Edmond Hamilton 57 min read

'Where leads the Door?' 'It leads outside our world.' A police inspector recites a chilling liturgy of the Brotherhood of the Door to a baffled man whose wife has vanished.

Edmond Hamilton's 1936 story is a vivid, cosmic fantasy-horror tale of a sinister cult. Atmospheric, dread-soaked, superbly told. Read it for pulp Hamilton at his most Lovecraftian, a secret brotherhood that opens a doorway to Those Beyond, and one man's desperate plunge through it to save the woman he loves.

In its time

Published in 1936, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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