Essentially the most outstanding feature of the story is its sense of horror: The image of a man waking up mendacity in a bathtub full of ice, with one much less kidney, is a lurid one certainly. In some unspecified time in the future, the man blacked out, and when he came to, he found himself mendacity in a lodge bathtub, lined in ice. The first victim in this wave was an Ohio man in city for a gross sales convention.