Archive for the ‘The Terror from the Other Dimension!’ Category

In preparation for the coming invasion, the nations of the world joined together in common purpose for the first time in human history, the reporter typed. To the front line of this global battlefield — the now-fabled coordinates of 39o 25′ North, 141o 47′ West — every navy in the Pacific, including the mystery-shrouded Soviet [...]

And with that, the race to Earth was on, typed the reporter. Who would win? The pokey little Navy blimp and its gallant crew, or the awesome fleet of sleek, powerful flying saucers? The reporter paused, picked up the tumbler next to his war-scarred Remington, and drained the last of his scotch. After a few [...]

The sudden appearance of the invading fleets of flying saucers made the threat to our planet — and, not incidentally, to the crew of the airship — suddenly and horribly manifest, typed the reporter, his hands flying across the keyboard quickly now, the ding-zip-bang of each typewritten line coming faster than the one before. Time [...]

Now began the race against the clock, to execute Professor Abbot’s daring plan before it was too late. For the aliens, too, were busy making plans — plans to descend upon the Earth in force now that their advance scouting parties had revealed mankind’s most advanced weapons to be pitifully weak against their flying saucers [...]

This was the fateful moment, typed the reporter at full speed. At last, Captain Darrow and the crew of the Peregrine were face to face with the alien creatures that had brought them to this mysterious outpost. Outnumbered and with nowhere to go, the humans had only their old-fashioned American ingenuity to count on. Would [...]

The reporter paused to refill his drink and collect his thoughts, which swirled like the smooth brown liquor in his thick-walled tumbler. Then, having collected the right words and assembled them in a way that he liked, he swallowed the drink in a single gulp and resumed typing in the rapid-fire staccato of a veteran [...]

Who were the mysterious creatures responsible for sending the flying saucers to attack Mother Earth? the reporter resumed typing after relighting the cigarette he had let burn out. Were they physical giants with super strength? Or small like children but with gigantic mental powers? Whatever their physical and mental prowess, Captain Darrow and the crew [...]

For mankind’s first terrifying steps away from Mother Earth into the realm of the stars, you would be hard-pressed to pick a more unlikely crew, the reporter typed. A team of tired Naval aviators led by a wisecracking daredevil captain, guided by a radar genius still wet behind the ears, and carrying as guests a [...]

Alone above a barren patch of the Pacific, with help still days away, the eighteen men and two women of the Peregrine were surprised to find themselves face-to-face with a squadron of flying saucers whose destructive power was beyond any weapon known to man short of atomic fury, typed the reporter as he finally began [...]

As the Navy airship Peregrine sped through the night to reach the barren spot over the Pacific Ocean from which the hostile alien spacecraft were appearing, the civilized nations of the earth — now suddenly and warily united in the face a common threat — eagerly awaited any news of what the ship might find [...]