The Ugly Spirit 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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Notes[]
- This story was introduced by Unsent letter in The Book of the Peace Dossier and concluded by A Man Lays Dying at the end of The Book of the Peace.
- The Ugly Spirit was accompanied in the author-curated Spotify playlist by the tracks "Peace" by Depeche Mode, "The Devil Is Dope" by the Dramatics, and "The Western Lands / Hashisheen" by William S. Burroughs and Bill Laswell.[1]
- Burroughs's involvement in an occult time war had previously been posited in the 2004 CCRU essay "Lemurian Time War".[2]
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.
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