Donovan's Brain is a 1942 science fiction novel by Curt Siodmak.
The novel has become somewhat of a cult classic, with fans including Stephen King. King discusses the novel in his own book Danse Macabre and the line Cory uses to resist Donovan is repeated to similar effect in his horror novel, It.
The novel is written in the form of diary entries by a physician, Dr. Patrick Cory, a middle-aged physician whose experiments at keeping a brain alive ...
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Donovan's Brain is a 1942 science fiction novel by Curt Siodmak.
The novel has become somewhat of a cult classic, with fans including Stephen King. King discusses the novel in his own book Danse Macabre and the line Cory uses to resist Donovan is repeated to similar effect in his horror novel, It.
The novel is written in the form of diary entries by a physician, Dr. Patrick Cory, a middle-aged physician whose experiments at keeping a brain alive are subsidized by Cory's wealthy wife. Under investigation for tax evasion and criminal financial activities, millionaire megalomaniac W.H. Donovan crashes his private plane in the desert near the home of Dr. Cory. The physician is unable to save Donovan's life, but removes his brain on the chance that it might survive, placing the gray matter in an electrically charged, oxygenated saline solution within a glass tank. The brainwaves indicate thought --and life-- continue. Cory makes several futile attempts to communicate with it. Finally, one...
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