The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror /
with a new introduction by Gerry De La Ree
Boston : Gregg Press, 1975.6. –
ix, 256 p. ; 21 cm. – (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series)
ISBN: 0-8398-2304-5 LCCN: 75-5745

Contents:
The Horror on the Asteroid p. 9
The Accursed Galaxy p. 59
The Man Who Saw Everything (The Man With the X-Ray Eyes) p. 99
The Earth-Brain p. 127
The Monster-God of Mamurth p. 185
The Man Who Evolved p. 219

Book Reviews:

• Locus. 182(4). December 17, 1975. (C. Brown)

• Science Fiction Review Monthly. 11:17. January 1976. (B. Rapoport)

• Science Fiction Studies. 2(3):278. November 1975. (D. Mullen)
• Whispers. (8):58. December 1975. (Stuart David Schiff)

The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror
London : Philip Allan, 1936
256 p. ; 20 cm.
“Starting with the story that provides the title of the book, Edmond Hamilton presents the reader with six tales of horror, each of which has its undercurrent of science. A space-ship is wending its way from Earth to Jupiter when it runs into an uncharted meteor swarm and is smashed. The survivors get away in the life-boats and make for the nearest asteroid where they hope to remain till rescue comes. But does it come in time? A young man gets a doctor to operate on his eyes so that he can see through walls, and everything except organic matter vanishes from his sight. Is he satisfied when by lip-reading he can tell what people are saying that they do not want strangers to hear? There is included the story of and accursed Galaxy; the reader is surprised to find that he is really living on the body of a vast pulsating creature; a monster God is found inhabiting the African Desert, and finally there is an inspired tale that tells how “the mad of man’s evolution is a circular one, returning to its beginning.”

Review:

• Gillings, Walter H., in: Scientifiction : The British Fantasy Review. Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1937), p. 12.
• Fraser, Sir Ian, “What London is Doing and Thinking,” in: The Age, Jan. 16, 1937, p. 6.