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'The narrator as a child suffered so dreadfully from nightmares that his parents took him for treatment to Dr Kessel for his experimental treatment. Kessel was confident that his mechanism would draw off Anthony’s “bad thoughts.” In the night, the boy explores the facility.'
Source: Locus Magazine (www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2011/08/lois-tilton-reviews-short-fiction-late-august-2/). (Sighted: 30/11/2016)
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Steampunk note: This story was included in an anthology of steampunk fiction. The image of the esoteric medical facility of potentially barbarous or experimental methods is a common trope of neo-Victorian and steampunk fiction. Steam-age machinery is also central to the story.
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