Frank Belknap Long 18 min read

Stranded and dying of thirst on a barren shore, emaciated Bill Cullen and his cowardly, fox-eared companion Van Wyck face the sea, despair, and a red fetish that draws them toward horror.

Frank Belknap Long's 1930 story is an atmospheric adventure-horror tale. Vivid, eerie golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of castaways, dread, and a sinister native talisman, where desperation and the supernatural entwine on a hostile shore, in the moody, menace-laden style of the classic weird-adventure magazines.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

C. C. Senf