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"'''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. [http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/1000dths.htm]
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"'''A Thousand Deaths'''" is an 1899 short story by [[Jack London]], his first work to be published. It is about the experimentally induced death and resuscitation/resurrection of the protagonist, by a mad scientist who uses multiple scientific methods for these experiments. It was published in ''[[The Black Cat (US magazine)|Black Cat]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LD8oAAAAYAAJ&dq=black+gold+robert+mcblair&pg=RA1-PA40|title=The Black Cat|year=1916}}</ref> The story was adapted to film in 1939.

==Film adaptation==
In 1939, a [[B movies (Hollywood Golden Age)|Hollywood B movie]] titled ''[[Torture Ship]]'' was loosely based on "A Thousand Deaths".<ref name="afi">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/7993-TORTURE-SHIP?sid=aaa50897-2021-49e6-9c36-27f3c1c79cb1&sr=11.400018&cp=1&pos=0|publisher=[[American Film Institute]]|title=Torture Ship|accessdate=April 9, 2020}}</ref>

In 2014, writer-director Adam Zanzie released a short film adaptation which premiered at the [[St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase]], where it won awards for Best Actor (John Bratkowski) and Best Sound Design.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0002870/2014 |title = St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, US (2014) – IMDb| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref> It later screened at the Trash Film Festival in Varaždin, Croatia, in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.trash.hr/?page_id=2596 |title=Accepted movies 2016 – Trash Film Festival 11 |access-date=2016-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019004824/http://www.trash.hr/?page_id=2596 |archive-date=2016-10-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
*''[[Flatliners]]''

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{librivox book | title=A Thousand Deaths | author=Jack London}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070712040129/http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/1000dths.htm A Thousand Deaths at GASLIGHT]
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"A Thousand Deaths"
Short story by Jack London
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Short story
Publication
Publication date1899

"A Thousand Deaths" is an 1899 short story by Jack London, his first work to be published. It is about the experimentally induced death and resuscitation/resurrection of the protagonist, by a mad scientist who uses multiple scientific methods for these experiments. It was published in Black Cat magazine.[1] The story was adapted to film in 1939.

Film adaptation[edit]

In 1939, a Hollywood B movie titled Torture Ship was loosely based on "A Thousand Deaths".[2]

In 2014, writer-director Adam Zanzie released a short film adaptation which premiered at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, where it won awards for Best Actor (John Bratkowski) and Best Sound Design.[3] It later screened at the Trash Film Festival in Varaždin, Croatia, in 2016.[4]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Black Cat". 1916.
  2. ^ "Torture Ship". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  3. ^ "St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, US (2014) – IMDb". IMDb.
  4. ^ "Accepted movies 2016 – Trash Film Festival 11". Archived from the original on 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2016-10-18.

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