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Franz Kafka's In The Penal Colony

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Stay at home, stay weird.

Continuing this small isolation run of some of our favourite horror/weird tales, we are pleased to present In The Penal Colony, from the Cockroach King himself, Franz Kafka, originally written in 1919.

Content Warning: detailed descriptions of torture.

Uses the public domain translation by Ian Johnston: http://web.archive.org/web/20041204170925/http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/inthepenalcolony.htm

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