Corpses, corpses everywhere... a carpet of cadavers lies spread out over the world. A deadly purple cloud, smelling deceptively of peach blossom, has engulfed everything. All men have perished. Except one - Adam Jeffson, sole survivor of a Polar Expedition, who by his unconscious folly had unleashed the lethal vapour. Now, with the resources of a deserted world at his disposal, he runs wild - and insane. He loots senselessly, burns whole cities and, during seventeen years of crazed religious zeal, builds a grotesque palace-temple. Then, prompted by mysterious disembodied voices, Adam sets out once more on a voyage of discovery. And finds a strange Eve...

"Tremendous power" [H. H. Lovecraft]