The Ugly Spirit (short story)

The Ugly Spirit

Key crew

Writer:

Philip Marsh

Release details

Part of:

The Book of the Peace

Release date:

23 December 2018

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The Ugly Spirit was the first story in The Book of the Peace.

1 Summary
2 Characters
3 References
4 Notes
5 Continuity
6 Footnotes

Summary[]

to be added

Characters[]

Governor
William Burroughs
Schindler
The Ugly Spirit

References[]

to be added

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 songs Peace by Depeche Mode, The Devil Is Dope by the Dramatics, and The Western Lands / Hashisheen by William S. Burroughs and Bill Laswell.^[1]

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.

Footnotes[]

↑ The Book of the Peace playlist

Faction Paradox series

BBV Productions

The Faction Paradox Protocols	The Eleven Day Empire / The Shadow Play • Sabbath Dei / In the Year of the Cat • Movers / A Labyrinth of Histories

Dionus's War	Call Me Ishmael • The Healer's Sin

Other	Mr Saldaamir • Eternal Escape • Daylight Savings

Mad Norwegian Press

Novels	The Book of the War • This Town Will Never Let Us Go (prologue) • Dead Romance • Of the City of the Saved... (prologue) • Warlords of Utopia (prologue) • Warring States (prologue) • Erasing Sherlock (prologue)

Short stories	Toy Story • The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic • Grass • The Night is Long, and Dreams Are Legion • Unification Theory

Image Comics

Political Animals • Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses

Magic Bullet Productions

The True History
of Faction Paradox

Coming to Dust • The Ship of a Billion Years • Body Politic • Words from Nine Divinities • Ozymandias • The Judgment of Sutekh

Random Static

Newtons Sleep • The Return of the King

Obverse Books

Novels

Against Nature (prologue) • The Brakespeare Voyage • Head of State • Weapons Grade Snake Oil • Spinning Jenny

A Romance in Twelve Parts	Storyteller • Gramps • Mightier Than the Sword • Now or Thereabouts • Nothing Lasts Forever • Library Pictures • Holding Pattern • A Story of the Peace • Print the Legend • Tonton Macoute • Alchemy • A Hundred Words from a Civil War

Burning with Optimism's Flames	Raleigh Dreaming • Office Politics • ...and from the Tower She Did Fall • La Santa Muerte • Dos Hombres - A Fable • All the Fun of the Fear • Wing Finger • The Strings • Squatters Rights • After the Velvet Eon • Remake/Remodel • Dharmayuddha • A Star’s View of Caroline • De Umbris Idearum

Liberating Earth	Playing for Time • Dreamer in the Dark • Annie's Arms • The Mountains are Higher at Home • Judy's War • Red Rover Red Rover • The Víkingr Mystique • Life of Julia • Project Thunderbird

The Book of the Enemy	Subjective Interlock • The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A • Cobweb and Ivory • The Book of the Enemy • T.memeticus: A Morphology • The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale • A Bloody (And Public) Domaine • Life-Cycle • First Draft • Eyes • We Are the Enemy • Timeshare • A Choice of Houses • Houses of Cards • The Enemy - The Hole in Everything • The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy • No Enemy But Despair • The Map and the Spiders • Pre-narrative Briefings

The Book of the Peace	The Ugly Spirit (Unsent letter) • What Keeps Their Lines Alive (A Scene ) • Going Once, Going Twice (The Story So Far..., Daring Initiation, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) • Jukebox • A Farewell to Arms (A Farewell to R.M.S., A Prelude to a Prelude, A Shift in Focus) • And To Dust We Shall Return • War During Peacetime (Inside the Looking Glass) • The End of the Beginning (Pure Light) • A Man Lays Dying

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