Desmond Winter Hall 12 min read

On a broiling New York day, a giant of a man walks out of a Washington Square townhouse, and keeps growing.

Desmond Winter Hall's 1932 story stills the heat-drugged city as a figure of impossible size strides into the square, transfixing everyone who sees him. A vivid, elegiac piece of early-thirties SF about a scientist's terrible transformation and its meaning. Read it for atmospheric pulp-era tragedy, painted with real feeling for the sweltering city and the lonely genius at its center.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

12 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Hans Waldemar Wessolowski