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ASTOUNDING
STORIES
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VOL. V, No. 2 CONTENTS February, 1931
| 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 Victor 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 |
| A Meeting Place for Readers ofAstounding Stories. | ||
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"Hay crosses the gulf, taking with him the cord which controls the electro-magnet."Werewolves of War
By D. W. Hall
PART I
rapped again!
But this time, Lance swore, they'd not get away without paying dearly for it!
Under the mesh of his gas-mask the lean lines of his jaw went taut. Tense, steely fingers flipped to the knobbed control instruments; the gleaming single-seater scout plane catapulted in a screaming somersault. Lance's ever-wary sixth sense told him the tongues of disintegrating flame had licked the plane's protected belly, and for the fact that it was protected he thanked again his stupendous luck. He pulled savagely at the squat control stick; the four Rahl-Diesels unleashed a torrent of power; and the slim scout rose like a comet, and hurtled, the altitude dial's nervous finger proclaimed, to ten thousand feet. Lance eased off the power, relaxed slightly, and glanced below.
They'd started off a squadron of fifteen planes. Thirteen had crumpled beneath that treacherous, stabbing curtain of disintegrating flame. Only two of them were left—he and Praed.
Praed, of course!
The fellow's plane was pirouetting nearby. Lance was the squadron leader. He jammed his thin-lipped mouth close to the "mike" and