Gallegher and Other Stories

A cycle of humorous stories about the talented inventor Gallegher.

Under the influence of alcohol, it’s not Gallegher himself who starts creating—it’s his subconscious. What wonders he finds in his laboratory once he has sobered up…

Contents of the cycle:
The Perfect Hideout / Time Locker (1943)
Gallegher invented an amazing cabinet—everything put into it changed shape and size. Even if an object didn’t fit into the cabinet right away, it would gradually be absorbed into it. But the mechanism behind this cabinet turned out to be completely different from what Gallegher thought…

This World Is Mine! / The World Is Mine (1943)
Not only did three “lib” men from Mars come to Gallegher’s house hoping to conquer this world, but in the yard there soon started to appear corpses. Corpses of Gallegher himself…

The Proud Robot / The Proud Robot [= Narcissus] (1943) // Co-author: Katherine Moore
The inventor Gallegher was approached by the owner of a television company who needed help fighting an unscrupulous competitor. The inventor promised to help—and in a state of drunken intoxication made a robot. But why he made it, and what relation it had to the television company, Gallegher forgot…

Gallegher Plus / Gallegher Plus (1943) // Co-author: Katherine Moore
Gallegher Bis (that’s what the inventor calls his “second self,” which appears when he’s completely wasted) built a strange machine that dug a huge pit in the yard. To avoid being arrested for debts, Gallegher is forced to urgently look for a customer who might own this new device. And it turns out there are three of them…

Ex Machina (1948)
After accepting a commission from the firm “Adrenalins Limited,” Gallegher solved the problem again in a way that was incomprehensible to him. As a result, his grandfather and the client disappeared, beer started vanishing from his glass, and Gallegher couldn’t wake up his subconscious…