Flame Mass

They dragged the screaming stranger into the asylum. His talk of Fire Gods, and universal conquests seemed the ultimate in illusions. Next morning the padded cell was burnt out... and there was no trace of the prisoner. The door was still locked: the door still barred.

Perhaps the arson that followed was just coincidence?

But does fire break out for no reason at all?

The Brigade Chiefs called in a special investigator. No result. Finally the I.F.P. took a hand and the subsequent investigations pointed to extra galactic interference.

When the psychiatrist, who had originally examined the mysterious "fire god" as questioned a second time, things began to add up. Those wild, strange words, had not been the ravings of a maniac but the diabolical threat of an alien entity. A thing with unbelievable power... that threatened the universe itself!

The breath-taking climax of this superb, authentic science fiction thriller is another brilliant plot from to-day's leading British science fiction author, R. L. Fanthorpe, a senior member of the British Interplanetary Society.