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[PREVIEW] Halloween Reading: "In the Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka
Duckfeed Presents · Duckfeed Presents
October 27, 20235m 0s
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Show Notes
<html><p>A Traveler has arrived at a penal colony to observe a strange manner of execution: a device that takes twelve hours to kill the offender. Its biggest proponent, an Officer still loyal to an old regime, fanatically explains the devices's intricacies while preparing a Condemned Man for slaughter. Then, he reveals his plan to implicate the Traveler in its further operation.</p><p>No stranger to existential horror, this is Franz Kafka's most viscerally upsetting story. "In the Penal Colony" brings a twisted <em>Saw-like sense of justice and clockwork machinery into contact with his normal domain of fussy clerks and bureaucrats who exist to reveal religious epiphanies but never experience them for themselves.</em></p><p><strong>Other Halloween Readings:</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/halloween-bonus-7110877" target="_blank">"The Repairer of Reputations" by Robert W. Chambers</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/halloween-story-15098123" target="_blank">"This Band Could Be Your Life" by Gary Butterfield</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/halloween-yellow-22422500" target="_blank">"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/halloween-mask-w-31202116" target="_blank">"The Mask" by Robert W. Chambers</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/halloween-tower-43336174" target="_blank">"The Tower" by Marghanita Laski</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/halloween-of-by-58001784" target="_blank">"The Prodigy of Dreams" by Thomas Ligotti</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/halloween-in-of-73993350" target="_blank">"In the Court of the Dragon" by Robert W. Chambers</a></p></li></ul></html>