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The B-movie in the title story is the 1932 classic Island of Lost Souls. Charles Laughton plays a sadistic scientist whose experiments in the House of Pain have turned a tropical island's wild animals into a tribe of beast-men. Laughton tries to strengthen his piteous creations' tenuous grip on humanity by leading them in pep rallies. Their eyes frantic with a hunger for conviction and approbation, the beast-men repeat the refrain, "Are We Not Men? Are We Not Men?" You don't know if you should laugh or cry. Spencer's stories make you do both. In a review of his first novel, The Lost Son,…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1996Arcade Pub. · 218 pages · 9781559703574
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