Erik Fennel 2 hr 7 min read

A crippled, stammering man blunders through a shower of sparks into another time and space, where a foul, beautiful witch and a dark power await a savior called Elvedon.

Erik Fennel's 1947 Planet Stories tale sends the unlikely Eldon Carmichael into a lovely little world menaced by the witch Sin and the Dark Power Sasso, whose only fear is a whispered legend. Vivid, romantic sword-and-planet pulp with a time-slip twist. Read it for colorful golden-age adventure and an improbable hero fulfilling a prophecy.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

2 hr 7 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Al McWilliams