Chester S. Geier 1 hr 4 min read

On a hospital bed lies a man still breathing, his heart still beating, yet in every way that matters he is dead, his soul gone, his eyes as empty as a waiting grave.

Chester S. Geier's 1950 story is an eerie horror and psi-powers tale. Chilling, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for an unsettling mystery where the living dead pile up with their souls stripped away, and an investigator must trace the unseen thieves behind them, in a moody, dread-soaked pulp thriller.

In its time

Published in 1950, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 4 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Hannes Bok