William and Mary

In Roald Dahl's macabre short story, "William and Mary", a woman named Mary discovers a shocking secret about her recently deceased husband, William.

William, a domineering and intellectually arrogant man, had arranged with a doctor to have his brain kept alive after his death.

Mary is invited to witness the experiment and finds William's brain and one functioning eye preserved in a laboratory setting.

As Mary interacts with William's conscious brain, she begins to assert her independence and exact a subtle revenge on her controlling husband, now reduced to a disembodied consciousness.