R. R. Winterbotham 22 min read

Limio hugs the dying fires of Chaos in the depths of a black hole, a vast monster of floating eyes and thousands of miles of body, who spies a rocket ship entering his lair and grunts, hungry.

R. R. Winterbotham's 1941 story is a colorful, outsized horror space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing cosmic-menace yarn told partly from the viewpoint of the monster itself, a titanic being lurking in a black hole, and the human ship that ventures into its jaws.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Don Lynch