The Ugly Spirit (short story)

 was the first story in The Book of the Peace.

Summary
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Characters

 * Governor
 * William Burroughs
 * Richard Schindler
 * The Ugly Spirit

Worldbuilding
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Continuity

 * Burroughs' astral travels take him to a dust-bowl town in the American West (PROSE: And To Dust We Shall Return) and an ancient Egyptian court torn apart by conflict between Sutekh and Horus. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice)
 * The Book of the Peace tells of the War between the Great Houses and the enemy. (PROSE: Alien Bodies, et al.)
 * The creature and its people want information on the Peace. (PROSE: The End of the Beginning)
 * This setting is returned to in PROSE: A Man Lays Dying.