VOL. IV, No. 2 CONTENTS November, 1930
Reading edition
COVER DESIGNH. W. WESSOLOWSKI
Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "The Pirate Planet."
THE WALL OF DEATH VICTOR ROUSSEAU 151
Out of the Antarctic It Came—a Wall of Viscid, Grey, Half-Human Jelly, Absorbing and Destroying All Life That It Encountered.
THE PIRATE PLANET CHARLES W. DIFFIN 168
A Strange Light Blinks on Venus, and Over Old Earth Hovers a Mysterious Visitant—Dread Harbinger of Interplanetary War. (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.)
THE DESTROYER WILLIAM MERRIAM ROUSE 198
Slowly, Insidiously, There Stole Over Allen Parker Something Uncanny. He Could No Longer Control His Hands—Even His Brain!
THE GRAY PLAGUE L. A. ESHBACH 210
Maimed and Captive, in the Depths of an Interplanetary Meteor-Craft, Lay the Only Possible Savior of Plague-Ridden Earth.
JETTA OF THE LOWLANDS RAY CUMMINGS 230
Black-Garbed Figures Move in Ghastly Greenness As the Invisible Flyer Speeds on Its Business of Ransom. (Conclusion.)
VAGABONDS OF SPACE HARL VINCENT 244
From the Depths of the Sargasso Sea of Space Came the Thought-Warning, "Turn Back!" But Carr and His Martian Friend Found It Was Too Late! (A Complete Novelette.)
THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 271
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