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Philip Maxwell

The Samhain Legacy

The Madoc Papers

A letter, a bible, a bronze medallion, a map in two hands: the things Josh finds as his inheritance pulls him in, and the real documents behind the legend. Pick anything up.

Made from Philip Maxwell’s novels and from historical sources. Each piece says which is which. Follow the journey on the Atlas.

From the novels

  1. No. 01

    Who Do You Think You Are?

    The cream envelope that changes Josh’s life.

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  2. No. 02

    Who Do You Think You Are?

    Pressed into Josh’s hand by a dying man on a Manhattan street.

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  3. No. 03

    Who Do You Think You Are?

    A forgotten name, and the same dragons as the medallion.

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  4. No. 04

    Kindred Spirits

    Red ink, pencil, and six lines that all run through a marker.

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  5. No. 05

    Kindred Spirits

    Three reports of the night two men vanished from a rig.

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  6. No. 06

    Kindred Spirits

    Dozens of emails Josh never sent, full of nothing but numbers.

  7. No. 07

    Kindred Spirits

    Carved into the rock beneath the house, under the lichen.

  8. No. 08

    Kindred Spirits

    Helen’s scallop-shell cakes, and the story behind them.

From history

  1. No. 09

    The Annals, Book XIV · written c. AD 116

    The Roman account of the attack on the Druids of Anglesey.

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  2. No. 10

    Title Royal · 1580

    Elizabeth I’s astrologer puts Madoc in America.

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  3. No. 11

    Knoxville, Tennessee · 9 October 1810

    What the Cherokee chief Oconostota told him about the old forts.

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