Ultrazone: A Tangier Ghost Story (2022)

Portland, Oregon: Verse Chorus Press / Visible Spectrum (book, 1st), 2022.
8.125" x 5.375" x 1", 352 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-953835-10-9.

Ultrazone: A Tangier Ghost Story, a novel by Mark Terrill and Francis Poole, published by Verse Chorus Press (Portland, Oregon) in 2022. Cover photograph by Alan Knight, interior photographs by Francis Poole, and book/cover design by Steve Connell.

This is a fiction involving William S. Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Brion Gysin, and others, set in Tangier.

From the rear cover: 

"William S. Burroughs is dead and buried, but he can find no rest.  His ghost is roaming the backstreets of Tangier in search of a missing manuscript. During his chaotic years there in the 1950s Burroughs not only wrote Naked Lunch, he also spewed outa mass of much darker material he then lost – hundreds of pages in which he wrestled with his demons. He fears his longtime nemesis, the Ugly Spirit, has been lurking in those pages ever since – and is now emerging from its slumber.

"To help him find and destroy the infected manuscript before the Ugly Spirit can spread its evil in the world, Burroughs enlists fellow ghosts and old Tangier pros Paul Bowles and Brion Gysin, Joseph Dean and Brian Jones, as well as an inept witch, an elderly sorcerer, and a gang of Macaque monkeys. Their many adventures – often comic, sometimes ghastly – involve vanishing corpses, giant black centipedes – and a word virus about to go pandemic."