[Front Cover] "Alone on an alien planet where every living creature was an enemy." [Back Cover] "A place of crawling spiders and poisonous snakes where nightmares came true ...that was 'The Black,' where men were punished for challenging minds more powerful than their own. The detective from Earth feared The Black more than any torture his own planet could conceive. But he had to uncover the sinister plot that threatened Earth and all its people."
Author
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.
