“The Defier of Ghosts” (1824) is a story by Friedrich August Schulze, translated by Thomas De Quincey. You can read it today on my Patreon.

Summertime
The Path You Have to Sing
Alexis Wright‘s Carpentaria, an epic work set in a fictional town called Desperance, opens before there are any people in it at all: an ancestral serpent, “a creature larger than storm clouds,” descends from the stars and drags itself across the wet clay of the




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