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Encounter
1959
First Published
3.27
Average Rating
142
Number of Pages

[Front Cover] "He Was A Destroyer From Another Planet—-Bent On Mastery Of The World" [Back Cover] "The space ship came plummeting out of the sky—-a soundless, streaking, purple glow, moving faster and faster until it ripped at the trees, crashed through them and struck sickeningly against a hill. Momentarily it flared brightly, then went out. It was not long after that the murders began—-strange, inexplicable deaths, all victims found with their heads crushed as if their skulls had exploded outward. The trail of victims led from Arkansas to Tennessee, to Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan—-sixteen unrelated people who had only one thing in common: All of their brains were withered, as if sucked dry of their contents... And somewhere wandered an evil stranger from another planet, his personality expanding, his brain power increasing, preparing for the inevitable encounter that could make him master of the world!"

Avg Rating
3.27
Number of Ratings
15
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author

J. Hunter Holly
Author · 8 books

Joan Carol Holly was a science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym J. Hunter Holly in the late 1950s until the mid-1970s. Joan Holly also contributed stories for Roger Elwood's series of books and sci-fi magazines, under both her real name(Joan C. Holly) and her pseudonym (Joan Hunter Holly). Joan died of lung cancer in 1982.

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