Henry Kuttner 28 min read

Hunted out of the ancient Martian fortress of Klanvahr years ago, Samuel Dantan comes doggedly back through the baking night, a price on his head, beneath the double moons men call the Eyes of Thar.

Henry Kuttner's 1944 story is an atmospheric psi-powers space opera of Mars. Vivid, moody golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing planetary romance where a hunted outlaw returns to a desolate Martian land, drawn by vengeance and a strange power tied to the watching moons overhead.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Joseph Doolin