Monsters

THE CADAVER of GIDEON WYCK-- Edited by Alexander Laing--Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Even readers who pay little attention to publishers' blurbs may find their hackles rising in pleasant anticipation when they spy on The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck's jacket: WARNING People unable to sustain violent shock are advised that they read this book on their own responsibility. AND THE PUBLISHERS REALLY MEAN THIS. The book read, their hackles relapse in disappointment. Though Editor Laing's anonymous tale starts off promisingly enough on horrifying tiptoe, it soon bumps down to the flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder story. David Saunders, narrator of the tale, was a poor hard-working student at the Altonville State Medical School. Like most others, he admired Dr. Wyck's brains, disliked his brutality. But in spite of small-town rumor he never con sidered Dr. Wyck crazily evil until the terrified behavior of one of Dr. Wyck's patients gave him a clue. When the patient went insane with fear, when the first symmelus (monster with lower extremities fused) was born at the hospital, David was beginning to put a misty two & two together, and only his sound medical training kept him from getting an answer outside of medical arithmetic.

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