Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930

ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE 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; That such magazines are manufactured in Union shops by American workmen; That each newsdealer and agent is insured a fair profit; That an intelligent censorship guards their advertising pages. The other Clayton magazines are: ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE, RANCH ROMANCES, COWBOY STORIES, CLUES, FIVE-NOVELS MONTHLY, ALL STAR DETECTIVE STORIES, RANGELAND LOVE STORY MAGAZINE, and WESTERN ADVENTURES. More than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for Clayton Magazines. VOL. III, No. 2 CONTENTS AUGUST, 1930 COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "The Planet of Dread." THE PLANET OF DREAD R. F. STARZL 147 A Stupid Blunder--and Mark Forepaugh Faces a Lifetime of Castaway Loneliness in the Savage Welter of the Planet Inra's Monster-ridden Jungles. THE LORD OF SPACE VICTOR ROUSSEAU 158 A Black Caesar Had Arisen on Eros--and All Earth Trembled at His Distant Menace. THE SECOND SATELLITE EDMOND HAMILTON 175 Earth-men War on Frog-vampires for the Emancipation of the Human Cows of Earth's Second Satellite. (A Novelet.) SILVER DOME HARL VINCENT 192 In Her Deep-buried Kingdom of Theros, Phaestra Reveals the Amazing Secret of the Silver Dome. EARTH, THE MARAUDER ARTHUR J. BURKS 210 Deep in the Gnome-infested Tunnels of the Moon, Sarka and Jaska Are Brought to Luar the Radiant Goddess Against Whose Minions the Marauding Earth Had Struck in Vain. (Part Two of a Three-Part Novel.)