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| VOL. I, No. 2 | CONTENTS | FEBRUARY, 1930 |
| COVER DESIGN | 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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