This is the door, here, in front of me! A heavy door of teak, black and shiny. However, with my hand on the iron latch, I hesitate, fighting the subtle uneasiness and irritation which I feel rising in me. At the back of my mind a question forms: why do I come here, to the bottom of this hidden alley at night, I, who seldom or never touch the opium pipe? Hardly at all: perhaps five or six pipes now and again on Sundays at the hour of siesta! Six little pipes, that's nothing! Any regular opi...

In the fevered world of French Indo-China, where river steamers, colonial outposts, and mission stations cling to the edge of vast unexplored forests, The Red Gods unfolds as an exotic adventure-romance charged with mystery and doom. It begins in an opium den in Cho-lon, where narrator Jules Bressond drifts into narcotic visions before being shaken awake by a stranger who turns out to be his childhood friend, Pierre de Lursac—once vigorous, now ravaged by some hidden catastrophe. As Pierre...

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