Charles Mandrake and the Resonance Array (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2025
Series: Book 1 of 3 - Charles Mandrake
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Charles Mandrake and the Resonance Array (Paperback)
- Author
- Charles Mandrake
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798261858034
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: Charles Mandrake
On a late July day, Charles Mandrake in East Bay, Maine, a small coastal town where the days run on tides, weather, and routine. An old observatory sits on the property that everyone calls “the Pibbles place.” It has been locked up for decades. Most people treat it like a landmark. Charles treats it like a problem.
Inside, the place is still wired for work. There are consoles, binders, a shortwave radio annex, and a diesel generator that shouldn’t be there if the observatory was only meant for stargazing. Then Charles finds the notes. Measurements. Warnings. A sequence of numbers written like a combination.
With Anna Ko and Todd Baskerville, Charles begins restoring the observatory, but the work doesn’t behave like a normal repair job. The more they fix, the more the system seems like a procedure waiting to be followed. Lights flicker at the same moments. The telescope mount rotates back to north on its own. A low hum settles into the floor when the generator takes load. And one small pilot lamp keeps glowing even when nothing else is powered.
East Bay has plenty of opinions about the observatory, and most of them boil down to: leave it alone. Charles doesn’t. The details don’t add up. The equipment feels overbuilt. The notes feel too careful. And there are iron rings in the floor that have nothing to do with seeing stars.
Myles Pibbles disappeared in 1969, and the town decided it was an accident. Charles isn’t so sure. Not after what the logs suggest, and not after the observatory starts responding like it recognizes what they’re doing.
Whatever Myles built, it was never meant to look into the heavens.
It was meant to look somewhere else.
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