Slave Laborers Flee Futuristic City — Amazing Stories June 1946 'Agharti'

Beneath a blood-red sky, muscular men strain forward under the crack of a whip, hauling themselves across a dark industrial landscape while a menacing overseer advances from the right. In the distance, an eerie silhouetted skyline of domed towers and alien spires rises against the lurid horizon — the hidden subterranean world of Agharti rendered as a dystopian slave empire. The scene pulses with desperation, sweat, and the promise of violent escape.