Sewell Peaslee Wright 35 min read

Retired Commander John Hanson, dismissed by cocky youngsters as a crotchety old man, settles in to spin a yarn of the old Patrol days, and a horror that fed on ships in the dark of space.

Sewell Peaslee Wright's 1932 story is a rousing horror-tinged space opera from the popular Commander Hanson series. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp adventure framed as an old spaceman's reminiscence, where the Special Patrol Service confronts a life-draining menace among the stars, in the lively, yarn-spinning style of the classic space-opera magazines.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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