Carl Jacobi 22 min read

Two weeks through the Blue Mold Swamp bring a disgraced man to a lonely jetty, where three Earthmen are waiting for him.

Carl Jacobi's 1943 story drifts its exhausted paddler through the perils of a Venusian marsh to a half-way station and an unexpected, ominous reunion. Vivid, atmospheric jungle-Venus pulp from a reliable pulp craftsman. Read it for evocative golden-age adventure steeped in the swampy, dangerous Venus of the 1940s magazines.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Joseph Doolin