Hal K. Wells 33 min read

A persistent nightmare of battling a giant blue-bottle fly rouses Don Foster after midnight, until he realizes the high-pitched droning buzz is no dream-echo, but an actual sound within the camp.

Hal K. Wells's 1932 story is an atmospheric lost-world and adventure tale of desert menace. Vivid, eerie golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing pulp yarn where a man's nightmare bleeds into waking reality, drawing him toward a hidden cavern and the strange, shining beings that dwell within it.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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