From the creator of the legendary Sherlock Holmes, the renowned writer Arthur Conan Doyle, comes a science fiction novella that keeps readers in suspense until the very last moment.
Also included in this volume is the horror story The Horror of the Heights, which transports us to the upper layers of the atmosphere, where unknown dangers lie in wait for daring pioneer aviators and their monoplanes.
As the twentieth century dawns and everything seems to promise progress and prosperity, a sudden cosmic threat strikes the planet. An invisible poisonous cloud envelops the atmosphere, threatening to wipe out all life on Earth.
Five people, trapped in a room in a rural English village, watch the world they once knew vanish within minutes as they struggle to survive among countless dead bodies.
