Carl Jacobi 21 min read

By seven Earth-time, the first plague city of Profaldo lies ahead in the grey light, an opalescent aura about its spires, and one man readies his coil of volocized wire for a secret entrance.

Carl Jacobi's 1946 story is an atmospheric colonization and adventure tale by a Weird Tales veteran. Vivid, moody golden-age pulp. Read it for a tense, exotic story where a lone operative infiltrates a quarantined alien city, carrying a hidden device and a dangerous purpose into the plague-stricken streets.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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