The Lorelei 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 helplessly lured into the planetoid, too. As Jark and his crew of lonely spacefarers land, they note the eyes of the carved face contain jewels. As they greedily move toward them, a trapdoor opens, and the three men fall into an enormous web of Giant Spiders. The spiders wrap up Jark’s fellows first, leaving him enough time to retrieve his knife and cut himself free of the web. Captain 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 that targeted the one gender. She asks if there are more men with him, and he tells her there are two trapped in spider webs above. 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 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 helplessly lured into the planetoid, too. As Jark and his crew of lonely spacefarers land, they note the eyes of the carved face contain jewels. As they greedily move toward them, a trapdoor opens, and the three men fall into an enormous web of Giant Spiders. The spiders wrap up Jark’s fellows first, leaving him enough time to retrieve his knife and cut himself free of the web. Captain 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 that targeted the one gender. She asks if there are more men with him, and he tells her there are two trapped in spider webs above. 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.
