Capturing the essence of Hunter S. Thompsonās āGonzoā style, short story Mescalito details his dark and miserably comic first mescaline drug trip. First published in Songs of the Doomed, Mescalito suggests the nascent ideas and energy of Thompsonās seminal work on the ā60s experience, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
"We live in a jungle of pending disasters," the author warns. Alone in a hotel room in Los Angeles in February, 1969, Thompsonsā alter-ego Duke sustains a fever-pitched bout of paranoia so dark and depraved, it would make most mortals run fastāand farāfrom this kind of suicidal experimentation.