R 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

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The Man Who Was Dead

_By Thomas H. Knight_

[Illustration: "_I was dead._"]

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!

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,"