The Life - Masters

A strange gray slime begins washing up on beaches near New York, first dismissed as a curiosity before scientists identify it as living protoplasm, the primal substance of life itself. Dr. Almeric Barr's explosive claim sparks a global controversy over whether life has spontaneously formed again, or whether the substance has risen from some buried ancient source beneath the sea. As experts argue and the public grows impatient, the World Science Association turns to celebrated biologist Dr. Herbert Munson, whose remote island laboratory hides an experiment of staggering ambition. Meanwhile, ordinary New Yorker Edward Worley is the first to witness the nightmare in motion: a gray, jelly-like mass rising from the water, attacking with tentacle-like arms, and absorbing anyone who tries to stop it. Soon the living tide overruns streets, buildings, and entire cities, shrugging off bullets, grenades, gas, and aircraft as humanity reels toward collapse. When young scientist Ernest Ralton flies north to Cone Island, he discovers that Munson and his team may be the ones who unleashed the catastrophe while seeking the origin of life through a device meant to recreate the first protoplasm. Suspense, scientific hubris, and apocalyptic horror drive this classic tale of a mindless life-form consuming the world. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.