The Lorelei planetoid is a barren, rocky planetoid with an enormous face of a beautiful woman carved on its surface. Captain Jark Hudson sees the monument, recalling the Greek legend of the Lorelei who lured Ulysses. Like the legend, he is hopelessly lured into the planetoid. As Hudson and his crew of lonely spacefarers land, they note the eyes of the carved face contain jewels. Greedily, they move toward them. A trapdoor opens beneath them, and the men fall into an enormous web of Giant Spiders. The spiders wrap up Hudson’s fellows first, leaving him enough time to retrieve his knife and cut himself free of the web. Hudson finds a narrow passageway leading to an enormous underground city. At first, he only finds statues of people. One particular statue of a woman intrigues him. It beckons him into a vast tomb filled with women in hermetically-sealed tubes. He awakens one of the women, who telepathically explains that all the men of their race died in a terrible plague. She asks if there are more men with him, and he tells her there are two trapped in a spider web. Returning with blasters, they are able to easily exterminate the spiders. Both men are saved. The woman asks if they will stay, and the decision is not difficult for the lonely men.
Description The Lorelei planetoid is a barren, rocky planetoid with an enormous face of a beautiful woman carved on its surface. Captain Jark Hudson sees the monument, recalling the Greek legend of the Lorelei who lured Ulysses. Like the legend, he is hopelessly lured into the planetoid. As Hudson and his crew of lonely spacefarers land, they note the eyes of the carved face contain jewels. Greedily, they move toward them. A trapdoor opens beneath them, and the men fall into an enormous web of Giant Spiders. The spiders wrap up Hudson’s fellows first, leaving him enough time to retrieve his knife and cut himself free of the web. Hudson finds a narrow passageway leading to an enormous underground city. At first, he only finds statues of people. One particular statue of a woman intrigues him. It beckons him into a vast tomb filled with women in hermetically-sealed tubes. He awakens one of the women, who telepathically explains that all the men of their race died in a terrible plague. She asks if there are more men with him, and he tells her there are two trapped in a spider web. Returning with blasters, they are able to easily exterminate the spiders. Both men are saved. The woman asks if they will stay, and the decision is not difficult for the lonely men.
