The Surgeon of Souls
Introduction by Mike Ashley.
Reprinted at last - Victor Rousseau's tales of terror of from Weird Tales Magazine in the 1920s centering around Dr. Ivan Brodsky. Additionally, 'The Surgeon of Souls' also includes a bonus 12th installment not previously printed in Weird Tales magazine.
He was an expert hypnotist and received delicate cases from all parts of the country; lost and multiple personality, amnesia, agraphia, aboulia, all the odds and ends of neurouses that had been give up in despair by the "regulars." He was at that time professor of nervous diseases at the hospital. Ivan Brodsky, he called himself, and it was said that he was a cross between two races whose blend of shrewdness and mysticism was probably accountable for the production of so remarkable a personality as his own.
Dr. Ivan Brodsky - The Surgeon of Souls.
Contents:
- Introduction: Lost Souls by Mike Ashley
- The Case of the Jailer's Daughter
- The Woman with the Crooked Nose
- The Legacy of Hate
- The Tenth Commandment
- The Major's Menagerie
- The Fetish of the Waxworks
- The Seventh Symphony
- The Man Who Lost His Luck
- The Chairs of Stuyvesant Baron
- Homo Homunculus
- The Dream That Came True
- The Ultimate Problem
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Victor Rousseau
Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960) was a writer of pulp fiction who was active in Great Britain and the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century who wrote under the pen names Victor Rousseau and H. M. Egbert. After an early career as a reporter for the New York World and as an editor of Harper's Weekly, he became a fiction writer. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, frontier stories, western romance, and crime fiction, but was probably best known as an early exponent of science fiction and fantasy. His best known novels in those genres were The Messiah of the Cylinder, a story of a man placed in suspended animation for 100 years, and The Eye of Balamok, a lost-race novel. Several of his stories were adapted for Western films, and he was the author of one silent film screenplay, The Devil's Tower, based on one of his stories.
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