Astounding Stories, volume 16, number 6

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Title

Astounding Stories, volume 16, number 6

Editor

Table Of Contents

Feature: At the mountains of madness (part 1) by H.P. Lovecraft/ Novelettes: Death cloud by David R. Daniels; Mathematica by John Russell Fearn; Cones by Frank Belknap Long Jr./ Short Stories: The seeing blindness by J. Earle Wycoff; Buried Moon by Raymond Z. Gallun; The shapes by R. De Witt Miller; Don Kelz of the I.S.P. by Clifton B. Kruse; The Psycho Power conquest by R.R. Winterbotham/ Serial novel: Blue Magic (conclusion) by Charles William Diffin/ Readers' Departments: Brass Tacks (The Open House of Controversy); Editor's page

Cover Description

Through stalactites/stalagmites we see two men in brown with packs slung over one shoulder, holding flashlights, running from a huge floating cluster of eyeballs. The cluster is green and has tentacles reaching for the men; the eyes are round and red.

Notable Details

This issue contains the first of three serialized installments of H.P. Lovecraft’s novella “At the Mountains of Madness,” one of his longest works.

List of contributing authors

Cover Artist

List of illustrators

Elliott Dold Jr., Marchioni, Wesso, Brown, Thompson, Schneeman

Publisher

Street & Smith Publications

Format

24cm long, 17cm wide, 1cm tall

Date

February 1936

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Astounding Stories, volume 16, number 6