There are visions that do not console. There are voyages that begin in wonder and end in surrender. There are nights in which the weary soul, loosening from the ordinary world, begins to find beauty in drift, distance, and relinquishment.

In Where the Weary Soul Sets Sail, J.D. River gathers poems and tales by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, Walter de la Mare and Robert W. Chambers into a single haunted progression: from dream and reverie, to passage and longing, to the seductive stillness that lies beyond return. Rivers open onto impossible countries. White ships arrive from the edge of sleep. Music summons the listener toward pursuit. Silence itself becomes a form of judgment.

Part of the Elsewhere Collection, this volume offers a deliberately shaped encounter with literature's dream-voyages, fatal visions, and the dangerous sweetness of elsewhere.

The Elsewhere Collection is a growing sequence of curated anthologies in which public domain works of the fantastic and uncanny are gathered not by genre or period but by psychological atmosphere - by the specific inward states they illuminate and the pressures they exert on the reader who encounters them in sequence. Each volume assembles its texts around a single governing experience: a mood, a temptation, a way consciousness can be altered, seduced, or undone. The editorial voice is present throughout as personal testimony - the record of a reader shaped by these works. Each volume closes with an original poem or tale as aftersound. The series takes its name from the quality shared by all its texts: the sense that somewhere beyond the threshold of ordinary waking life, another order of experience waits - more spacious, more dangerous, and disturbingly more alive.

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