Bowman hooked it on the hawser arm above.

The Tentacles From Below

A COMPLETE NOVELETTE

By Anthony Gilmore

CHAPTER I

"Machine-Fish"

ull stop. Rest ready."

These words glowed in vivid red against the black background of the NX-1's control order-board. A wheel was spun over, a lever pulled back, and in the hull of the submarine descended the peculiar silence found only in mile-deep waters. Men rested at their posts, eyes alert.

Down to tremendous ocean depths goes Commander Keith Wells in his blind duel with the marauding "machine-fish."