Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930

A themed collection of early pulp science-fiction and fantasy short stories presenting a variety of speculative set pieces and adventurous premises. Tales shift between eerie encounters with reanimated skeletons and demi-godlike monsters, predatory, blood‑drinking creatures on a hostile planet, and desperate shipboard or lunar assaults that pit raiders against damaged spacecraft. Other pieces examine mind‑altering rays, soul theft, and questions of return after death, all told in brisk, action-forward prose. The sequence alternates ominous atmospherics and mechanical ingenuity, delivering fast plots, vivid spectacle, and recurring concerns with survival, intrusion, and scientific menace.