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Mavia said: "This is our method of cleansing and rejuvenating the body. Those radio-active rays cleanse the skin and penetrate the pores, revivifying the body with new life and strength." - “Via the Hewitt Ray”, M. E. Rupert.

Oh my.

A Divided Republic.

Those Fatal Filaments

Loved “Ely’s Automatic Housemaid”, by Elizabeth W. Bellamy!

2nd story: The Painter of Dead Women, by Edna W. Underwood. The editor states in the introduction that it is often categorized as a Horror story. It is that, but I can see why he considers it an SF story as well. I liked it and the strange circumstances were not explained away as delusion as in the first one, but rather given “scientific credence”.