The essential Saltes of Animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his owne Studie and raise the fine shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at his Pleasure; and by the lyke method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated.
BORELLUS.
CONTENTS
| 1. | [A Result and a Prologue] |
| 2. | [An Antecedent and a Horror] |
| 3. | [A Search and an Evocation] |
| 4. | [A Mutation and a Madness] |
| 5. | [A Nightmare and a Cataclysm] |
1. A Result and a Prologue
From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. He bore the name of Charles Dexter Ward, and was placed under restraint most reluctantly by his grieving father.