The Obliterated Man: A Classic Sci-Fi Tale of Identity, Transformation and the Loss of Self
H. G. Wells
Jul 2026 · Velubri Audio · Narrated by John Wilkie
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What happens when the role you critique begins to play you? Egbert Craddock Cummins was an unassuming man with simple tastes, but a sudden assignment as a theater critic plunges his impressionable mind into a waking nightmare. Night after night, exposed to the wild gestures and melodramatic outbursts of the stage, something sinister takes hold. His plastic mind begins to absorb the fiction - overwriting his speech, hijacking his movements, and forcing him into exaggerated poses he cannot control. With every curtain call, the fiction metastasizes, transforming his everyday encounters into a grotesque, involuntary performance. As his true self is systematically erased, he watches in voiceless agony while his fiancé flees, his world collapses, and a puppet of stolen dramatics usurps his life. Is it a strange psychological contagion, or an inescapable curse consuming his soul? Step into H.G. Wells’s haunting world of stolen identity and unravel the mystery for yourself - listen to "The Obliterated Man" now!
What happens when the role you critique begins to play you? Egbert Craddock Cummins was an unassuming man with simple tastes, but a sudden assignment as a theater critic plunges his impressionable mind into a waking nightmare. Night after night, exposed to the wild gestures and melodramatic outbu...
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