The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck
A Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction book. Creepy medical-science-fiction-mystery that doesn't quite live up to it's promising premise and becomes less...
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Creepy medical-science-fiction-mystery that doesn't quite live up to it's promising premise and becomes less about the atmosphere and more about the whodunit. But it's still a unique entry in the horror-mystery subgenre, with some genuinely terrifying plot elements and a singular first-person narrative. It starts with a Bang, a great Big Bang followed by one of the most disappointing anticlimax ever read. From a punchy and fierce first chapter with all the most exciting and terrifying elements from a 1930s semi horror novel to a flat and standardised ending. From a truly eerie and disquieting first scene to a dry, dull and despairingly... William Hjortsberg's little back-cover blurb describes The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck as "part mystery novel, part Gothic mad scientist tale, part grotesque horror story..."and the combination of all three of these descriptors was just too much for me to pass up. What he doesn't tell you there is that it's also a crazy ride with a number...
