Robert Moore Williams 40 min read

Death came out of a box and stalked the streets of Chicago, an ancient horror an archaeologist unwittingly carried home from a forgotten Sumerian king's tomb.

Robert Moore Williams's 1940 story is an atmospheric blend of hard SF and horror, unleashing an old evil on a modern city. Vivid, eerie golden-age SF. Read it for a chilling tale of a curse woken from an ancient tomb, spreading its silence and death through an unsuspecting metropolis.

In its time

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

Reading it

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