Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931

Various

The Dark Side of Antri

The Sunken Empire

The Eye of Allah

THE "TELELUX"

The Fifth-Dimension Catapult

The Pirate Planet

MYSTERIOUS CARLSBAD CAVERN

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VOL. V, No. 1	CONTENTS	JANUARY, 1931
COVER DESIGN	H. W. WESSO
Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in “The Gate to Xoran.”
THE DARK SIDE OF ANTRI	SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT	9
Commander John Hanson Relates an Interplanetary Adventure Illustrating the Splendid Service Spirit of the Men of the Special Patrol.
THE SUNKEN EMPIRE	H. THOMPSON RICH	24
Concerning the Strange Adventures of Professor Stevens with the Antillians on the Floor of the Mysterious Sargasso Sea.
THE GATE TO XORAN	HAL K. WELLS	46
A Strange Man of Metal Comes to Earth on a Dreadful Mission.
THE EYE OF ALLAH	C. D. WILLARD	58
On the Fatal Seventh of September a Certain Secret Service Man Sat in the President’s Chair and—Looked Back into the Eye of Allah.
THE FIFTH-DIMENSION CATAPULT	MURRAY LEINSTER	72
The Story of Tommy Reames’ Extraordinary Rescue of Professor Denham and his Daughter—Marooned in the Fifth Dimension. (A Complete Novelette.)
THE PIRATE PLANET	CHARLES W. DIFFIN	109
Two Fighting Yankees—War-Torn Earth’s Sole Representatives on Venus—Set Out to Spike the Greatest Gun of All Time. (Part Three of a Four-Part Novel.)
THE READERS’ CORNER	ALL OF US	132
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Two men in a cellar look at a gangly-limbed being sitting on the ground.

“Behold one of those who live in the darkness.”

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