People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Cosmic Horror, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction
Fiction:Science Fiction
ASTOUNDING
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VOL. VI, No. 1 CONTENTS April, 1931
COVER DESIGN
H. W. WESSO
Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Monsters of Mars."
MONSTERS OF MARS
EDMOND HAMILTON
4
Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long Had Barred the Greedy Hordes of the Red Planet. (A Complete Novelette.)
THE EXILE OF TIME
RAY CUMMINGS
26
From Somewhere Out of Time Come a Swarm of Robots Who Inflict on New York the Awful Vengeance of the Diabolical Cripple Tugh. (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.)
HELL'S DIMENSION
TOM CURRY
51
Professor Lambert Deliberately Ventures into a Vibrational Dimension to Join His Fiancée in Its Magnetic Torture-Fields.
THE WORLD BEHIND THE MOON
PAUL ERNST
64
Two Intrepid Earth-Men Fight It Out with the Horrific Monsters of Zeud's Frightful Jungles.
FOUR MILES WITHIN
ANTHONY GILMORE
76
Far Down into the Earth Goes a Gleaming Metal Sphere Whose Passengers Are Deadly Enemies. (A Complete Novelette.)
THE LAKE OF LIGHT
JACK WILLIAMSON
100
In the Frozen Wastes at the Bottom of the World Two Explorers Find a Strange Pool of White Fire—and Have a Strange Adventure.
THE GHOST WORLD
SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT
118
Commander John Hanson Records Another of His Thrilling Interplanetary Adventures with the Special Patrol Service.
THE READERS' CORNER
ALL OF US
134
A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.
YEGG-HA/ Ken Hite talks Post-Apocalyptia/Dark Dungeons
Geeky Crossroads: Pulp history & Archetypes
XICLOTL/Mantango
Alien franchise, lesser known canon
WORMIUS, OLAUS/Hellboy(2004)
Geeky Crossroads: Cyberpunk orgins and definitions
WORM THAT WALKS/Mouth of Madness
Dave's Geeky Crossroads #1 John Houlihan of Modiphius Entertainment
The Witch House/GhostbustersI(1984)
WILMARTH, ALBERT/The Wicker Man
The Whatley Family/John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
WARREN, HARLEY, and Werner Hertzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre(1979)
The WAITES/2023/Shape of Water(AKA FISH F*CKERs 2023)
THOTH-AMON/The Death of Edgar Allan Poe/Danny Boyle’s Sunshine
TULZSCHA/Sonia Greene/Annihilation
THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN/The Death of Poe part 1/Nightmare on Elm St. 4
The Epiphany of Death/Necromancy by Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith’s Prose Pastels II-V
TINDALOS/The Jilting of Granny Weatherall/A Doom Comes to Gotham
Prose Pastels I. Chinoiserie
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