Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930

"Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930" by Anthony Pelcher is a compilation of early 20th-century science fiction stories filled with monsters and grand adventures on Earth and in space. The opening story, "The Man Who Was Dead," introduces Jerry, a young man who meets a strange, gaunt man in a store on a winter night. This stranger, who looks like a skeleton, interrupts a conversation about life after death by claiming he has returned from the grave after being hanged. He then shares a dark story of murder, shocking Jerry and his friends and making them wonder what the resurrected man will do next, which creates an atmosphere of fear and mystery for the rest of the collection, playing with ideas about life, death, suspense, and amazement.