Edmond Hamilton 44 min read

Only now, the terror past, can the tale be told, how Dr. Clinton's marine expedition drew up from the depths a dark horror that rose to whelm an unsuspecting world.

Edmond Hamilton's 1929 story is a rousing first-contact horror tale. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful early Hamilton catastrophe yarn where a menace from the ocean depths grows into a threat to all humanity, in the breathless, doom-laden style that made him a master of the pulp cosmic-menace story.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

C. C. Senf