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The hands of Orlac / Maurice Renard ; translated from the French by Iain White

Following a train accident, a concert pianist undergoes a hand transplant using limbs taken from an executed murderer. He soon finds himself plagued by the donor's violent impulses in this 1920 horror novel.

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