Ten Million Years to Friday

THE BEAST

It began with the sound of a beating heart…four thousand feet below the surface of the earth. Something was living down there, in a strange void that refused to respond to science’s probings: an impossible life living in an impossible place. An impossible life that had known birth in a time before Earth’s fiery surfaces had cooled!

And now that life was awakening, stirring under the probe of a men who were unexplained…stirring, and preparing to come forth from its ages-old resting place. Men wanted to believe that the creature would be friendly…but it came from a world that existed before men were created.

How could it find kinship with such totally strange creatures…and would it even be able to recognize that men were intelligent, rational beings!