterion 1 excerpt is from Daniel Southwell's story "The Monastic". After a rough experience as a parish priest,... (Read More)

Six Days (+ an excerpt by S. Q. Eries)

August 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Six days left to go for our Mysterion 2 Kickstarter! We're up to 64 backers, and 46% of our funding target. For today's Mysterion 1 excerpt, we're featuring a selection from "Yuki and the Seven Oni", by S. Q. Eries. (We won't be opening to... (Read More)

Seven Days (+ an excerpt by Beth Cato)

August 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Seven days to go on the Mysterion 2 Kickstarter. We're now at 44% of our funding target, supported by 62 backers. A special welcome and thanks to everyone who's signed up since our last update! We've been including excerpts from the first Mysterion... (Read More)

Eight Days (+ an excerpt by Pauline J. Alama)

August 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Our Kickstarter now has only eight days to go. We're 38% funded, with 57 backers. For today's excerpt from Mysterion 1, we're featuring Pauline J. Alama's story "A Good Hoard". Lord Richard of Chateldor has brought in the Pest Banisher to deal with... (Read More)

Nine Days (+ an excerpt by F. R. Michaels)

August 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Nine days left in our Kickstarter campaign, and we're still at 36% funding with 56 backers. Today's excerpt (again, from Mysterion 1) is from F. R. Michaels's story "Cutio". F. R. Michaels is a very nice, normal person who happens to like weird and... (Read More)

Ten Days to Go (+ an excerpt from H. L. Fullerton)

August 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Only 10 days left in our Kickstarter campaign for Mysterion 2!  We're slowly creeping upward in the general direction of our funding target, but will need to get a lot more backers on board if we're going to make it. You can help by letting people... (Read More)

Twelve Days Left! (+ an excerpt from J. S. Bangs, with a song to listen to while you read)

August 6th - via: kickstarter.com
We're definitely in the home stretch of our Kickstarter campaign, with only 12 days left to go! Fifty-four backers have signed on, and we've reached 34% of our goal. Today we're featuring another excerpt from Mysterion 1, this time from "Yuri Gagarin... (Read More)

Two weeks left + Excerpts from Mysterion 1 (featuring Laurel Amberdine)

August 4th - via: kickstarter.com
We have 14 days left to go on our Kickstarter campaign, and are now 32% funded, with 51 backers. Thank you! Your support means a lot to us, and we hope we can draw in enough additional backers to be able to bring you Volume 2 of Mysterion. Some of... (Read More)

Kickstarter goals

August 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
(aka "Why Are We Asking For Money?" and "Is $5000 Really Enough?") Why We're FundraisingWe funded our first anthology from our own savings. Why are we fundraising this time? Well, it turns out that publishing is expensive. (Who knew?) And since we... (Read More)

Twenty-one days and twenty-one nights

July 31st - via: kickstarter.com
We've just passed the halfway point for our 40-day Kickstarter campaign, with 19 days left to go. At 28% funded, with 47 backers, we're excited by how far we've come, but keenly aware of how much better we need to do if we're going to make it. If... (Read More)

What is Enigmatic Mirror Press?

July 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Enigmatic Mirror Press is the small independent publisher producing this anthology. And when we say small, we mean it! There are two of us, Donald S. Crankshaw and Kristin Janz. We sub-contract out work we can't realistically do ourselves (anything... (Read More)

What is Mysterion? (Part 2)

July 24th - via: kickstarter.com
We've been live for 2 weeks now, and are 26% funded, with 40 backers. Many thanks to all who've supported us! The rate of new pledges has definitely leveled off since the first week, so anything our current backers can do to help us get the word out... (Read More)

What is Mysterion? (Part 1)

July 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Like earlier updates about our project, this one quotes the introduction to the first Mysterion anthology. So to tell us what Mysterion is, here's Kristin’s introduction from the 2016 anthology. --------------- Is Mysterion Christian fiction?... (Read More)

Why are we doing this? (Part 2)

July 18th - via: kickstarter.com
For this, the second part of the series on why we're publishing Mysterion 2, we’re presenting the conclusion of Donald’s introduction to the first anthology, continued from our last post:   -------------- Mysteries frighten us. We prefer... (Read More)

20% funded

July 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Coming up on the end of the first week, we’ve passed $1000, which is 20% of our funding goal. Thank you so much for your support! We’re on track for where we had hoped to be at this point. There's always a danger of things slowing down after the... (Read More)

Why are we doing this? (Part 1)

July 13th - via: kickstarter.com
We wanted to write some updates expanding on our reasons for doing this anthology, but then we realized that we'd already written that explanation in the introductions to the first Mysterion. So to explain where the idea came from and what he found... (Read More)

Our first 40 hours

July 12th - via: kickstarter.com
We're two days and one night into our forty days and forty nights of Kickstarter. We've been working hard to get the word out since we launched, but there's still a lot more that we're planning to do, including hosting a party at Readercon in the... (Read More)

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