Astounding Stories of Super Science

About this issue

This first issue of Weird Tales (January 1930) features four science fiction and adventure stories: "The Beetle Horde" by Victor Rousseau opens the issue. A two-part novel depicting two explorers confronting a madman's plot to unleash trillions of man-sized beetles upon the world as his instrument of revenge. "The Cave of Horror" by Captain S. P. Meek presents a tale of terror in Mammoth Cave, where an unseen horror repeatedly claims victims, including guardsmen dragged through the air by unknown forces. "Phantoms of Reality" by Ray Cummings is a complete novelette exploring adventure in the fourth dimension. Political intrigue unfolds when a character named Red Sensua unleashes chaos and bloody revolution in a shadowy fourth-dimensional kingdom. "The Stolen Mind" by M. I. Staley examines a protagonist tricked into having his mind and will stolen from his body. Additional stories include "Compensation" by C. V. Tench (involving a professor's disappearance and a mysterious crystal cage), "Tanks" by Murray Leinster (military science fiction set during a 1932 war with fog-gas and tanks), and "Invisible Death" by Anthony Pelcher (featuring an uncanny invisible killer threatening a millionaire manufacturer).