The Monster Maker and other stories
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
24.10.2026
Verlag
Alpha EditionSeitenzahl
40
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,3 cm
Gewicht
75 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-09-33149-7
A surgeon's room becomes a place where the human body is no longer inviolable, and scientific curiosity begins to resemble cruelty. Across eight horror short stories, physicians, inventors and criminals confront experimental surgery, vivisection, bodily transformation and forces that resist rational explanation. Each encounter tests the perilous boundary between investigation and obsession, asking what remains of conscience when a person is treated as a specimen, an instrument or a problem to be solved. From an Indian rajah's palace to the streets and waterfront of San Francisco, the settings shift while the unease deepens. Medical offices, isolated houses, a hospital and a courtroom frame disturbing questions about criminal responsibility, imprisonment, revenge and fate. Phrenology and other pseudo-scientific ideas sit beside superstition, hallucination and mechanical deception, leaving physical evidence and supernatural possibility in unresolved tension. Grotesque violence is not separated from moral consequence: fear may arise from an extraordinary force, a disturbed mind or the cold application of a theory. Dark irony runs through these gothic tales, sharpening their fascination with alcohol, psychological disturbance and the uncertain authority of science. Surgeons and physicians seek answers through the body; criminals face questions of guilt and responsibility; inventors create deceptions whose implications exceed mere ingenuity. The collection's distinctive power lies in refusing easy certainty, allowing bodily fact, mental terror and supernatural suggestion to remain dangerously entangled. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
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