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Terror Out of Space is a science fiction novella by Leigh Brackett.
An eerie story of a silver land beneath the black Venusian seas. A grim tale of brooding terror whirling out of space to drive men mad, of a menace without name or form, and of the man, Lundy, who fought the horror, his eyes blinded by his will. For to see the terror was to become its slave — a mindless automaton whose only wish was to see behind the shadowed mysterious eyelids of “IT”.
Terror Out of Space was first published in Planet Stories magazine in 1944. E-book: ePUB, 11.000 words, reading time approximately 1 hour. 
Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915–1978) was an American author, particularly of science fiction, and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on such films as The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959) and The Long Goodbye (1973). She was the first woman shortlisted for the Hugo Award.