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قراءة كتاب Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930
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ASTOUNDING
STORIES
OF SUPER-SCIENCE
20¢
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| VOL. II, No. 1 | CONTENTS | APRIL, 1930 |
| COVER DESIGN | H. W. WESSOLOWSKI | |
| Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "Monsters of Moyen." | ||
| THE MAN WHO WAS DEAD | THOMAS H. KNIGHT | 9 |
| As Jerry's Eyes Fell on the Creature's Head, He Shuddered—for the Face Was Nothing but Bone, with Dull-brown Skin Stretched Taut over It. A Skeleton That Was Alive! | ||
| MONSTERS OF MOYEN | ARTHUR J. BURKS | 18 |
| "The Western World Shall be Next!" Was the Dread Ultimatum of the Half-monster, Half-god Moyen. | ||
| VAMPIRES OF VENUS | ANTHONY PELCHER | 47 |
| Leslie Larner, an Entomologist Borrowed from the Earth, Pits Himself Against the Night-flying Vampires That Are Ravaging the Inhabitants of Venus. | ||
| BRIGANDS OF THE MOON | RAY CUMMINGS | 60 |
| Out of Awful Space Tumbled the Space-ship Planetara Towards the Moon, Her Officers Dead, With Bandits at Her Helm—and the Controls Out of Order! | ||
| THE SOUL SNATCHER | TOM CURRY | 101 |
| From Twenty Miles Away Stabbed the "Atom-filtering" Rays to Allen Baker in His Cell in the Death House. | ||
| THE RAY OF MADNESS | CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK | 112 |
| Dr. Bird Uncovers a Dastardly Plot, Amazing in its Mechanical Ingenuity, Behind the Apparently Trivial Eye Trouble of the President. | ||
| THE READERS' CORNER | ALL OF US | 127 |
| A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. | ||
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The Man Who
Was Dead
By Thomas H. Knight
"I was dead."
It was a wicked night, the night I met the man who had died. A bitter, heart-numbing night of weird, shrieking wind and flying snow. A few black hours I will never forget.
"Well, Jerry, lad!" my mother said to me as I pushed back from the table and started for my sheepskin coat and the lantern in the corner of the room. "Surely you're not going out a night like this? Goodness gracious, Jerry, it's not fit!"
"Can't help it, Mother," I replied. "Got to go. You've never seen me miss a Saturday night yet, have you now?"
"No. But then I've never seen a night like this for years either. Jerry, I'm really afraid. You may freeze before you even get as far as—"
"Ah, come now, Mother," I argued. "They'd guy me to death if I didn't sit in with the gang to-night. They'd chaff me because it was too cold for me to get out. But I'm no pampered sissy, you know, and I want to