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Astounding Stories (Vol. VII No. 2 August, 1931); pulp science fiction and horror. In this issue: THE DANGER FROM THE DEEPRALPH MILNE FARLEY Marooned on the Sea-Floor, His Hoisting Cable Cut, Young Abbot Is Left at the Mercy of the Man-Sharks. BROOD OF THE DARK MOONCHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN Once More Chet, Walt and Diane Are United in a Wild Ride to the Dark Moon. But This Time They Go as Prisoners of Their Deadly Enemy Schwartzmann. (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.) IF THE SUN DIEDR. F. STARZL Tens of Millenniums After the Death of the Sun There Comes a Young Man Who Dares to Open the Frozen Gate of Subterranea. THE MIDGET FROM THE ISLANDH. G. WINTER Garth Howard, Prey to Half the Animals of the Forest, Fights Valiantly to Regain His Lost Five Feet of Size. A Complete Novelette.) THE MOON WEEDHARL VINCENT Unwittingly the Traitor of the Earth, Van Pits Himself Against the Inexorably Tightening Web of Plant-Beasts He Has Released from the Moon. THE PORT OF MISSING PLANESCAPTAIN S. P. MEEK In the Underground Caverns of the Selom, Dr. Bird Once Again Locks Wills with the Subversive Genius, Saranoff. THE READERS CORNERALL OF US