![]() ![]() In this first outing, something is turning people into fungoid monstrosities, driven to kill is the secret a new technology run amuck? The leftovers of a Nazi experiment finally come to fruition? Or something else entirely? Kirk and his staff have just a short time to learn the truth and seek a cure, if, in fact, a cure is possible. Borrowing liberally from the British eco-disaster novels of such masters of the form as John Wyndham, Blackburn laid bare the terrors of the Cold War for all to see. Starting with this present entry, Blackburn chronicled the adventures of General Kirk of the British Foreign Service in a series of novels that combined the tropes of science fiction, mystery, the occult, and most of all, bone-chilling horror. In the late 1950s, the espionage novel, (with Ian Fleming’s James Bond as the standard bearer), was an international success, but horror fans had their own champion, John F. Ryan and others mixed genres and came up with truly memorable and unsettling results. The British thriller, replete with supernatural or science-fictional elements, had its heyday in the years just prior to WWII, when authors such as Walter S. ![]()
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