A Thousand Deaths

"A Thousand Deaths" is an 1899 short story by Jack London, his first work to be published. It is about the experimentally induced death and resuscitation/resurrection of the protagonist, by a mad scientist who uses multiple scientific methods for these experiments. It was published in Black Cat magazine. In John Barleycorn London explains that he was paid 40 dollars for the story. The story was adapted to film in 1939.