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The Day the World Ended (1929)

by Sax Rohmer
(#3 in Gaston Max)

'From high above my head came a rhythmic whirring; not that of a flight of birds nor that of an airplane propeller: rather the amplified hum of a mosquito. I stood still and stared upwards.

'Descending with a hawklike motion was a gigantic bat!

'It had a sort of vague luminosity. The incredibly long body was of a gleaming purplish-gray color. The wing span was no less than four yards, the legless body was close upon six feet!'

Such was the start of an adventure in suspense, super-science, and sheer deviltry such as only Sax Rohmer could pen. The story of the plot to destroy all life on Earth is a page-by-page thriller you won't be able to put down.