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Title: Astounding Stories, May, 1931

Author: Various

Release Date: November 23, 2009 [EBook #30532]

Language: English

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ASTOUNDING

STORIES

20c

_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, ALL STAR DETECTIVE STORIES, RANGELAND LOVE STORY MAGAZINE,
WESTERN ADVENTURES, and WESTERN LOVE STORIES.

_More than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand
for Clayton Magazines._

* * * * *

VOL. VI, No. 2 CONTENTS MAY, 1931

COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSO

_Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Dark Moon._"

DARK MOON CHARLES W. DIFFIN 148

_Mysterious, Dark, Out of the Unknown Deep Comes a New Satellite to
Lure Three Courageous Earthlings on to Strange Adventure._
(_A Complete Novelette._)

WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 198

_Only Dr. Bird's Super-Scientific Sleuthing Stands in the Way of
Ivan Sarnoff's Latest Attempt at Wholesale Destruction