A Thousand Deaths (London short story)

"A Thousand Deaths"
Author	Jack London
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Short story
Publication date	1899

"A Thousand Deaths" is an 1899 short story by Jack London, and is notable as his first work to be published. It has as its theme the deliberate experimentally induced death and resuscitation/resurrection of the protagonist, by a mad scientist who uses multiple scientific methods for these experiments. The plot is Freudian, inasmuch as the scientist who carries out the painful killings and resuscitation experiments is the subject's own father, whom the subject eventually succeeds in vaporizing.

Film adaptation

A feature-film adaptation entitled Torture Ship, directed by Victor Halperin, was released in 1939.^[1]

Writer/director Adam Zanzie released a short film adaptation which premiered at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase in 2014, where it won awards for Best Actor (John Bratkowski) and Best Sound Design.^[2] It later screened at the Trash Film Festival in Vȁraždīn, Croatia in 2016.^[3]

References

External links

A Thousand Deaths public domain audiobook at LibriVox
A Thousand Deaths at GASLIGHT

Works by Jack London

Novels	The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902) A Daughter of the Snows (1902) The Call of the Wild (1903) The Kempton-Wace Letters (1903, anonymously co-authored with Anna Strunsky) The Sea-Wolf (1904) The Game (1905) Before Adam (1906) White Fang (1906) The Iron Heel (1908) Martin Eden (1909) Burning Daylight (1910) Adventure (1911) The Scarlet Plague (1912) A Son of the Sun (1912) The Abysmal Brute (1913) The Valley of the Moon (1913) The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1914) The Star Rover (1915) The Little Lady of the Big House (1916) Jerry of the Islands (1917) Michael, Brother of Jerry (1917) Hearts of Three (1920) The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (1963) (Unfinished, completed by Robert L. Fish)

Short stories	"A Thousand Deaths" (1899) "The Law of Life" (1901) "Bâtard" (1902) "Moon-Face" (1902) "The Leopard Man's Story" (1903) "To Build a Fire" (1908) "The Dream of Debs" (1909) "A Piece of Steak" (1909) "The South of the Slot" (1909) "The Heathen" (1910) "The Mexican" (1911) "The Unparalleled Invasion" (1914) "The Red One" (1918)

Short story collections	Lost Face (1910) South Sea Tales (1911)

Non-fiction	The People of the Abyss (1903) The Road (1907) The Cruise of the Snark (1911) John Barleycorn (1913)

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