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electricity. Finally, a jolt of energy<br />
surged into the cadaver. Fressen stood<br />
over it, anxiously awaiting a sign. Alas,<br />
his “father” refused to stir.<br />
The mad surgeon tried one final,<br />
desperate measure. He gave his father<br />
an infusion of his own blood. This, he<br />
reasoned, would seal the bond of<br />
kinship between them, and wel<strong>com</strong>e<br />
his father’s spirit fully into its new<br />
home. As the blood seeped from<br />
Fressen into the corpse, the surgeon<br />
could feel himself growing dizzy. But<br />
his need for his father to be with him<br />
once more drove Fressen on, and he<br />
called out to his father over and over,<br />
urging him to wake.<br />
When the doctors found Fressen, he<br />
was barely alive, lying beside the<br />
horrible corpse he had sewn together<br />
that night. The chief physician locked<br />
Fressen in a private cell, and then<br />
ordered the hideous creation<br />
destroyed. But when the doctors<br />
returned to the morgue, the thing was<br />
gone.<br />
Confused and alarmed, the doctors<br />
instituted a search for the body.<br />
Unfortunately for them, they found it.<br />
Or rather, it found them. The new<br />
“Edward” proceeded to kill each and<br />
every doctor at the asylum that night.<br />
Skittering through the bleak halls by<br />
torchlight, hooting and gibbering, the<br />
golem returned from its first bloody<br />
night of existence to free his “son” and<br />
creator, Fressen.<br />
For some few months, Fressen and<br />
his golem controlled the asylum.<br />
Located perhaps ten miles from the<br />
nearest village, the isolated asylum<br />
rarely received visitors, and thus no<br />
one discovered the doctors’ tragic<br />
fates.<br />
As the months passed, Fressen’s<br />
“father” began to challenge and mock<br />
the young man. Finally, the golem<br />
ignored him. Instead of playing with<br />
Fressen, the golem became interested<br />
in finding a perfect mate for itself.<br />
Once again, as long ago, Fressen felt a<br />
rage burning within.<br />
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