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Astounding Tales of Super-Science Jan/Feb 1930

People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Cosmic Horror, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction
People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Cosmic Horror, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction
Episode • Feb 2, 2022 • 41m



People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos


S15BE 1-23(February)

CONTENTS



VOL. I, No. 1&2




CONTENTS




Jan & Feb, 1930




EDITORIAL Jan 1930




 




7



An Introduction to a New and Unique Magazine.



THE BEETLE HORDE




VICTOR ROUSSEAU




8



Only Two Young Explorers Stand in the Way of the Mad Bram's Horrible Revenge—the Releasing of His Trillions of Man-sized Beetles upon an Utterly Defenseless World. (Part One of a Two-part Novel.)



THE CAVE OF HORROR




CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK




32



Screaming, the Guardsman Was Jerked Through the Air. An Unearthly Screech Rang Through the Cavern. The Unseen Horror of Mammoth Cave Had Struck Again!



PHANTOMS OF REALITY




RAY CUMMINGS




46



Red Sensua's Knife Came up Dripping—and the Two Adventurers Knew that Chaos and Bloody Revolution Had Been Unleashed in that Shadowy Kingdom of the Fourth Dimension. (A Complete Novel.)



THE STOLEN MIND




M. L. STALEY




75



What Would You Do, If, Like Quest, You Were Tricked, and Your Very Mind and Will Stolen from Your Body?



COMPENSATION




C. V. TENCH




92



Professor Wroxton Had Disappeared—But in the Bottom of the Mysterious Crystal Cage Lay the Diamond from His Ring!



TANKS




MURRAY LEINSTER




100



Two Miles of American Front Had Gone Dead. And on Two Lone Infantrymen, Lost in the Menace of the Fog-gas and the Tanks, Depended the Outcome of the War of 1932.



INVISIBLE DEATH




ANTHONY PELCHER




118



On Lees' Quick and Clever Action Depended the Life of "Old Perk" Ferguson, the Millionaire Manufacturer Threatened by the Uncanny, Invisible Killer.


 



Feb 1930




H. W. WESSOLOWSKI




 




Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "Spawn of the Stars."




 




 




OLD CROMPTON'S SECRET




HARL VINCENT




153




Tom's Extraordinary Machine Glowed—and the Years Were Banished from Old Crompton's Body. But There Still Remained, Deep-seated in His Century-old Mind, the Memory of His Crime.




 




 




SPAWN OF THE STARS




CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN




166




The Earth Lay Powerless Beneath Those Loathsome, Yellowish Monsters That, Sheathed in Cometlike Globes, Sprang from the Skies to Annihilate Man and Reduce His Cities to Ashes.




 




 




THE CORPSE ON THE GRATING




HUGH B. CAVE




187




In the Gloomy Depths of the Old Warehouse Dale Saw a Thing That Drew a Scream of Horror to His Dry Lips. It Was a Corpse—the Mold of Decay on Its Long-dead Features—and Yet It Was Alive!




 




 




CREATURES OF THE LIGHT




SOPHIE WENZEL ELLIS




196




He Had Striven to Perfect the Faultless Man of the Future, and Had Succeeded—Too Well. For in the Pitilessly Cold Eyes of Adam, His Super-human Creation, Dr. Mundson Saw Only Contempt—and Annihilation—for the Human Race.




 




 




INTO SPACE




STERNER ST. PAUL




221




What Was the Extraordinary Connection Between Dr. Livermore's Sudden Disappearance and the Coming of a New Satellite to the Earth?




 




 




THE BEETLE HORDE




VICTOR ROUSSEAU




229




Bullets, Shrapnel, Shell—Nothing Can Stop the Trillions of Famished, Man-sized Beetles Which, Led by a Madman, Sweep Down Over the Human Race.




 




 




MAD MUSIC




ANTHONY PELCHER




248




The Sixty Stories of the Perfectly Constructed Colossus Building Had Mysteriously Crashed! What Was the Connection Between This Catastrophe and the Weird Strains of the Mad Musician's Violin?




 




 




THE THIEF OF TIME




CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK




259




The Teller Turned to the Stacked Pile of Bills. They Were Gone! And No One Had Been Near!




 




 







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