An Inhabitant of Carcosa
Reading San Francisco: 1886
On Christmas day 1886, the San Francisco Newsletter published a short story decidedly at odds with the holiday spirit. Ambrose Bierce’s “An Inhabitant of Carcosa,” which runs just three pages long, is a darkly-atmospheric first-person tale of a man from an ancient city who wakes up in a strange wilderness only to make a shocking discovery.
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