When a young boy tells Don that he's seen a ghost, Don only laughs. There's no such thing as ghosts -- and the little boy probably saw a reflection. But to prove the little boy wrong, Don and his friend go to the hill where the boy says that the ghost floated towards him and through a rock. Don, however, brings his shotgun just in case -- after all, it could've been a wild animal of some kind. And when they discover that it wasn't a ghost at all, but something altogether different, they must defend themselves from the onslaught of these White Invaders -- or face annihilation of everyone they've ever known!

Author Biography

Ray Cummings (byname of Raymond King Cummings; 1887 - 1957) was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre." He was born in New York City and died in Mount Vernon, New York. Cummings worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914 to 1919. His most highly regarded work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom published in 1922, which was a consolidation of a short story by the same name published in 1919 (where Cummings combined the idea of Fitz James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with H. G. Wells's The Time Machine) and a sequel, The People of the Golden Atom, published in 1920. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson.