Henry Kuttner 1 hr read

Out of the dark comes Karkora, the Pallid One, a Presence from the Outside, rotting the souls of the kings of Cyrena, and only Elak of Atlantis can stand against it.

Henry Kuttner's 1941 story is a rousing entry in his Elak of Atlantis saga, a sword-and-sorcery adventure in the vein of Robert E. Howard. Dark, colorful, fast-moving pulp fantasy. Read it for vivid Atlantean heroics against a cosmic evil, from a master working in Conan's tradition.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Hannes Bok