This short story by
Jack London tells of a well-off young man who
runs away from his
father to seek
adventure on the
open seas. He is rescued from
drowning after a
storm by a
submarine like the ones
Jules Verne wrote about in
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The owner of the vessel turns out to be his father (gone
mad scientist.)
His father has discovered a method to
bring the dead back to life proved that the majority of their structure is preserved. His father takes
perverse scientific pleasure out of
killing and
reviving his son until at last (fed up) the hero
murders his father by way of
vaporisation.