An aspiring journalist, Raymond Hewson, seeks to make a name for himself by successfully spending the night amongst the wax murderer's at Mariner's Waxworks and publishing the account. Story by A.M. Burrage (1931) Harker Brayton—a bachelor of thirty-five, a scholar, idler, and something of an athlete, rich, popular, and of sound health—has returned to San Francisco after travelling throughout the world and has gladly accepted the hospitality of his friend, Dr. Druring, the distinguished scientist. Settling down to an evening's reading and musing, Brayton scoffs at what he has just read—a passage from Morryster's Marvells of Science, in which Morryster alleges that snakes have hypnotic powers ... Story by Ambrose Bierce (1890)
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