Sam Carson 35 min read

Bob Winslow should be elated over his promotion, but instead he feels a cold, invisible fear trailing him as a storm silhouettes the skyline in sheet lightning.

Sam Carson's 1940 story is an atmospheric space-opera and time-travel tale of dread and discovery. Vivid, eerie golden-age pulp. Read it for a moody story where a brilliant young researcher's triumph is shadowed by an unseen menace, and a new-found light-stream opens onto something that should not be.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Bill Edwards