A harrowing tale questions why science can be so cruel to animals
Tag: cruelty
Weird #15: “In the Penal Colony” by Franz Kafka (1919)
A traveller to a penal colony gets the grand tour of an enormous torture machine.
Weird #13: “The Hell Screen” by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1918)
To what lengths would a mad painter go to paint a portrait of hell?
Weird #8: “The Dissection” by Georg Heym (1913)
A dissection has never been described in such rich horror.
Weird #7: “The Man in the Bottle” by Gustav Mayrink (1912)
The seventh entry in my Archaeology of Weird Fiction challenge is a short, decadent tale set at an extravagantly cruel masqued ball.
Matthew Rettino 