The Resurrection Club
by Christopher Wallace
Category: Fiction

In the early 1800s, scientist Dr. Alexander Brodie develops a heinous device that extracts and preserves the souls of unsuspecting victims for future use in experiments on other patients. In 1999, this same device turns up being tested in public at Peter Dexter's "Resurrectionist Expression" performance, much to the horror of young Charles Kidd, Dexter's public relations guru. The display of "studied theatrics" backfires when the crowd angrily overtakes the stage after several audience members lose consciousness and vanish.