Hypnosis has been around for more than 3000 years, when doctors used it to lull a patient to sleep, before subjecting him to painful medical treatment. But nowadays, the yellow press as well as popular pulp fiction has found hypnotism to be a good subject which is extensively used by the evildoer to influence the hypnotized good guys, to do his bidding! The word hypnosis is meant for inducing a trance-like state, resembled to a sleep-like state. In this state, the person becomes susceptible to
Tags: Conversational Hypnosis, Doctors, Evildoer, Good Guys, Influence People, Painful Medical Treatment, Pulp Fiction, Sleep, Trance, Word Hypnosis
Abraham Merritt (1888-1943) was one of the greats of pulp fiction, although up until recently his work was largely forgotten. Recently, two of his novels were reprinted, The Moon Pool (1919) and The Metal Monster (1920), both of which I’ve blogged about in some detail. I found The Moon Pool , on the whole, a rather ordinary pulp adventure novel punctuated by scenes of brilliant weirdness, while The Metal Monster was a truly unique masterpiece of weird fiction. I wanted to see where ot
Tags: Abraham Merritt, Adventure Novel, Masterpiece, Metal Monster, Mirage, Moon Pool, Novels, Pulp Fiction, Weird Fiction, Weirdness
