# STORY CONTENTS
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).
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About this artifact
- Date
- 1930
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
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