Produced by Greg Weeks, Meredith Bach, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net 20¢ ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE _On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month_ W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher HARRY BATES, Editor DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting 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, WIDE WORLD ADVENTURES, ALL STAR DETECTIVE STORIES, FLYERS, RANGELAND LOVE STORY MAGAZINE, SKY-HIGH LIBRARY MAGAZINE, WESTERN ADVENTURES, MISS 1930, _and_ FOREST AND STREAM _More Than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for Clayton Magazines._ VOL. II, No. 1 CONTENTS APRIL, 1930 COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI _Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "Monsters of Moyen."_ THE MAN WHO WAS DEAD THOMAS H. KNIGHT 9 _As Jerry's Eyes Fell on the Creature's Head, He Shuddered--for the Face Was Nothing but Bone, with Dull-brown Skin Stretched Taut over It. A Skeleton That Was Alive!_ MONSTERS OF MOYEN ARTHUR J. BURKS 18 _"The Western World Shall be Next!" Was the Dread Ultimatum of the Half-monster, Half-god Moyen._ VAMPIRES OF VENUS ANTHONY PELCHER 47 _Leslie Larner, an Entomologist Borrowed from the Earth, Pits Himself Against the Night-flying Vampires That Are Ravaging the Inhabitants of Venus._ BRIGANDS OF THE MOON RAY CUMMINGS 60 _Out of Awful Space Tumbled the Space-ship Planetara Towards the Moon, Her Officers Dead, With Bandits at Her Helm--and the Controls Out of Order!_ THE SOUL SNATCHER TOM CURRY 101 _From Twenty Miles Away Stabbed the "Atom-filtering" Rays to Allen Baker in His Cell in the Death House._ THE RAY OF MADNESS CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 112 _Dr. Bird Uncovers a Dastardly Plot, Amazing in its Mechanical Ingenuity, Behind the Apparently Trivial Eye Trouble of the President._ THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 127 _A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._ Single Copies, 20 Cents (In Canada, 25 Cents) Yearly Subscription, $2.00