Henry Hasse 33 min read

Twenty-three years alone on an isolated outpost in the black of space, Hype Garth wakes minutes before each message comes through, and finds himself, tonight, suddenly hating his partner.

Henry Hasse's 1941 story is a tense, atmospheric horror-tinged space opera. Vivid, brooding golden-age pulp. Read it for a moody pulp yarn of isolation and dread in deep space, where long confinement and a sinister influence work on two men's minds, in a colorful tale of menace among the stars.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hannes Bok