An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1887)by Ambrose Bierce Story copied from the Wikisource. For there be divers sorts of death - some wherein the body remaineth; and in some it vanisheth quite away with the spirit. This commonly occurreth only in solitude (such is God’s will) and, none seeing the end, we say the man is lost, or gone on a long journey - which indeed he hath; but sometimes it hath happened in sight of many, as abundant testimony showeth. He gave no heed, nor did he arrest his pace. “Good stranger,” I continued, “I am ill and lost. Direct me, I beseech you, to Carcosa.”