Amazing Stories, Vol. 1 No. 9

Museum Catalog Note: Amazing Stories, December 1926 This December 1926 issue of Amazing Stories features science fiction serials and short stories. The lead serial is H. G. Wells's *The First Men in the Moon* (Part I), in which explorers encounter a superhuman insect race inhabiting the moon's interior. Garrett P. Serviss's serial *The Second Deluge* concludes in this issue, depicting a catastrophic flood that covers the Himalayas with mysterious survivors. Additional stories include Edwin Balmer and William B. MacHarg's *The Man Higher Up*, A. Hyatt Verrill's *Through the Crater's Rim*, Augusto Bissiri's *The Lord of the Winds*, Samuel M. Sargent Jr.'s *The Telepathic Pick-Up*, Charles S. Wolfe's *The Educated Harpoon*, and the reprint *The Diamond Lens* by Fitz-James O'Brien. Ray's *The Time Eliminator* appears alongside coming attractions including Murray Leinster's *The Red Dust* and Verrill's *The Man Who Could Vanish*. The issue features a cover-illustration contest inviting reader-written stories.