The Soul Stealer
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Bond Street's fashionable shops and private clubs provide the opening setting for Guy Thorne's London novel. Eustace Charliewood, a weary man about town, visits a specialist who uses an electric massage machine to restore his appearance and energy. The careful description of this treatment introduces a world in which modern equipment promises unusual power over the human body.
That promise takes a darker turn when Rathbone is held in a secret prison. He tries to understand why his captors regularly fasten a wired brass helmet to his head, reasoning through the apparatus and the motives of Gouldesbrough. His concern for Marjorie adds a personal urgency to his questions. Readers interested in early science fiction will find suspense built from electrical devices, hidden intentions and a prisoner's effort to make sense of his own experience.
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- Author
- Guy Thorne
- Pages
- 158
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
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