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COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSO
Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in “The Tentacles from Below.”
WEREWOLVES OF WAR D. W. HALL 153
The Story of the “Torpedo Plan” and of Capt. Lance’s Heroic Part in America’s Last Mighty Battle with the United Slavs.
THE TENTACLES FROM BELOW ANTHONY GILMORE 172
Down to Tremendous Ocean Depths Goes Commander Keith Wells in His Blind Duel with the Marauding “Machine-Fish.” (A Complete Novelette.)
THE BLACK LAMP CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 212
Dr. Bird and His Friend Carnes Unravel Another Criminal Web of Scientific Mystery.
PHALANXES OF ATLANS F. V. W. MASON 228
Only in Dim Legends Did Mankind Remember Atlantis and the Lost Tribes—Until Vic- tor Nelson’s Extraordinary Adventure in the Unknown Arctic. (Beginning a Two- Part Novel.)
THE PIRATE PLANET CHARLES W. DIFFIN 261
From Earth and Sub-Venus Converge a Titanic Offensive of Justice on the Unspeakable Man-Things of Torg. (Conclusion.)
THE READERS’ CORNER ALL OF US 277
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