Includes the title story and six others. ".Had Northwest Smith, the famous outlaw of the spaceways, been able to foresee the future, he would not have shielded the frightened, scarlet-clad girl from the wild mob pursuing her through the narrow streets of Lakkdarol, Earth's latest colony of Mars. 'Shambleau! Shambleau!' the crowd cried with loathing and disgust, but Smith drove them off with his blaster and took the exhausted girl to his quarters. There was no hair upon her face -- neither brows nor lashes; but what lay hidden beneath the tight scarlet turban bound around her head?