Welsh Rarebit Tales

"Welsh Rarebit Tales" by Harle Oren Cummins is a compilation of quirky, dreamlike short stories from the early 1900s. Supposedly born from a group of writers having fun and trying new things, the stories mix funny moments with weird, sometimes disturbing, events. The book starts with a lighthearted introduction where the author talks about a big meal he and his friends ate before telling stories that came from that experience. The first story is about Professor Aloysius Holbrok, a scientist obsessed with making life, whose scary experiments lead to him successfully giving life to a chemical creation, only for it to blow up and him to go crazy. This combination of science fiction and horror sets the tone for a series of stories that are thought-provoking and incredibly strange.