RE H. THOMPSON RICH 24
_Concerning the Strange Adventures of Professor Stevens with
the Antillians on the Floor of the Mysterious Sargasso Sea._

THE GATE TO XORAN HAL K. WELLS 46
_A Strange Man of Metal Comes to Earth on a Dreadful Mission._

THE EYE OF ALLAH C. D. WILLARD 58
_On the Fatal Seventh of September a Certain Secret Service
Man Sat in the President's Chair and--Looked Back into the Eye
of Allah._

THE FIFTH-DIMENSION CATAPULT MURRAY LEINSTER 72
_The Story of Tommy Reames' Extraordinary Rescue of Professor
Denham and his Daughter--Marooned in the Fifth Dimension._
(A Complete Novelette.)

THE PIRATE PLANET CHARLES W. DIFFIN 109
_Two Fighting Yankees--War-Torn Earth's Sole Representatives
on Venus--Set Out to Spike the Greatest Gun of All Time._
(Part Three of a Four-Part Novel.)

THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 132
_A Meeting Place for Readers of_ ASTOUNDING STORIES.

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[Illustration: "_Behold one of those who live in the darkness._"]

The Dark Side of Antri

_By Sewell Peaslee Wright_

Commander John Hanson relates an interplanetary adventure
illustrating the splendid Service spirit of the men of the
Special Patrol.

An officer of the Special Patrol Service dropped in to see me the
other day. He was a young fellow, very sure of himself, and very
kindly towards an old man.

He was doing a monograph, he said, for his own amusement, upon the
early forms of our present offensive and defensive weapons. Could I
tell him about the first Deuber spheres and the earlier disintegrator
rays and the crude atomic