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  [Transcriber's Note: Initial ads moved below main text. The Beetle Horde concludes a story begun in the Jan, 1930 edition. Minor spelling and typographical errors corrected. Variable Spelling and Hyphenations standardized. Full list of changes at end of text. Passages in italics indicated by underscore _italics_. Passages in bold indicated by equals =bold=.]

  ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE

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  VOL. I, No. 2 CONTENTS FEBRUARY, 1930

  COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI _Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "Spawn of the Stars."_

  OLD CROMPTON'S SECRET HARL VINCENT 153 _Tom's Extraordinary Machine Glowed--and the Years Were Banished from Old Crompton's Body. But There Still Remained, Deep-seated in His Century-old Mind, the Memory of His Crime._

  SPAWN OF THE STARS CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN 166 _The Earth Lay Powerless Beneath Those Loathsome, Yellowish Monsters That, Sheathed in Cometlike Globes, Sprang from the Skies to Annihilate Man and Reduce His Cities to Ashes._

  THE CORPSE ON THE GRATING HUGH B. CAVE 187 _In the Gloomy Depths of the Old Warehouse Dale Saw a Thing That Drew a Scream of Horror to His Dry Lips. It Was a Corpse--the Mold of Decay on Its Long-dead Features--and Yet It Was Alive!_

  CREATURES OF THE LIGHT SOPHIE WENZEL ELLIS 196 _He Had Striven to Perfect the Faultless Man of the Future, and Had Succeeded--Too Well. For in the Pitilessly Cold Eyes of Adam, His Super-human Creation, Dr. Mundson Saw Only Contempt--and Annihilation--for the Human Race._

  INTO SPACE STERNER ST. PAUL 221 _What Was the Extraordinary Connection Between Dr. Livermore's Sudden Disappearance and the Coming of a New Satellite to the Earth?_

  THE BEETLE HORDE VICTOR ROUSSEAU 229 _Bullets, Shrapnel, Shell--Nothing Can Stop the Trillions of Famished, Man-sized Beetles Which, Led by a Madman, Sweep Down Over the Human Race._

  MAD MUSIC ANTHONY PELCHER 248 _The Sixty Stories of the Perfectly Constructed Colossus Building Had Mysteriously Crashed! What Was the Connection Between This Catastrophe and the Weird Strains of the Mad Musician's Violin?_

  THE THIEF OF TIME CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 259 _The Teller Turned to the Stacked Pile of Bills. They Were Gone! And No One Had Been Near!_

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