Clifford D. Simak 44 min read

A Black Horror is stalking the Earth, wiping out a Pennsylvania hamlet, terrorizing London, killing at random, and no one knows what it is or how to stop it.

Clifford D. Simak's 1932 story, an early work by the future Grand Master, pits humanity against an eldritch, dimension-spanning menace. Vivid, imaginative pulp SF. Read it for an ambitious cosmic tale of a global horror and a desperate, mind-bending plan to confront it.

In its time

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

Reading it

44 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).