"A writer of distinction." - E. M. Forster
" A]n unusual, talented book with many good things in it. ...]
Stephen Gilbert is an interesting writer, whose material is out of
the ordinary run of things." - Anthony Powell
Marcus Brownlow was a strange and imaginative young schoolboy
whose dreams sometimes foretold the future. Now he's nineteen,
unemployed, directionless, and not ready to grow up. An unexpected
invitation from a school friend to visit him at the house of his
eccentric millionaire uncle Mr. Burnaby seems to hint at adventure
and a change of fortune. But what Marcus doesn't know is that Mr.
Burnaby wants his help in a series of strange experiments whose
ultimate goal is to discover what happens to the soul after death.
What begins as harmless fun as Mr. Burnaby teaches Marcus how to
project his spirit out from his body quickly becomes more sinister,
and may lead to a horrible fate even more terrifying than death. .
. .
Stephen Gilbert (1912-2010) is best remembered for his novel
"Ratman's Notebooks" (1968), twice filmed as Willard, and for his
friendship as a young man with the much older novelist Forrest
Reid. "The Burnaby Experiments" (1952) is a brilliant and
unclassifiable novel, part fantasy, part science fiction, part
horror, and partly a thinly veiled and blackly humorous
fictionalization of Gilbert's difficult relationship with Reid.
This first-ever reprinting of Gilbert's scarce novel coincides with
its 60th anniversary and features the original jacket art by
legendary book designer Berthold Wolpe.
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