Ray Cummings 55 min read

On the night of his twenty-first birthday, as a party laughs downstairs, Lee Anthony sits at the bedside of the dying old woman who raised him, and stands on the threshold of an astounding secret.

Ray Cummings's 1942 story is a rousing psi-powers adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn where a young man's coming-of-age and a dying woman's secret open onto a strange world beyond our own, in a fast-moving tale of wonder and peril from a pioneer of the genre.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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