A Bee’s Breath

06.03.2023 - By David Heath/DB Spitzer Play

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VOL. VI, No. 2 CONTENTS May, 1931

COVER DESIGN

H. W. WESSO

Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Dark Moon."

DARK MOON

CHARLES W. DIFFIN

148

Mysterious, Dark, Out of the Unknown Deep Comes a New Satellite to Lure Three Courageous Earthlings on to Strange Adventure. (A Complete Novelette.)

WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED

CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK

198

Only Dr. Bird's Super-Scientific Sleuthing Stands in the Way of Ivan Sarnoff's Latest Attempt at Wholesale Destruction.

THE EXILE OF TIME

RAY CUMMINGS

216

Young Lovers of Three Eras Are Swept down the Torrent of the Sinister Cripple Tugh's Frightful Vengeance. (Part Two of a Four-Part Novel.)

WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN

HAL K. WELLS

241

Outside His Laboratory Bruce Dixon Finds a World of Living Dead Men—and Above, in the Sky, Shines a Weird Green Moon.

THE DEATH-CLOUD

NAT SCHACHNER AND ARTHUR L. ZAGAT

256

The Epic Exploit of One Who Worked in the Dark and Alone, Behind the Enemy Lines, in the Great Last War.

THE READERS' CORNER

ALL OF US

276

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