02469cam a22003853u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000220011324500180013526400510015330000470020433600260025133700260027733800360030349000660033950000310040550801030043652011120053953400720165165300200172365300180174365300200176165300500178170000310183183000660186285600930192885600430202199900190206477869UtSlPG20260610134814.0mcr n260607r20261956utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aHarris, Arthur T.10aEau de morgue 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Fantastic Universe, June 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 5.).  aRelease date is 2026-02-05  aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aEau de morgue by Arthur T. Harris is a science-fantasy crime short story written in the mid-20th century. Blending occult intrigue with a detective setup and a clear tribute to Poe, it revolves around mysterious disappearances tied to an exotic cosmetic concoction. Its likely topic is vengeance executed through uncanny chemistry that turns luxury into lethal peril.

An ex–Air Force drifter, Jan Mystel, lands a part-time job at Madame Outre’s Greenwich Village perfume shop, funded by the imperious Duchess of Dunscombe. When the Duchess tries to strong-arm Madame into moving uptown, the two women clash; Madame coolly promises a “parting gift.” Soon after, both women vanish. Questioned by Detective Sergeant Kurt Milbach, Jan recounts mailing the Duchess a jar of Madame’s custom bath salts. At the Duchess’s hotel, police find an empty vial of those salts and her wedding ring caught in the tub drain—implying that the gift’s true power was to dissolve its bather “all of me,” a chillingly complete revenge that leaves no body behind. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1956  aScience fiction  aShort stories  aMystery fiction  aGreenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction1 aEmshwiller, Ed,d1925-1990 0aProduced from Fantastic Universe, June 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 5.).4 uhttps://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v05n05_1956-06_Gorgon776/page/n3/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77869  c118589d118589