Operation: Square Peg / Enchantress of Venus

1 “Operation Square Peg” by Frank Belknap Long and Irving W. Lande - Earth battles an alien invasion. New enemy weapon defeats Earth space pilots who succumb to irrational fear during combat.
2 “Enchantress of Venus” by Leigh Brackett - Love lost and found. She cast him down into the hideous depths, beneath seas of flaming gas, where dead blossoms sway, whisper over strangely jumbled ruins… But there he finds the secret of her power and surges up from the slime, tortured swamps — to storm her forbidden temple.