Terror Out of Space (Version 2)

Beneath the sulfuric clouds of Venus lies a silver world no human was meant to see. When explorer Lundy descends to the sunless depths of the Venusian seas, he finds an ancient civilization of impossible architecture and something else. Something that waits in the black water, a terror without name or form that seizes the minds of those who glimpse it. To look upon it is to become its slave, a hollow thing obsessed only with seeing more. Lundy must battle not only the alien horror but the men around him as they succumb one by one, their eyes going blank, their wills erased. The only defense is blindness itself: to refuse to see, even as the thing whispers from the void. But how do you fight an enemy that uses your own vision against you? This is Brackett at her most unsettling: a planetary adventure that transforms into genuine cosmic dread. For readers who like their science fiction with teeth, their pulp with genuine terror.