The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs, published in 1987, is the final novel of the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads. The reference is to the western bank of the Nile River, which in Egyptian mythology is the Land of the Dead. Inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, it explores the after-death state by means of dream scenarios, hallucinatory passages, talismanic magic, occultism, superstition, and Burroughs’ characteristic view of the nature of reality.

1987 novels | William S. Burroughs novels