Amazing Stories, August 1948

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August 1948 Issue Contents This issue of Amazing Stories features science fiction narratives alongside regular columns. The cover story "Starship From Sirius" by Rog Phillips is advertised as a sequel to his post-atomic war novel "So Shall Ye Reap." "The Venusian" by Craig Browning presents an unusual scenario: a bored Venusian child, descending in a flying saucer, lands on Earth believing humans are mere playthings for entertainment. "Holey Land" by S.M. Tenneshaw depicts a land that repeatedly produces mysterious disappearing holes; wealthy retired financier Horace Veblen discovers tiny bearded elves inhabiting the holes, who warn him that beneath his property lies an imprisoned demon named Kargool that threatens to escape and consume humans. A fourth story, "Read on Arrival," is also mentioned but not detailed. The issue includes miscellaneous scientific and historical articles including "The Observatory," "The Mental Feats of Mollie Fancher," and "Egyptian Society."