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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== 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.The Book of the Peace playlist
* Burroughs's involvement in an occult time war had previously been posited in the 2004 essay "Lemurian Time War".Cybernetic culture research unit: "Lemurian Time War"
== 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 ==
Category:The Book of the Peace short stories
Category:Stories set in 1953
Category:Stories set in South America