Edmond Hamilton 41 min read

The world's foremost paleontologist, Dr. Walter Morton, vanishes under sensational circumstances, the first sign of a staggering, deadly invasion that leaps out upon an unsuspecting Earth.

Edmond Hamilton's 1929 story is a rousing first-contact horror tale. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for an early Hamilton yarn of catastrophe and cosmic menace, where a scientist's disappearance heralds an assault from the unknown, told with the breathless doom-laden scale that made him a master of pulp SF.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hugh Rankin