Astounding Stories part 17

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?...