Science-Fiction Plus, May 1953

This May 1953 issue of Science-Fiction+ magazine features "Death of a Sensitive" by Harry Bates as its lead novelette. The story concerns a newspaper reporter investigating psychic twins John and Robert Inglis, famous parapsychology subjects from Columbia University who possess clairvoyance and other unexplained mental powers. The reporter, sent to interview John Inglis after hearing he's behaving strangely with cockroaches in his apartment, arrives to find the man dead. The narrative frames itself as urgent testimony transmitted through the dead sensitive's influence, set against a citywide crisis involving mysterious invaders. The issue also contains F.L. Wallace's complete short novel "Worlds in Balance" and stories by Eando Binder, Robert Bloch, and Harry Walton, alongside editor Hugo Gernsback's lengthy essay on the expanding science-fiction industry across publishing, radio, television, film, and merchandising.