“Donovan’s Brain” by Curt Siodmak. Armed Services Edition O-9 (1944). First edition, thus.
From the back cover:
When the millionaire Warren Horace Donovan crashed in his private plane near a remote ranger station in Arizona, Patrick Cory got the chance of his career. For Donovan couldn’t have pulled through, so Cory felt no compunctions about stealing his brain for his strange researches into life after death. But in his scientific fervor he didn’t reckon with the power which Donovan had exerted in his lifetime and which, deprived of his body, became immeasurably greater through Cory’s experiment. And so presently that power paralyzed Cory’s will and he found their positions reversed and himself the agent of Donovan’s unfulfilled plans and ambitions.
To what terrifying lengths that circumstance forced Cory makes a story as spine-chilling as it is fascinating – and one which can’t be put down. Aside from its unusual situation, its unfolding and development are a feat of logic and suspense, testifying to the author’s equal mastery of drama and human behavior.
This special edition of DONOVAN’S BRAIN by Curt Siodmak has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. [First published in 1942]
Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime.
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A motion picture based on the book came out in 1953. In the film version, Dr. Patrick Cory, the doctor who keeps the brain alive and is soon possessed by it, is played by actor Lew Ayres. His wife Janice Cory is played by Nancy Davis, the future First Lady Nancy Reagan. Here she is together with Lew Ayres in the movie trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnlJ1Lrr3IU
“Donovan’s Brain” by Curt Siodmak. Armed Services Edition O-9 (1944). First edition, thus.
From the back cover:
When the millionaire Warren Horace Donovan crashed in his private plane near a remote ranger station in Arizona, Patrick Cory got the chance of his career. For Donovan couldn’t have pulled through, so Cory felt no compunctions about stealing his brain for his strange researches into life after death. But in his scientific fervor he didn’t reckon with the power which Donovan had exerted in his lifetime and which, deprived of his body, became immeasurably greater through Cory’s experiment. And so presently that power paralyzed Cory’s will and he found their positions reversed and himself the agent of Donovan’s unfulfilled plans and ambitions.
To what terrifying lengths that circumstance forced Cory makes a story as spine-chilling as it is fascinating – and one which can’t be put down. Aside from its unusual situation, its unfolding and development are a feat of logic and suspense, testifying to the author’s equal mastery of drama and human behavior.
This special edition of DONOVAN’S BRAIN by Curt Siodmak has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. [First published in 1942]
Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime.
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A motion picture based on the book came out in 1953. In the film version, Dr. Patrick Cory, the doctor who keeps the brain alive and is soon possessed by it, is played by actor Lew Ayres. His wife Janice Cory is played by Nancy Davis, the future First Lady Nancy Reagan. Here she is together with Lew Ayres in the movie trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnlJ1Lrr3IU