Frederic Arnold Kummer 25 min read

On Ceres' frigid Darkside, months of eternal dark and near-absolute cold have etched worry into Ken Grant's face, and now a second man has vanished, his suit-heater long dead.

Frederic Arnold Kummer's 1941 story is an atmospheric space-opera adventure of terror on a frozen asteroid. Vivid, chilling golden-age pulp. Read it for a moody tale of men disappearing one by one in the killing dark of Ceres, and the dread that hangs over the disabled ship.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leo Morey