It seemed incredible, thought Carrie Samason, that a simple postcard like that could have involved her in so much trouble. If it had been something important, like her getting a new hairdo, or rearranging the living room, or buying a new evening gown, she might have expected all sorts of perfectly amazing results to follow.
But from the postcard and the fact that she had sent James instead of going herself, she expected nothing at all.
Lending libraries have been known to make mistakes—but never one so potentially explosive as the time they sent Carrie the wrong volume.
Hypnotism, as anyone who has ever watched a snake charm a bird knows, is far older than homo sapiens. Yet only since the eighteenth century days of Dr. Mesmer has it emerged from priestly mumbo-jumbo into the realm of science. Even today, despite its wide medical usage, hypnotism is not wholly accepted. But in a hundred years….
Joseph Samachson was born on October 13, 1906, in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Russian Jewish parents, Anna (Roshansky) and David Louis Samachson, a businessman. He was an American scientist and writer, primarily of science fiction and comic books. Samachson died of complications from Parkinson's disease on June 2, 1980, in Chicago, Illinois.
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First Published 1953
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Date of publication, 2083 A.D.
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