This book is a sequel/reimagining to a movie called Dr. Phibes Rises Again which came out in July 1972 which was a sequel to a movie called The Abominable Dr. Phibes which came out in May 1971.
This particular book is based in the parallel universe that is called above the law in the 1920s (the same particular universe to do with my book the Revenge of Doctor X).
Originally when I wrote this story it was a disaster so here I am rewriting it.
And out of interest I do not own the movies The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again or any of the characters even though that does not matter because the information to do with the movies has been changed slightly to do with changing back story to characters mostly a character called inspector Trout who has been changed from a stupid English police officer to a stupid American police officer.
Please read and review and I hope you enjoy the book.
Chapter 1 the beginning of the day
On the 1st of November 1928 slightly before 9.00 AM in Hyde Park in London there is a giant mansion that was built during the Victorian period but until recently was abandoned for about 10 years and was reopened and underneath the giant mansion there is a giant basement that is completely dark and completely cannot be seen and in the middle of the room there is a man called Dr. Phibes who cannot be seen because of the darkness and at the moment he is thinking to himself about the darkness.
Here I am in the darkness again a place where I exists and have existed for many years in the past and will continue to exist many years in the future and it is a place where I can hide from the world apart from when I need to go into the world and murder whoever I want and get away with it for the obvious matter that apart from a man called Inspector Trout the world believes I am dead and for as long as it is convenient to me I will make sure the world continues believing I am dead.
Then Dr. Phibes pulled a lever about him that turned on the lights and because of the lights turning on Dr. Phibes can now be seen and he is a middle-aged man wearing an expensive suit and his face is completely disfigured and there is a problem with his throat so he cannot talk without an especial device that is a record player that plugs into his neck.
Then Dr. Phibes plug the device into his neck and he started talking to himself about his situation.
Out of interest this particular basement fills me up with memories of the past and that is because I was born on New Year's Day 1880 in this room underneath this giant mansion and for a number of years this basement with my bedroom and in the beginning of the 1890s I was sent away to New York City and I became a student at New York University and I was there for a number of years and later in the beginning of the 1900s I became a doctor at a private hospital near to hear and this room went back to being my bedroom and later in 1914 I became a soldier to do with the war in Germany and I was in a mixture of Germany in France to do with the war from 1914 until the end of the war in 1918 and then I returned to this room underneath this giant mansion and the hospital near to hear and then me and my wife who was a nurse I met in a hospital when I was injured at the end of the War in 1918 moved away from this mansion and moved to a giant mansion in New York City and allowed this place to be abandoned for about 10 years and now I am back in this giant mansion that is especially set up that there are a number of rooms for a number of visitors to do with a secret organisation and each of the rooms lead to a number of secret rooms that are filled up with booby-traps especially designed to murder whoever I want and that will begin in the beginning of next week when I have finished murdering some other people for a different reason and to go into more detail about that (he said looking at a particular part of the room that is a giant blackballed covered in pictures of particular people) those are the pictures of the people who I will murder next to do with a reason that is unimportant (then he looked at another part of the room that is a giant blackballed covered in pictures of particular people) and those are the pictures of the members of the secret organisation who I am going to murder in the beginning of next week (then he went back to looking at the pictures of the people he will murder next) and when I murder those particular people that will get me closer to bringing my wife back from the dead and as usual I will murder the people with the help of my female assistant.
Then Dr. Phibes turned his head around and looked at a giant picture of his deceased wife and he started talking to the giant picture of his deceased wife.
Soon my beloved wife we will be together because I killed the people who killed you and I killed the people who knew the directions to the place where I thought was the place which will bring you back from the dead and also I killed some archaeologist who was really close to the entrance to the place where I thought was the place which will bring you back from the dead but it was not the right place so I must kill the people who know where the right place is and that will happen in the beginning of next week.
Then Dr. Phibes stop talking to the giant picture of his deceased wife and went back to looking at the pictures of the people he will murder next and he started talking to himself about them.
Out of interest I knew all of those people when I was a soldier in the war in Germany from 1914 to 1918 and there was once a time when I was friends with all of them but that is not going to save them from me murdering them.
Then Dr. Phibes started talking to the pictures of the people he will murder next.
If this is unclear to you all of you are going to get murdered by me to do with an incident that happened in 1920 that I do not have to explain because all of you know what it is and that is another way of saying all of you will soon be dead because I want you all dead because of something that happened to me and my wife about 8 years ago in 1920 and out of interest during this last decade alone I have been responsible for the deaths of many people and I do not care about any of them and I will not care when you people join the other people who I have murdered.
Then Dr. Phibes stops talking to the pictures of the people he will murder next.
Then Dr. Phibes went back to talking to the picture of his deceased wife.
I have finished talking to you and because of that I will talk to a different version of you.
Then Dr. Phibes unplugged the device from his neck and he walked into 1 of the rooms next to the basement which is filled with stuff belonging to his deceased wife including a dressing table with a giant picture of his deceased wife connected to where the mirror should be.
Inside of the room Dr. Phibes walked up to the dressing table with a giant picture of his deceased wife connected to where the mirror should be.
Then Dr. Phibes sat down at the dressing table with a giant picture of his deceased wife connected to where the mirror should be.
Then Dr. Phibes plugged in a different but very similar device into his neck so he could talk.
Then Dr. Phibes started talking to the giant picture of his deceased wife connected to where the mirror should be on the dressing room table.
As you already know there is a secret organisation that knows the location of a secret place that can bring the dead back to life and because I want you back from the dead in the beginning of next week a number of the members of the secret organisation are coming to this giant mansion and that is because I am invited them here to do with a party which will last a week to do with a competition which will be the last person who is still alive will get all the money but there is no money and in reality when they are here I am going to murder them 1 by 1 after I question them about the secret place that can bring the dead back to life and by the end of the week there will be no survivors and that is just do with 1 of the many things I am willing to do to bring you back from the dead seriously after I murdered all the members of the secret organisation and find the secret place that can bring the dead back to life we will be back together again after the other 3 years you have been dead and like I have already said that is going to be next week when I have finished murdering the number of my old friends to do with the incident in 1920 and anyone who gets in my way.
Then Dr. Phibes stops talking to the giant picture of his deceased wife connected to where the mirror should be on the dressing room table.
Then Dr. Phibes unplugged the device from his neck.
Then Dr. Phibes stood up from the dressing table with a giant picture of his deceased wife connected to where the mirror should be.
Then Dr. Phibes walked out of the room and walked back into the basement.
Inside of the basement Dr. Phibes sat down.
Then Dr. Phibes's female assistant walked into the room.
Then Dr. Phibes plugged in the device into his neck so he could talk.
Then Dr. Phibes looks at his female assistant and started talking to her.
Out of interest we will begin murdering people very soon.
Dr. Phibes's female assistant looked at him and did not say anything.
And to go into more detail we will begin murdering people in less than 30 minutes.
Dr. Phibes's female assistant looked at him and did not say anything.
And out of interest 30 minutes is 1800 second.
Dr. Phibes's female assistant looked at him and did not say anything.
And because of that all we have to do is do nothing of less than 30 minutes or less than 1800 second and then we will begin murdering people.
Dr. Phibes's female assistant looked at him and did not say anything.
End of chapter 1