Hal’s School

An important location for teenage romantics and secret warlocks.
Long before he exasperated millions of Star Wars fans, Rian Johnson made “Brick”, a superb high-school crime film.
I appreciated the hermetic, no-adults-in-sight tone of the movie, and tried to incorporate some of that into Lords of Air and Darkness.
This was my model for the Planet Caravan coffee house in Air and Darkness. In my world, references to the Beatles are often replaced with references to Black Sabbath.