Edmond Hamilton 39 min read

A clear, gray, jelly-like slime, faintly alive, is left along the beaches by the retreating tides near New York, the first, small sign of a doom the life-masters are about to loose upon the world.

Edmond Hamilton's 1930 story is a rousing hard-SF horror tale. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Hamilton catastrophe yarn where a creeping, living menace from the sea grows into a threat to all humanity, in the breathless, doom-laden style that made him a master of the pulp disaster and cosmic-menace story.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hugh Rankin