The Orpheus Process (1992), a book whose totally metal chapter titles (“Breakfast of Crucifixions,” “Deathwomb”) and studly hero, Dr. Orville Leonard Helmond (who had “managed to love and lay quite a number of pretty women”), can’t hide the fact that the good doc is a terrible scientist. He shoots monkeys with a .22, brings them back to life in his lab, and then either stabs them to death or takes them home to play with his kids. Depends on his mood.
