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The Hands Of Orlac
| Author: | Maurice Renard |
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Souvenir Press, 1981 Dutton, 1929 Original French publication, 1920 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Film & Television Adaptations
The Hands Of Orlac
Continental Distributing
12/31/1960
Mad Love
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
7/12/1935
The Hands Of Orlac
Aywon Film
9/24/1924
Hands of a Stranger
Allied Artists Pictures
4/22/1962
Synopsis
Among lovers of fantasy, Maurice Renard's "The Hands of Orlac" has acquired the mystique of a legend. The title is familiar to all, but throughout the sixty years since its publication in French, it has never been translated into English. The sense of loss has been heightened by the fact that during this time no less than four films have been made, based on the book -- including the first, 1924 version by Robert Wiene that starred Konrad Veidt, the 1935 Hollywood film "Mad Love" with Peter Lorre and the 1961 Franco-British production starring Mel Ferrer.
The terrifyingly ingenious story centres round 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. The hands that he has been given were those of a man guillotined for murder, and the spirit of the dead man has survived in his hands to live again in the unfortunate pianist.
"The Hands of Orlac" is a "grand guignol" novel worthy of an author who steeped himself in the works of Edgar Allen Poe from his early youth. Rich in macabre fantasy, it is guaranteed to captivate the many readers who have waited so long for its appearance, as well as attracting a host of new fans. Rarely have suspense, horror and eroticism been so forcefully blended into one gripping tale.
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