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Carcosa (/kɑːrˈkoʊsə/) is a fictional city in Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (1886). The ancient and mysterious city is barely described and is viewed only in hindsight (after its destruction) by a character who once lived there.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carcosa | is a | mysterious | 0.90 | text |
| Carcosa | is a | city where humans mingle with their nearly immortal allies | 0.90 | text |
| Carcosa | is a | name of a planet whose weird black hole physics figures in the story.Swedish writer Anders Fager's | 0.90 | text |
| Carcosa | is a | name of a South Pacific city inhabited by evil people led by the Yellow Raja and the Pallid Mask.In Lawrence Watt-Evans' The Lords of Dûs series | 0.90 | text |
| Carcosa | is a | kingdom in the west | 0.90 | text |
| Asshai | instance of | near other magical cities | 0.80 | text |
| Carcosa | related to Associated names | Lake Hali | 0.60 | section |
| Carcosa | related to Associated names | Hastur | 0.60 | section |
| Carcosa | related to Associated names | In | 0.60 | section |
| Carcosa | related to Associated names | The King | 0.60 | section |
| Carcosa | related to Associated names | Yellow | 0.60 | section |
| Carcosa | related to Associated names | Robert | 0.60 | section |
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