branch of science. His story, amazing in the
best sense of that word as it may be, is fully supported by proofs
brought forward by him and accepted by the organization of which I
have the honor to be president. What matter has been elided from
this popular presentation--because of the excessively menacing
potentialities it contains, which unrestricted dissemination might
develop--will be dealt with in purely scientific pamphlets of
carefully guarded circulation.

THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE
Per J. B. K., President

CONTENTS

I The Thing on the Moon Path
II "Dead! All Dead!"
III The Moon Rock
IV The First Vanishings
V Into the Moon Pool
VI "The Shining Devil Took Them!"
VII Larry O'Keefe
VIII Olaf's Story
IX A Lost Page of Earth
X The Moon Pool
XI The Flame-Tipped Shadows
XII The End of the Journey
XIII Yolara, Priestess of the Shining One
XIV The Justice of Lora
XV The Angry, Whispering Globe
XVI Yolara of Muria vs. the O'Keefe
XVII The Leprechaun
XVIII The Amphitheatre of Jet
XIX The Madness of Olaf
XX The Tempting of Larry
XXI Larry's Defiance
XXII The Casting of the Shadow
XXIII Dragon Worm and Moss Death
XXIV The Crimson Sea
XXV The Three Silent Ones
XXVI The Wooing of Lakla
XXVII The Coming of Yolara
XXVIII In the Lair of the Dweller
XXIX The Shaping of the Shining One
XXX The Building of the Moon Pool
XXXI Larry and the Frog-Men
XXXII "Your Love; Your Lives; Your Souls!"
XXXIII The Meeting of Titans
XXXIV The Coming of the Shining One
XXXV "Larry--Farewell!"

CHAPTER I

The Thing on the Moon Path

For two months I had been on the d'Entrecasteaux Islands gathering
data for the concluding chapters of my book upon the flora of the
volcanic islands of the South Pacific. The day before I had reached
Port Moresby and had seen my specimens safely stored on board the
Southern Queen. As I sat on the upper deck I thought, with homesick
mind, of the long leagues between me and Melbourne, and the longer
ones between Melbourne and New York.

It was one of Papua's yellow mornings when she shows herself in her
sombrest, most baleful mood. The sky was smouldering ochre. Over the
island brooded a spirit sullen, alien, implacable, filled with the
threat of latent, malefic forces wai