Gardner F. Fox 40 min read

Clark Travis should have listened to the spacemen who called Flormaseron a hellhole, for now the red-glowing arklings are coming, and he flees into the labyrinth of an ancient dead city.

Gardner F. Fox's 1948 story is a rousing horror-tinged space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp adventure of a lone spaceman fleeing monstrous alien horrors through the twisting ruins of a dead world, in the fast-moving, wonder-and-dread style of the classic space-adventure magazines.

In its time

Published in 1948, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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