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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
·
Various
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The
creature
rocked
where
it
stood,
raised
its
voice
in
a
screech,
and
rushed
forward
again,
arms
flailing.
And
this
time
Nat
got
home.
The
streak
passed
right
through
the
body
of
the
monster,
which
collapsed
into
a
heap
of
calcined
carbon.
But
its
screech
had
brought
the
other
dwarfs
running
to
the
scene.
In
a
moment
the
path
was
blocked
by
a
score
of
the
hideous
monsters,
which,
taking
in
what
was
happening,
came
forward
in
a
yelling
bunch.
The
ray-rods
streaked
their
message
of
death
into
the
thick
of
them.
Yet
so
fierce
was
the
rush
that
some
parts
got
home.
Arms,
legs,
and
barrel
chests,
halves
of
men,
covering
the
five
with
that
impalpable
black
powder
into
which
their
bodies
were
dissolving.
Nat
remembered
afterward
the
horror
of
a
grinning
face,
apparently
loose
in
the
air,
and
a
flailing
arm
that
lashed
his
chest.
For
fifteen
seconds,
perhaps,
it
was
like
struggling
with
some
vampire
creatures
in
a
hideous
dream.
And
then,
just
when
it
seemed
to
Nat
that
he
was
going
mad,
he
found
the
path
free,
and
the
huddled
remnants
of
the
Moon
men
piled
up
about
him
on
every
side.
He
emptied
two
more
ray-shots
into
the
writhing
mass,
and
saw
it
cease
to
quiver
and
then
dissolve
into
the
black
powder.
He
turned
and
looked
at
his
companions.
They,
too,
showed
the
horror
of
the
strain
they
had
undergone.
"We
must
kill
the
guards
now,"
Nat
panted.
"And
then
find
Madge
and
save
her."
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