Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931.

Stories include:

• The Dark Side of Antri by Sewell Peaslee Wright
• The Sunken Empire by H. Thompson Rich
• The Gate to Xoran by Hal K. Wells
• The Eye of Allah by Charles Willard Diffin
• The Fifth-Dimension Catapult by Murray Leinster
• The Pirate Planet (Part 3 of 4) by Charles Willard Diffin

Devil Crystals of Arret, by Hal K. Wells. Published 1931.

An awesomely ’30s science fiction short story featuring rat-men, octopus-bats, eldritch music and Tinkling Death!

The White Invaders, by Ray Cummings. Published 1931.

This novelette is a classic “Aliens Coming for Our Women” story, but when it was published in the early ’30s that theme probably wasn’t quite the cliché that it is today. One interesting thing about this book is the juxtaposition of the near-telegraphic narrative with the very detailed footnotes.

The White Invaders is one of several science fiction stories that have been posted to PG in recent months. It’s nice to work on later fiction for a change, though the production values of the pulps are often not very high. This one was quite good — except the caption on the second illustration probably should have been on the first one.

Go read it, and ponder the wisdom behind kidnapping of a large number of women from New York City.