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

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

Summary Edit

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Characters Edit

Governor
William Burroughs
Schindler
The Ugly Spirit

References Edit

to be added

Notes Edit

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 Edit

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 Edit

↑ 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

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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