ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE VOL. I No. 1 JANUARY, 1930 W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher HARRY BATES, Editor DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI _Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "The Beetle Horde."_ _On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month_ 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, WESTERN NOVEL MAGAZINE, BIG STORY MAGAZINE, MISS 1930, _and_ FOREST AND STREAM _More Than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for Clayton Magazines._ Issued monthly by Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 80 Lafayette St., New York, N. Y. W. M. Clayton, President; Nathan Goldmann, Secretary. Application for entry as second-class mail pending at the Post Office at New York, under Act of March 3, 1879. Application for registration of title as Trade Mark pending in the U.S. Patent Office. Member Newsstand Group--Men's List. For advertising rates address E. R. Crowe & Co., Inc., 25 Vanderbilt Ave., New York; or 225 North Michigan Ave., Chicago. CONTENTS EDITORIAL THE EDITOR 7 _An Introduction to a New and Unique Magazine._ THE BEETLE HORDE VICTOR ROUSSEAU 8 _Only Two Young Explorers Stand in the Way of the Mad Bram's Horrible Revenge--the Releasing of His Trillions of Man-sized Beetles upon an Utterly Defenseless World._ (Part One of a Two-part Novel.) THE CAVE OF HORROR CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 32 _Screaming, the Guardsman Was Jerked Through the Air. An Unearthly Screech Rang Through the Cavern. The Unseen Horror of Mammoth Cave Had Struck Again!_ PHANTOMS OF REALITY RAY CUMMINGS 46 _Red Sensua's Knife Came up Dripping--and the Two Adventurers Knew that Chaos and Bloody Revolution Had Been Unleashed in that Shadowy Kingdom of the Fourth Dimension._ (A Complete Novel.) THE STOLEN MIND M. L. STALEY 75 _What Would You Do, If, Like Quest, You Were Tricked, and Your Very Mind and Will Stolen from Your Body?_