Now, Mr. Jones, having obtained your promise of inviolable secrecy,
I come down to the essential point. It is this-- that the world upon
which we live is itself a living organism, endowed, as I believe, with
a circulation, a respiration, and a nervous system of its own.
Professor Challenger
When the Earth Screamed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1929)
You would think that the
one thing you could trust would be the ground under your feet.
Okay, it might shift a bit in an earthquake, or belch molten lava at
you, or drop away in a sink hole, but... Come to think of it, ground
is pretty treacherous stuff.
Be that as it may, one thing you do not expect it to do is act as a
haven for radioactive blob monsters that burrow up from the centre of
the Earth in search of nuclear fuel to munch on. Rising damp is
one thing, but this is ridiculous. But that's what happens in
X the Unknown (1956) and Scotland faces the greatest threat it
would ever know until devolution.
You would think that the
one thing you could trust would be the ground under your feet.
Okay, it might shift a bit in an earthquake, or belch molten lava at
you, or drop away in a sink hole, but... Come to think of it, ground
is pretty treacherous stuff.