Hayden Howard 23 min read

In a nuclear submarine beneath the Arctic, a diver readies his two-cockpit mini-sub, while one of the men in the room, grinning to himself, is quietly planning murder.

Hayden Howard's 1960 story builds a tense first-contact and horror tale in the claustrophobic depths under the polar ice. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping submarine thriller where a killer bides his time and something stranger waits in the black water below.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

23 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Jack Gaughan