Publisher Description
It was dusk, on the evening of December 7, 1906, when I first encountered Sir John Harmon. At the moment of his entrance, I was standing over the table in my study, a lighted match in my cupped hands and a pipe between my teeth. The pipe was never lit. So begins this short story by Hugh B Cave where an uncanny device takes possession of the minds of law abiding citizens and molds them into murdering tools. A rather mad scientist combines hypnotic waves with radio waves, and thus The Murder Machine.
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About Hugh B. Cave
Hugh B. Cave (1910–2004) was born in England and came to the United States as a child, eventually settling in Boston. Best known for his works of pulp fiction, he authored hundreds of books, short stories, and collections, including The Cross on the Drum, Larks Will Sing, The Dawning, Long Live the Dead, Bitter/Sweet, and many others. He received lifetime achievement awards from the International Horror Guild, the Horror Writers Association, and the World Fantasy Convention.