ASTOUNDING STORIES AUGUST 1931

ASTOUNDING STORIES AUGUST 1931

by Harry Bates
ASTOUNDING STORIES AUGUST 1931

ASTOUNDING STORIES AUGUST 1931

by Harry Bates

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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_

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The Danger from the Deep

_By Ralph Milne Farley_

[Illustration: _He caught a glimpse of the grinning fish-face._]


[Sidenote: Marooned on the sea-floor, his hoisting cable cut, young
Abbot is left at the mercy of the man-sharks.]

Within a thick-walled sphere of steel eight feet in diameter, with
crystal-clear fused-quartz windows, there crouched an alert young
scientist, George Abbot. The sphere rested on the primeval muck and
slime at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, one mile beneath the
surface.

The beam from his 200-watt searchlight, which shot out through one of
his three windows into the dark blue depths beyond, seemed faint
indeed, yet it served to illuminate anything which crossed it, or on
which it fell.

For a considerable length of time since his descent to the ocean
floor, young Abbot had clung to one of the thick windows of his
bathysphere, absorbed by the marine life outside. Slender small fish
with stereoscopic eyes, darted in and out of the beam of light.
Swimming snails floated by, carrying their own phosphorescent
lanterns. Paper-thin transparent crustaceans swam into view, followed
by a few white shrimps, pale as ghosts. Then a mist of tiny fish swept
across his field of vision. Abbot cupped his face in his hands, and
stared out.

The incongruous thought flashed across his mind that thus he had often
sat by the window of his club in New York, and gazed out at the
passing motor traffic.

His searchlight cut a sharp swath through the blue muck. More than
once he thought he saw large moving fish-like forms far away.

"Speed up the generator," he called into his phone.

Immediately the shaft of light brightened. He set about trying to
focus upon one of those dim elusive shapes which had so intrigued him.

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Publication date: 01/22/2012
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