Frank R. Stockton 1 hr 42 min read

A staid attorney tells the strange true story of a man recalled from the dead by a scientific process, and the very human troubles it causes.

Frank R. Stockton's 1888 tale is narrated by a practical, unspeculative lawyer whose credibility lends weight to the account of Amos Kilbright, materialized back into life with all the awkward complications that follow. Wry, inventive proto-SF from a master of the whimsical American tale. Read it for clever nineteenth-century speculative fiction that plays its resurrection premise for gentle comedy and real feeling.

In its time

Published in 1888, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

1 hr 42 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).