Astounding Stories, April, 1931

ASTOUNDING

STORIES

20¢

On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month

W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher               HARRY BATES, Editor               DR. DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor

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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, WESTERN ADVENTURES, and WESTERN LOVE STORIES.

More than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for Clayton Magazines.

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VOL. VI, No. 1                      CONTENTS                       April, 1931

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COVER DESIGN     H. W. WESSO        
Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Monsters of Mars."        
MONSTERS OF MARS     EDMOND HAMILTON           4
Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long Had Barred the Greedy Hordes of the Red Planet. (A Complete Novelette.)        
THE EXILE OF TIME     RAY CUMMINGS           26
From Somewhere Out of Time Come a Swarm of Robots Who Inflict on New York the Awful Vengeance of the Diabolical Cripple Tugh. (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.)        
HELL'S DIMENSION     TOM CURRY           51
Professor Lambert Deliberately Ventures into a Vibrational Dimension to Join His Fiancée in Its Magnetic Torture-Fields.        
THE WORLD BEHIND THE MOON     PAUL ERNST           64
Two Intrepid Earth-Men Fight It Out with the Horrific Monsters of Zeud's Frightful Jungles.        
FOUR MILES WITHIN     ANTHONY GILMORE           76
Far Down into the Earth Goes a Gleaming Metal Sphere Whose Passengers Are Deadly Enemies. (A Complete Novelette.)        
THE LAKE OF LIGHT     JACK WILLIAMSON           100
In the Frozen Wastes at the Bottom of the World Two Explorers Find a Strange Pool of White Fire—and Have a Strange Adventure.        
THE GHOST WORLD     SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT           118
Commander John Hanson Records Another of His Thrilling Interplanetary Adventures with the Special Patrol Service.        
THE READERS' CORNER     ALL OF US           134
A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.        

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