Henry Kuttner 5 min read

Far beyond Betelgeuse, on the green and joyous world of Bel Yarnak, a fireside tale is told of a malignant being that once dwelt in the dread abyss called the Gray Gulf of Yarnak.

Henry Kuttner's 1937 story is an atmospheric cosmic fantasy-horror tale. Lush, dreamlike, superbly told. Read it for a jewel of exotic weird fantasy in the Dunsanian mode, a tale of soul-devouring evil and heroism on a wondrous alien world beyond the giant stars, told with the rich, incantatory beauty of Kuttner at his most imaginative.

In its time

Published in 1937, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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