Sponsored by: Copper Cow Coffee Vietnamese Pour Over Coffee Donner Musical Instuments Student Instruments  Glarry Guitars Inexpensive Guitars  Golden Goat CBD CBD & Delta 8 Edibles    Share a Sale Get your podcast or website Sponsored Taza Stone Ground Chocolate   The Clayton Standard on a Magazine Guarantees: That the stories therein are clean, interesting, vivid, by leading writers of the day and purchased under conditions approved by the Authors’ League of America; That such magazines are manufactured in Union shops by American workmen; That each newsdealer and agent is insured a fair profit; That an intelligent censorship guards their advertising pages. The other Clayton magazines are: ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE, RANCH ROMANCES, COWBOY STORIES, CLUES, FIVE-NOVELS MONTHLY, ALL STAR DETECTIVE STORIES, RANGELAND LOVE STORY MAGAZINE, WESTERN ADVENTURES, and WESTERN LOVE STORIES. More Than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for Clayton Magazines. VOL. V, No. 1 CONTENTS JANUARY, 1931 COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSO   Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in “The Gate to Xoran.”     THE DARK SIDE OF ANTRI SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 9 Commander John Hanson Relates an Interplanetary Adventure Illustrating the Splendid Service Spirit of the Men of the Special Patrol.     THE SUNKEN EMPIRE H. THOMPSON RICH 24 Concerning the Strange Adventures of Professor Stevens with the Antillians on the Floor of the Mysterious Sargasso Sea.     THE GATE TO XORAN HAL K. WELLS 46 A Strange Man of Metal Comes to Earth on a Dreadful Mission.     THE EYE OF ALLAH C. D. WILLARD 58 On the Fatal Seventh of September a Certain Secret Service Man Sat in the President’s Chair and—Looked Back into the Eye of Allah.     THE FIFTH-DIMENSION CATAPULT MURRAY LEINSTER 72 The Story of Tommy Reames’ Extraordinary Rescue of Professor Denham and his Daughter—Marooned in the Fifth Dimension. (A Complete Novelette.)     THE PIRATE PLANET CHARLES W. DIFFIN 109 Two Fighting Yankees—War-Torn Earth’s Sole Representatives on Venus—Set Out to Spike the Greatest Gun of All Time. (Part Three of a Four-Part Novel.)     THE READERS’ CORNER ALL OF US 132 A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.       Podbean Amazon Apple Stitcher Facebook Our Patreon