“The head of Professor Dowell. Tales and Stories” is a collection of works by Alexander Belyaev, published in 1987 by the Pravda publishing house. The collection includes the story “The Head of Professor Dowell”, the fantasy novel “The End of the World” and a series of stories about the inventions of Professor Wagner (“Hoyti-Toyti”, “Over the Abyss”). “The Head of Professor Dowell” is a science fiction novel by Russian Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Belyaev, one of the writer’s most famous works. The first version in the form of a story was published in Rabochaya Gazeta in 1925. Plot: Parisian surgeon professor Kern secretly carries out successful work to revive the human head. Marie Laurent, who became an assistant at his private clinic, accidentally learns that Kern owes his success in research to the head of his former supervisor and famous professor Dowell, who died under suspicious circumstances, which he revived. Kern hides the existence of the animated head and forces it to work for himself.