THE DEEP ONES: "The Strange Discovery of Doctor Nosidy" by Ernest Richard Suffling

"The Strange Discovery of Doctor Nosidy" by Ernest Richard Suffling

Discussion begins October 11, 2023

First published in The Story Hunter, or, Tales of the Weird and Wild (1896).



BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2201717

SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS

A Mummy Omnibus: 1820s - 1920s (Abridged Edition)

ONLINE VERSIONS

https://archive.org/details/1896thestoryhunterortalesoftheweirdandwildernestrich...

ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS

No online audio versions found to date.

MISCELLANY

https://brewminate.com/dream-trance-and-telepathy-occult-psychology-in-the-victo...
https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=3407
https://tinyurl.com/2vfzup9j

I would advise people to read the introduction to the collection before the story. I didn't, and I was puzzled by how the story ended. Essentially, the introduction is a frame for all the collection's stories.

Thanks for the tip; I've just read the introduction.

Well, that was somewhat amusing and definitely a product of its time. We have a scientist trying to prove the existence of the soul and determining it's a new form of matter. The whole brain-ether thing brings to mind lumineferous ether which was thought, before the Michaelson-Morley experiment in 1897, to be in the space between worlds.

Nosidy's dilemma of what to do with his secret knowledge reminded me of a a science fiction story by T. L. Sherred: "E for Effort". It has a time viewer gathering records which have all sorts of political ramifications when made public.