Ray Cummings 43 min read

It began one summer evening in 1965, as a young man sat listening to music with his sweetheart, never noticing the furtive man and his weird little companion watching the pair of young lovers.

Ray Cummings's 1941 story is a fast, atmospheric space-opera and horror tale of an alien menace stalking Earth. Colorful, suspenseful golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing story that opens on a romantic evening and spirals into peril among the asteroids.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul