Astounding Stories March 1931 – Spaceship vs. Crimson Alien Tendrils
A sleek silver torpedo-shaped spacecraft streaks desperately through an alien void, caught in a hellish storm of writhing crimson tentacles or cosmic organisms that fill the entire sky like a living nebula. Green energy beams lance outward, perhaps the ship's only defense against the engulfing biological horror. This is the Special Patrol facing the 'Vampires of Space' — and the odds look catastrophically grim.
Oh man, the ENTIRE background is a seething mass of alien red tentacles eating space itself — this is pure nightmare fuel dressed up as adventure fiction! Clayton-era Astounding at its most gloriously deranged.
“ASTOUNDING STORIES 20¢ MARCH CLAYTON VAMPIRES OF SPACE Another Thrilling Adventure of the Special Patrol BY SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT”
