Hi LisaLCFan, I agree the novella 'A Ballet of Lepers' is pretty grim. (The publisher launched a fiction - pun intended - by dubbing it a 'novel'.) Quite competently written, showing that LC in his early twenties was already a very talented, mature writer (and thinker). By no means as packed with go...

I've written an article on Wikipedia about A Ballet of Lepers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Ballet_of_Lepers In the fullness of time, once I've read all the stories, I will read the reviews and add a 'Reception' section to the article - as at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flame_(poetry_collec...