{"product_id":"2940013685031","title":"ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE FEBRUARY 1930","description":"VOL. I, No. 2               CONTENTS                    FEBRUARY, 1930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  COVER DESIGN                          H. W. WESSOLOWSKI\u003cbr\u003e  _Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in \"Spawn of the Stars.\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  OLD CROMPTON'S SECRET                 HARL VINCENT                 153\u003cbr\u003e  _Tom's Extraordinary Machine Glowed--and the Years Were Banished\u003cbr\u003e  from Old Crompton's Body. But There Still Remained, Deep-seated in\u003cbr\u003e  His Century-old Mind, the Memory of His Crime._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SPAWN OF THE STARS                    CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN       166\u003cbr\u003e  _The Earth Lay Powerless Beneath Those Loathsome, Yellowish\u003cbr\u003e  Monsters That, Sheathed in Cometlike Globes, Sprang from the Skies\u003cbr\u003e  to Annihilate Man and Reduce His Cities to Ashes._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE CORPSE ON THE GRATING             HUGH B. CAVE                 187\u003cbr\u003e  _In the Gloomy Depths of the Old Warehouse Dale Saw a Thing That\u003cbr\u003e  Drew a Scream of Horror to His Dry Lips. It Was a Corpse--the Mold\u003cbr\u003e  of Decay on Its Long-dead Features--and Yet It Was Alive!_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CREATURES OF THE LIGHT                SOPHIE WENZEL ELLIS          196\u003cbr\u003e  _He Had Striven to Perfect the Faultless Man of the Future, and\u003cbr\u003e  Had Succeeded--Too Well. For in the Pitilessly Cold Eyes of Adam,\u003cbr\u003e  His Super-human Creation, Dr. Mundson Saw Only Contempt--and\u003cbr\u003e  Annihilation--for the Human Race._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  INTO SPACE                            STERNER ST. PAUL             221\u003cbr\u003e  _What Was the Extraordinary Connection Between Dr. Livermore's\u003cbr\u003e  Sudden Disappearance and the Coming of a New Satellite to the\u003cbr\u003e  Earth?_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE BEETLE HORDE                      VICTOR ROUSSEAU              229\u003cbr\u003e  _Bullets, Shrapnel, Shell--Nothing Can Stop the Trillions of\u003cbr\u003e  Famished, Man-sized Beetles Which, Led by a Madman, Sweep Down\u003cbr\u003e  Over the Human Race._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MAD MUSIC                             ANTHONY PELCHER              248\u003cbr\u003e  _The Sixty Stories of the Perfectly Constructed Colossus Building\u003cbr\u003e  Had Mysteriously Crashed! What Was the Connection Between This\u003cbr\u003e  Catastrophe and the Weird Strains of the Mad Musician's Violin?_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE THIEF OF TIME                     CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK           259\u003cbr\u003e  _The Teller Turned to the Stacked Pile of Bills. They Were Gone!\u003cbr\u003e  And No One Had Been Near!_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Single Copies, 20 Cents (In Canada, 25 Cents)\u003cbr\u003e  Yearly Subscription, $2.00\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIssued monthly by Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 80 Lafayette St., New\u003cbr\u003eYork, N.Y. W. M. Clayton, President; Nathan Goldmann, Secretary.\u003cbr\u003eApplication for entry as second-class mail pending at the Post Office at\u003cbr\u003eNew York, under Act of March 3, 1879. Application for registration of\u003cbr\u003etitle as Trade Mark pending in the U.S. Patent Office. Member Newsstand\u003cbr\u003eGroup--Men's List. For advertising rates address E. R. Crowe \u0026amp; Co.,\u003cbr\u003eInc., 25 Vanderbilt Ave., New York; or 225 North Michigan Ave.,\u003cbr\u003eChicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld Crompton's Secret\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_By Harl Vincent_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Tom's extraordinary machine glowed--and the years were banished\u003cbr\u003e    from Old Crompton's body. But there still remained, deep-seated\u003cbr\u003e    in his century-old mind, the memory of his crime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: _Tom tripped on a wire and fell, with his ferocious\u003cbr\u003eadversary on top._]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo miles west of the village of Laketon there lived an aged recluse who\u003cbr\u003ewas known only as Old Crompton. As far back as the villagers could\u003cbr\u003eremember he had visited the town regularly twice a month, each time\u003cbr\u003etottering his lonely way homeward with a load of provisions. He appeared\u003cbr\u003eto be well supplied with funds, but purchased sparingly as became a\u003cbr\u003emiserly hermit. And so vicious was his tongue that few cared to converse\u003cbr\u003ewith him, even the young hoodlums of the town hesitating to harass him\u003cbr\u003ewith the banter usually accorded the other bizarre characters of the\u003cbr\u003estreets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe oldest inhabitants knew nothing of his past history, and they had\u003cbr\u003elong since lost their curiosity in the matter. He was a fixture, as was\u003cbr\u003ethe old town hall with its surrounding park. His lonely cabin was\u003cbr\u003eshunned by all who chanced to pass along the old dirt road that led\u003cbr\u003ethrough the woods to nowhere and was rarely used.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis only extravagance was in the matter of books, and the village book\u003cbr\u003estore profited considerably by his purchases. But, at the instigation of\u003cbr\u003eCass Harmon, the bookseller, it was whispered about that Old Crompton\u003cbr\u003ewas a believer in the black art--that he had made a pact with the devil\u003cbr\u003ehimself and was leagued with him and his imps.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070193352944,"sku":"2940013685031","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013685031_p0.jpg?v=1763597109","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013685031","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}