Weird Tales, Vol. 6, No. 5

# Museum Catalog Note

This November 1925 issue of Weird Tales features H.G. Wells's "The Stolen Body," in which psychical researcher Mr. Bessel and his colleague Mr. Vincey conduct thought-transference experiments. When Bessel successfully projects an apparition of himself across London to Vincey's apartment, his physical body becomes mysteriously vacant and wild. Bessel is discovered rampaging through the streets of Covent Garden hatless and disheveled, striking passersby with a walking-stick while crying "Life!"—apparently animated by some alien entity. The issue also contains "The Return of the Undead" by Arthur Leeds (hospital vampire story), "Lukundoo" by Edward Lucas White (African pygmy tale), and "The Seventh Devil" by F. Douglas McHenry (scientist transfers human brain into gorilla skull), among numerous short stories and reprints of classics by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.