The Hands of Orlac
( French - Les Mains d'Orlac - 1920 )
novel by Maurice Renard
translated by Florence Crewe-Jones
Published: E. P. Dutton - hardback - 1929
ISBN: none
Souvenir Press - paperback - 1981 ( translated by Ian White )
ISBN: 028562461X / 9780285624610
synopsis
An ingenious story centres around a world-famous concert pianist, Stephen Orlac, whose hands are horribly mutilated in a train accident. An eminent surgeon grafts on a new pair of hands, but with ghastly results, for Orlac now finds himself possessed, not of musical skills, but by strange and terrible impulses.
awards
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filmed in 1924 and 1960
( French - Les Mains d'Orlac - 1920 )
novel by Maurice Renard
translated by Florence Crewe-Jones
Published: E. P. Dutton - hardback - 1929
ISBN: none
Souvenir Press - paperback - 1981 ( translated by Ian White )
ISBN: 028562461X / 9780285624610
synopsis
An ingenious story centres around a world-famous concert pianist, Stephen Orlac, whose hands are horribly mutilated in a train accident. An eminent surgeon grafts on a new pair of hands, but with ghastly results, for Orlac now finds himself possessed, not of musical skills, but by strange and terrible impulses.
awards
….
filmed in 1924 and 1960