THE SHORES OF SPACE

Artist uncredited.

"It was getting dark and he couldn't be sure of what he saw. He stood paralysed and numb, staring with blood-drained face at the thing that moved across the ground towards the man's body; the thing that had a shape, yet not shape, that crept like a current of shimmering jellies. A terrified gagging filled his throat. He tried to move, but couldn't. He didn't want to hear the hideous gurgling sound, the turbid bubbling that was like vats of boiling tallow. Then the man was gone from the earth. Les stared at the place where he had been, stared at the luminous mass that pulsated there. He stared at it until the man had been completely eaten..." 

Contains Being (excerpt above), Pattern For Survival, Steel, The Test, Clothes Make The Man, Blood Son, Trespass, When Day Is Dun, The Curious Child, The Funeral, The Last Day, Little Girl Lost, and The Doll That Does Everything.