Paul Ernst 46 min read

On a beautiful Maine bay, a gleaming new millionaires' resort rises where a year ago there was only a drawing-board, until a dread paralysis begins to fall upon its people.

Paul Ernst's 1936 story is an atmospheric pulp horror of a creeping menace stalking a perfect town. Vivid, sinister, fast-moving. Read it for a chilling tale where a lavish summer paradise becomes the hunting ground of an unseen, paralyzing death.

In its time

Published in 1936, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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