![]() ![]() ![]() “On every side of me,” he says, “stretched a bleak and desolate expanse of plain, covered with a tall overgrowth of sere grass, which rustled and whistled in the autumn wind … A few blasted trees here and there appeared as leaders in this malevolent conspiracy of silent expectation.” In Ambrose Bierce’s enigmatic short story, “ An Inhabitant of Carcosa” (1886), an unnamed narrator awakens from a prolonged fever to find himself wandering in a shadow realm.
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