Category Archives: novelette (21-50 pages)

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OPUS#171 Mystery Moon

OPUS: #171
Title: Mystery Moon
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novelette
“If there justice in the saying “life father, like son# when you are the son of a famous space pirates?”-TOC
“The lure of space travel was in Eric Rand’s veins. Somewhere out there lay the answer to his birth. Why was it forbidden to hin?”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 15, no. 1, January 1941, (Jan 1941, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Fuqua

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v15n01_1941-01.Ziff-Daviscape1736

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OPUS#170 Horse That Talked, The

OPUS: #170
Title: The Horse That Talked
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novelette
“China Boy wasn’t that kind of a horse you meet every day. He could talk, and he could drink. And as it turned out, he could do both a good deal faster than he could run”
“China Boy was a racehorse – by his own admission. But maybe China Boy was a bit inclined to boast -” TOC
Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 3, no. 1, January 1941, (Jan 1941, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Harold W. McCauley; Illust : Jay Jackson

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 15. “A financier wants to foreclose on the property of a dead scientist’s daughter because it is rich in mineral deposits. The scientist was experimenting with speech in animals, however. and left a race horse which talks and which likes alcohol. Since it is hungover, the horse must use its power of speech to win the mortgage money in a big race.”

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=32126

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OPUS#168 Gift from the Stars

OPUS: #168
Title: Gift from the Stars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: novelette
“Human zero” Padgett never had the nerve to fight for his rights – till the mighty science of Vega showed him how to change a decimal point of a man to an important figure!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 18, no. 3, (December 1940, (Dec 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: MUR

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v18n03_1940-12/page/n89/mode/2up?view=theater

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OPUS#163 Sea Born

OPUS: #163
Title: Sea Born
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
“Strange half-child of land and water”–TOC
“Beneath the sea life death and horror for human beigns – but Eric Leigh found love and a new life”

Type: novelette
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 35, no. 5, September 1940, (Sep 1940, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Ray Quigley; Illust: Bok
  • Weird Tales (UK). No. 1, February 1942

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v35n05_1940-09

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OPUS#157 Liline, the Moon Girl

OPUS: #157
Title: Liline, the Moon Girl
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: novelette
“What was the strange frozen fire, somewhere on the moon, the Liline and her sister guarded?”-TOC
“A Strange, sweet voice comes to David Madden in his dreams, and warns him of an awful menace on the moon. What was the strange secret of the flame and its lovely watchers?”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 14, no. 5, May 1940, (May 1940, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 66-86. Cover: C. L. Hartman; Illust: Paul
  • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, Spring 1971, (1971, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 134pp, digest, magazine) , pp. 75-95. Cover: Frank R. Paul

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v14n05_1940-05.Ziff-Daviscape1736FIXED

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OPUS#156 Dictators of Creation

OPUS: #156
Title: Dictators of Creation
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: novelette
“Gold was the God of Adam Hall’s enemies-and he returned from his death in the void to turn that God into a Demon of destruction!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 16, no. 2, May 1940, (May 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Paul
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    OPUS#166 Revolt on the Tenth World

    OPUS: #166
    Title: Revolt on the Tenth World
    Author: Edmond Hamilton
    Year: 1940
    Type: novelette
    Variant Title of: The Revolt on the Tenth World
    “When a man goes wrong in space there’s only one refuge for him – Tenth World, the planet of cutcasts.”-TOC
    “The Tenth World was not the planet Jjm Crane wanted to hail from – but public opinion had condemned him to a lifetime on this mythical world of shame.”
    Publications:

    • Amazing Stories, Vol. 14, no. 11, November 1940, (Nov 1940, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Robert Fuqua; Illust: Julian S. Krupa
    • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, No. 7, Winter 1969, (1969, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Wesso; Illust : Julian S. Krupa

    ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v14n11_1940-11.Ziff-Daviscape1736
    ebook: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesV14N11194011
    ebook: https://archive.org/details/RevoltOnTheTenthWorld/mode/2up

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    OPUS#155 City from the Sea, The

    OPUS: #155
    Title: City from the Sea
    Author: Edmond Hamilton
    Year: 1940
    Type: novelette
    “Good and Evil Spirits Survived on a Lost continent”–TOC
    “The tale of a lost continent cast up by the sea, and the dread menace it held for the people of our world – a thrill-tale of startling perils and eery events”

    Publications:

    • Weird Tales, Vol. 35, no. 3, May 1940, (May 1940, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hannes Bok; Illust: Bok

    ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v35n03_1940-05

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    OPUS#152 Doom Over Venus

    OPUS: #152
    Title: Doom Over Venus
    Author: Edmond Hamilton
    Year: 1940
    Type: novelette
    “Clark Stanton hurtles from the make-believe world of a Venusian dream palace to the grim reality of a fobbiden citadel of science!
    Publications:

    • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 15, no. 2, February 1940, (Feb 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Paul

    ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v15n02_1940-02/page/n85/mode/2up?view=theater

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    OPUS#148 Horror Out of Carthage

    OPUS: #148
    Title: Horror Out of Carthage
    Author: Edmond Hamilton
    Year: 1939
    Type: novelette
    “Across 2000 years went Blaine and Edith to find themselves doomed by history to die in the conquest of ancient Carthage.” – Fantastic Adventures
    “Ever wonder where those old “horror” movies originate? We’re not claiming they all came from the pen of Ed Hamilton, but there is what may very well be the original plot idea for all of them. There’s this old archeologist see, and he has a beauteous daughter and they’re on this dig when all-of-a-sudden…” – Fantastic

    Publications:

    • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 1, no. 3, September 1939, (Sep 1939, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 100pp, Bedsheet, magazine), pp. 6-23. Cover: Harold W. McCauley
    • Fantastic, Vol. 17, no. 6, August 1968, (Aug 1968, ed. Harry Harrison, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 148pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 23-50, 142. Illust : Jay Jackson

    Reviews:

    • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 3. “At the time of the Roman invasion the King of Carthage and the high priestess of Moloch project their minds across time and trade bodies with an archeologist excavating Carthage and his fiance. Only the aid of the King’s jealous wife enables the two Americans to reverse the mind travel process and escape hideous death at the hands of the Romans or sacrifice to Moloch.”

    ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=37013