Welcome to another romp through a classic horror story! We are so very excited to share this story in near-tandem with The Electric Chair. In The Electric Chair, we are introduced to a Dr. Ainsworth who proceeds with an experiment of questionable morality. We note the interesting concern of doctors in horror; most of whom are famously infamous and tend to be the source of the terror imposing upon the other characters. Dr. Frankenstein is a notable example. Here was a most unscrupulous character who saw nothing and no one beyond his own ends, much to the detriment of those closest to him.

We here at the Calamity apparently insist on exacerbating this stereotype, as we have another story in which a doctor proceeds to inflict terror upon a small community in his unmitigated—and largely unregulated—commitment to confirming a theory of his. We introduce to you The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni, by Joseph Faus and James Bennett Wooding, originally published in Weird Tales in 1923. As in the case of Dr. Ainsworth, our Dr. Calgroni proceeds with experiments of questionable morality.

In accord with JEST: The Calamity Content Rating System, we rate this story a middle ground 🤡🤡🤡. It is not exceptional, and thus receives more than two clowns, but also is not terribly written, with minimal troublesome tropes, and so does not deserve more than three clowns. Take from that what you will and proceed with caution.