Leigh Brackett 47 min read

Down to his last five dollars and quart of Scotch, jilted and fired, cynical reporter Webb Fallon plays volleyball on the beach to sweat off a hangover, as something terrible rises from the sea.

Leigh Brackett's 1942 story blends hard-boiled noir with post-apocalyptic horror as monstrous hordes emerge from the ocean. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a washed-up newsman faces the end of the world rising out of the Pacific.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John Giunta