E. Hoffmann Price 1 hr 46 min read

Long past the hour of tinkling glass and song at the Café du Théâtre, an invisible scourge stirs, and a master of the weird tale unfolds a strange, thrilling story of the Orient and dark powers.

E. Hoffmann Price's 1934 Weird Tales story is an atmospheric adventure-horror tale by an acclaimed pulp craftsman. Vivid, exotic, superbly told. Read it for the work of a real soldier-of-fortune turned orientalist writer, rich, colorful weird fiction with an authentic feel for far places.

In its time

Published in 1934, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

1 hr 46 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Margaret Brundage