Belmont, 1963 A short-story collection includes: "The Machine in Ward Eleven" "Selected Incidents" "A Letter to A. A. (Almost Anybody)" "Jake's Journal" "Just Like on Television---" "The Alectryomancer"

"I tied his body to the treatment table and stuffed his mouth with wadded paper towels. Dr. Fellerman's big brown eyes were expressive indeed, particularly when my fingers adjusted the elastic harness over his head and centered the shiny electrodes to his temples.

"A simple, impersonal, uncomplicated machine. I plugged the long cord into the wall outlet, turned the two plastic knobs as far to the right as they would go and left them there..."

For some time now, Charles Willeford's writing has been emanating from the deep South like a series of electric shocks. Millions of readers around the world delight over each new item, whether a feature in Playboy or one of his rare novels. He is ranked as an author of distinction in the Burnett-Foley Best Short Stories of 1962.

For his fans, and for readers with the enviable thrill of discovering Willeford still ahead of them, the publishers commissioned THE MACHINE IN WARD ELEVEN as a paperback original. The manuscript -- even before it went to press -- has begun to scare the wits out of readers, and is already being talked about as Willeford's best.

"The weirdest tale that has been published in America since Edgar Allan Poe." - Science Fiction Quarterly

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