Paul Ernst 23 min read

There are two kinds of fear, of the known, and of the unknown, and a man in the grip of the first is about to learn the second.

Paul Ernst's 1937 story opens with a chilling meditation on terror before plunging Eldon Gruin from ordinary dread into incomprehensible horror. Atmospheric, dread-soaked weird fiction from a Weird Tales regular. Read it for classic golden-age horror that names the fear it means to deliver, and then delivers it.

In its time

Published in 1937, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Margaret Brundage