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