By: A. Merritt

“The sparkling devil took them!”

By: A. Merritt

“Out from the Inexplicable swept a shining spiral.”

By: Frank L. Pollock

“I think it’s only beginning.”

By: A. Merritt

Ecstasy insupportable and horror unimaginable!

By: A. Merritt

“It knows you are here. It waits!”

By: Frank L. Pollock

It was the city’s last and useless attempt at resistance.

By: A. Merritt

“Their beliefs are gloomy, these Ponapeans.”

By: Frank L. Pollock

“By Jove, see it redden!”

By: A. Merritt

Within the mistiness was a core, a nucleus of intenser light…

By: A. Merritt

“Excessively menacing potentialities…”

By: Frank L. Pollock

Some error had been made in the calculations.

By: George C. Wallis

“Do not be too late with the fulminate, Alwyn.”

By: George C. Wallis

“Death is as certain out there as here.”

By: George C. Wallis

“I could not endure the Red Sphere except as we shall endure it — travelling.”

By: George C. Wallis

They stood before a sphere of bright red metal.