Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ASTOUNDING STORIES 20¢ _On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month_ W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher HARRY BATES, Editor The Clayton Standard on a Magazine Guarantees _That_ the stories therein are clean, interesting, vivid, by leading writers of the day and purchased under conditions approved by the Authors' League of America; _That_ such magazines are manufactured in Union shops by American workmen; _That_ each newsdealer and agent is insured a fair profit; _That_ an intelligent censorship guards their advertising pages. _The other Clayton magazines are:_ ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE, RANCH ROMANCES, COWBOY STORIES, CLUES, FIVE-NOVELS MONTHLY, ALL STAR DETECTIVE STORIES, RANGELAND LOVE STORY MAGAZINE, WESTERN ADVENTURES, WESTERN LOVE STORIES and JUNGLE STORIES. _More than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for Clayton Magazines._ * * * * * VOL. VII, No. 2 CONTENTS AUGUST, 1931 THE DANGER FROM THE DEEP RALPH MILNE FARLEY 149 _Marooned on the Sea-Floor, His Hoisting Cable Cut, Young Abbot Is Left at the Mercy of the Man-Sharks._ BROOD OF THE DARK MOON CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN 168 _Once More Chet, Walt and Diane Are United in a Wild Ride to the Dark Moon. But This Time They Go as Prisoners of Their Deadly Enemy Schwartzmann._ (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.) IF THE SUN DIED R. F. STARZL 198 _Tens of Millenniums After the Death of the Sun There Comes a Young Man Who Dares to Open the Frozen Gate of Subterranea._ THE MIDGET FROM THE ISLAND H. G. WINTER 214 _Garth Howard, Prey to Half the Animals of the Forest, Fights Valiantly to Regain His Lost Five Feet of Size._ (A Complete Novelette.) THE MOON WEED HARL VINCENT 236 _Unwittingly the Traitor of the Earth, Van Pits Himself Against the Inexorably Tightening Web of Plant-Beasts He Has Released from the Moon._ THE PORT OF MISSING PLANES CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 255 _In the Underground Caverns of the Selom, Dr. Bird Once Again Locks Wills with the Subversive Genius, Saranoff._ THE READERS CORNER ALL OF US 273 _A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories_ * * * * * Single Copies, 20 Cents (In Canada, 25 Cents) Yearly Subscription, $2.00