Henry Kuttner 58 min read

Fleeing through the forest gloom with a thousand glittering alien eyes racing past him, his lifeblood sucked away by the gelid cold, a man hears a voice command: crush the heart of the Watcher.

Henry Kuttner's 1946 story is an atmospheric horror-tinged space opera. Vivid, dread-soaked golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful, nightmarish Planet Stories yarn of a man hunted by an eerie alien menace and driven to destroy the monstrous Watcher, in the fast-moving, wonder-and-horror style of the classic space-adventure magazines, from a master of the pulps.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hollingsworth