The World Behind the Moon by Paul Ernst

2023-04-20

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ASTOUNDING

STORIES

20¢

On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month

W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher HARRY BATES, Editor DR. DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor

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;

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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

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

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

Professor Lambert Deliberately Ventures into a Vibrational Dimension to Join His Fiancée in Its Magnetic Torture-Fields.

THE WORLD BEHIND THE MOON

PAUL ERNST

Two Intrepid Earth-Men Fight It Out with the Horrific Monsters of Zeud's Frightful Jungles.

FOUR MILES WITHIN

ANTHONY GILMORE

Far Down into the Earth Goes a Gleaming Metal Sphere Whose Passengers Are Deadly Enemies. (A Complete Novelette.)

THE LAKE OF LIGHT

JACK WILLIAMSON

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