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OPUS#057 Star-Roamers, The

OPUS: #057
Title: The Star-Roamers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette

“An interplanetary story that will make your pulse beat faster, by the author of “Crashing Suns”–TOC
“An interplanetary story of many thrills – a battle of leaping flame on the worlds of Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor in space”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 21, no. 4, April 1933, (Apr 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Wilcox

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v21n04_1933-04

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OPUS#056 Kaldar, World of Antares [SM#1]

OPUS: #056
Title: Kaldar, World of Antares
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette
“A mighty story of a strange world far removed from Earth”–TOC
“A stupendous novelette of a world far removed from Earth, of the Chan of Kaldar, and the spider-people from beyond the metal mountains”

Publications:

  • The Magic Carpet Magazine, Vol. 3, no. 2, April 1933, (Apr 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: M. Brundage; Illust: Wilcox
  • Swordsmen in the Sky, (1964, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Ace, #F-311, $0.40, 192pp, pb, anth) Cover: Frank Frazetta
  • Kaldar: World of Antares, (Nov 1998, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-01-4, $55.00, iv+219pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom
  • The Magic Carpet Magazine, April 1933, (May 2007, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Girasol Collectables, $25.00, 132pp, Pulp, anth) Cover: M. Brundage
  • The Complete Magic Carpet Magazine, (Mar 2008, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Girasol Collectables, $120.00, 640pp, hc, anth) Cover: Neil Mecham
  • Swordsmen in the Sky, (date unknown, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Ace, #79276, $0.60, 192pp, pb, anth) Cover: Frank Frazetta

ebook: https://books.google.co.jp/books/about/The_Magic_Carpet_Vol_3_No_2_April_1933.html?id=TOYTP_S4DyQC&redir_esc=y

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OPUS#055 Snake-Man

OPUS: #055
Title: Snake-man
Author: Hugh Davidson (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1933
Type: short story

“A fearful mystery – a gigantic snake that crawled out of the swamp at night”–TOC
“The story of fearful mystery, of a gigantic snake that crawled out of the swamp at night, and an interpid snake-collector who went in after it.”

Publication:

  • Weird Tales [v21 # 1, January 1933] (25¢, 144pp+, pulp, cover by J. Allen St. John), pp. 41-50. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Terror, (Aug 2000, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-06-5, $32.00, xii+345pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom.

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v21n01_1933-01_LPM-URF-AT-SAS

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OPUS#054 Man Who Conquered Age, The

OPUS: #054
Title: The Man Who Conquered Age
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette
“A weird -scientific tale of a scientist who ran amok in New York’s streets” — TOC
“A gripping weird-scientific tale – a great scientist, drunk with power, runs amuck in the streets of New York.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 20, no. 6, December 1932, (Dec 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Wilcox

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v20n06_1932-12_AT-sas

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OPUS#053 Vampire Village

OPUS: #053
Title: Vampire Village
Author: Hugh Davidson (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1932
Type: short story
“A strange story of the ghoul-haunted village of Wieslant, and the eery adventure of two American travelers.”
“A blood-chilling story of the ghoul-haunted village of Wieslant and the eery adventure of two Americans”–TOC

Publication:

  • Weird Tales [v20 # 5, November 1932] (25¢, 144pp+, pulp, cover by J. Allen St. John), pp. 669-677. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • Weird Vampire Tales, (Aug 1992, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Gramercy Books, 0-517-06018-3, $9.95, 442pp, hc, anth) Cover: Jim Campbell.
  • The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Terror, (Aug 2000, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-06-5, $32.00, xii+345pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom.

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v20n05_1932-11_sas

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OPUS#052 Space-Rocket Murders

OPUS: #052
Title: Space-Rocket Murders
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novella
“Building a ship that will successfully travel across the void and safely land on another body in our vast universe is not the only consideration that should be given the problems of interplanetary travel – when this new dream of scientists is finally realized. It might be well to give some thought to our method of approach and our plan of action, if and when we succeed in reaching another planet – if there should perchance be life and intelligence where we land. Our well-known author gives us in this new amazing story some very vital things to think about.”

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 7, no. 7, October 1932, (Oct 1932, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Teck Publications, Inc., $0.25, 100pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey; illustrated by Leo Morey
  • Science Fiction Classics, Fall 1968, (1968, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume07Number07

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OPUS#051 Dogs of Doctor Dwann, The

OPUS: #051
Title: The Dogs of Doctor Dwann
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette

“A blood-chilling story of weird surgery and the things that ran in the night and howled through the Adirondack woods”–TOC
“An eery, blood-chilling story of weird surgery and the things that ran in the night and howled through the forest in the Adirondack hills”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 20, no. 4, October 1932, (Oct 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Nelson
  • Startling Mystery Stories. Vol. 3, no. 2=No. 14, Winter 1969
  • Satan’s Pets, (1972, ed. Vic Ghidalia, publ. Manor Books, #478, $0.75, 224pp, pb, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV20N04193210/

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OPUS#050 Terror Planet, The

OPUS: #050
Title: The Terror Planet
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette
“The brain-men of Uranus – the amazing thought-tubes of the Brants – a story of red battle on another planet.”
“The brain-men of Uranus – the thought-tubes of the Brants – a thrilling interplanetary tale by the author of “Crashing Suns”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 19, no. 5, May 1932, (May 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Nelson

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v19n05_1932-05_LPM-URF-AT-SAS

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OPUS#049 Earth-Brain, The

OPUS: #049
Title: The Earth-Brain
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette
“A weird-scientific story by a master of this type of fiction. about the vast creature on whose body we live”–TOC
“A thrilling story by a master of science-fiction, about the vast creature on whose body we live”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 19, no. 4, April 1932, (Apr 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Napoli
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (Jun 1975, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Gregg Press, 0-8398-2304-5, $12.50, ix+256pp, hc, coll)
  • Acolytes of Cthulhu, (Apr 2001, ed. Robert M. Price, publ. Fedogan & Bremer, 1-878252-47-X, $32.00, xv+390pp, hc, anth) Cover: Gahan Wilson

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV19N04193204Ibc

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OPUS#047 Conquest of Two Worlds, A

Title: A Conquest of Two Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Storylen: novelette
“Earthmen prove that mass murder can be prevented only through universal law backed up by force! A classic reprinted by popular demand” – TOC
“In this outstanding Hall of Fame novelet, Earthmen prove once more that the only way to prevent the grim terror of mass murder is through universal law backed up by force!”
“Fame classic reprinted from Wonder Stories, February, 1932. Tragic account of Earthmen’s ruthless exploitation, brutalization and conquest of the less highly evolved inhabitants of Mars and Jupiter, obviously based upon historical treatment of the Indians” – Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 59
「主人公マーク・ホールキットが自らの信念に従い、温厚で子どものような木星人を搾取する貪欲な宇宙開発を阻止しようとする」 – マイク・アシュリー著; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史 : パルプマガジンの饗宴』（東京創元社, 2004.7） p. 93
Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 3, no. 9, February 1932, (Feb 1932, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing, $0.25, 96pp, large, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Paul
  • Startling Stories, Vol. 16, no. 3, January 1948, (Jan 1948, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine),  pp. 70-83. Cover: Earle Bergey
  • Every Boy’s Book of Science Fiction, (1951, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Frederick Fell, $2.75, 254pp, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Apr 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, #1561, $2.98, xvii+334pp, hc, coll) Cover: Don Maitz
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Aug 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-25900-9, $1.95, xviii+381pp, pb, coll) Cover: H. R. Van Dongen
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/StartlingStories-1948jan-00070
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