Alexander M. Phillips 26 min read

Bloodied and cornered in a small cabin, officer Cargyle listens to the mutineers hunting his fellow officers through the corridors of the rocket ship, killing them one by one.

Alexander M. Phillips's 1940 story is a tense, atmospheric horror-tinged space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a taut shipboard yarn of mutiny and menace in deep space, where an outnumbered officer must fight for his life aboard a doomed vessel, in colorful early-pulp style.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leo Morey