ASTOUNDING
STORIES
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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
A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.
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Dark Moon
A COMPLETE NOVELETTE
By Charles W. Diffin