Soul Exchange

Barry Payne was overlooked during his lifetime, but that did not prevent him from serving the art of literary expression with dignity, despite external circumstances. The author of dozens of detective stories and humorous tales, he remains in the history of literature primarily as a master of absolutely original "ghost stories" and, first and foremost, as the creator of the novel "Soul Exchange," the plot of which - an experiment with human consciousness and its horrifying consequences - was borrowed by the "hermit from Providence" himself. Beginning with this work, the theme of reincarnation received a fundamentally new development in world literature...