TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard
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4 Chapter I A Result and a Prologe
15 Chapter II An Antecedent and a Horror 49 Chapter III A Search and an Evocation 78 Chapter IV A Mutation and a Madness 106 Chapter V A Nightmare and a Cataclysm
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Written from January to March, 1927
Published May and July of 1941 in Weird Tales
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
‚The essential Saltes of Animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his own Studie, and raise the fine Shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at his Pleasure; and by the lyke Method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated.‘
- Borellus
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I. A Result and a Prologe
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From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. He bore the name of Charles
Dexter Ward, and was placed under restraint most reluctantly by the grieving father who had watched his aberration grow from a mere eccentricity to a dark mania involving both a possibility of murderous tendencies and a profound and peculiar change in the apparent contents of his mind. Doctors confess themselves quite baffled by his case, since it presented oddities of a general physiological as well as psychological character.
In the first place, the patient seemed oddly older than his twenty-six years would warrant. Mental disturbance, it is true, will age one rapidly; but the face of this young man had taken
4 Chapter I A Result and a Prologe
15 Chapter II An Antecedent and a Horror 49 Chapter III A Search and an Evocation 78 Chapter IV A Mutation and a Madness 106 Chapter V A Nightmare and a Cataclysm
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed.
This file is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply.
Written from January to March, 1927
Published May and July of 1941 in Weird Tales
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
‚The essential Saltes of Animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his own Studie, and raise the fine Shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at his Pleasure; and by the lyke Method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated.‘
- Borellus
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I. A Result and a Prologe
1
From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. He bore the name of Charles
Dexter Ward, and was placed under restraint most reluctantly by the grieving father who had watched his aberration grow from a mere eccentricity to a dark mania involving both a possibility of murderous tendencies and a profound and peculiar change in the apparent contents of his mind. Doctors confess themselves quite baffled by his case, since it presented oddities of a general physiological as well as psychological character.
In the first place, the patient seemed oddly older than his twenty-six years would warrant. Mental disturbance, it is true, will age one rapidly; but the face of this young man had taken