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Bad Thoughts and the Mechanism single work   short story   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Bad Thoughts and the Mechanism
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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)

Notes

  • 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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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Ghosts By Gaslight : Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense Jack Dann (editor), Nick Gevers (editor), New York (City) : Voyager , 2011 Z1810708 2011 anthology short story 'Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts in the machine, fateful revelations, gaslit streets scarcely keeping the dark at bay, and other twisted variations on the immortal classics that frighten us still.'
    Source: Back cover
         New York (City) : Voyager , 2011     pg. 196-216
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