"Spawn of the Comet"
© 1931
by
Harold Thompson Rich

Tokyo, June 10 (AP).-A number of the meteors that pelted Japan last night, as the earth passed through the tail of the Mystery Comet have been found and are puzzling astronomers everywhere.

About the size of baseballs, orange in color, they appear to be of some unknown metal. So far, due to ( Read more... )

"The Children of the Night"

© 1931

by

Robert E. Howard

There were, I remember, six of us in Conrad's bizarrely fashioned study, with its queer relics from all over the world and its long rows of books which ranged from the Mandrake Press edition of Boccaccio to a Missale Romanum, bound in clasped oak boards and printed in Venice, 1740. Clemants ( Read more... )

In the frozen wastes at the bottom of the world two explorers find a strange pool of white fire-and have a strange adventure.

"The Lake of Light"

© 1931

by

Jack Williamson
The roar of the motor rang loud in the frosty air above a desert of ice. The sky above us was a deep purple-blue; the red sun hung like a crimson eye low in the north. Three ( Read more... )

Hawk Carse
© 1931
By Harry Bates and Desmond W. Hall
(writing as Anthony Gilmore)

CHAPTER I
The Swoop of the Hawk
Hawk Carse came to the frontiers of space when Saturn was the frontier planet, which was years before the swift Patrol ships brought Earth's law and order to those vast regions. A casual glance at his slender figure made it seem impossible ( Read more... )

"Vampires of Space"

(c) 1932
By
Sewell Peaslee Wright

Commander John Hanson recounts his harrowing adventure with the Electites of space.Sometimes, I know, I must seem a crotchety old man. "Old John Hanson," they call me, and roll their eyes as though to say, "Of course, you have to forgive him on account of his age ( Read more... )

"Vampires of Space"

(c) 1932

By
Sewell Peaslee Wright

Commander John Hanson recounts his harrowing adventure with the Electites of space.Sometimes, I know, I must seem a crotchety old man. "Old John Hanson," they call me, and roll their eyes as though to say, "Of course, you have to forgive him on account of his age ( Read more... )

"The Venus of Azombeii"
(c) 1931

byClark Ashton Smith
The statuette was not more than twelve inches in height, and represented a female figure that somehow reminded me of the Medicean Venus, despite many differences of feature and proportion. It was wrought of a black wood, almost as heavy as marble; and the unknown artist had certainly made the most ( Read more... )

Dark Moon

A COMPLETE NOVELETTE

(c) 1931
By Charles W. Diffin

CHAPTER I
There Comes a New World

The one hundred and fifty-ninth floor of the great Transportation Building allowed one standing at a window to look down upon the roofs of the countless buildings that were New York ( Read more... )

THE JAMESON SATELLITE
By NEIL R. JONES

The mammoths of the ancient world have been wonderfully preserved in the ice of Siberia. The cold, only a few miles out in space, will be far more intense than in the polar regions and its power of preserving the dead body would most probably be correspondingly increased. When the hero-scientist of this story ( Read more... )

"Retro Review of
The Jameson Satellite (1931)
by Neil R. Jones"
(c) 2008, 2012
by
Jordan S. Bassior

Introduction

This short story was published in 1931 and was the first of a series later collected by Ace Books in multiple short volumes.  It is notably available in Isaac Asimov's 1974 anthology Before the Golden Age, and is also on Project Gutenberg here ( Read more... )