Category Archives: short story (4-20 pages)

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OPUS#131 Horror in the Telescope, The

OPUS: #131
Title: The Horror in the Telescope
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: short fiction
“The Giant Eye revealed a truth too awful to disclose”–TOC
“The All-seeing eye revealed things undreamed of – Things that were better life concealed …”

Publications:

  • Tales of Wonder, #3, Summer 1938, (Jul 1938, ed. Walter H. Gillings, publ. World’s Work Ltd., 1/-, 128pp, pulp, magazine)
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OPUS#129 Great Illusion, The

OPUS: #129
Title: The Great Illusion
Author: Will Garth (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1938
Type: short story
“The Earth Is Held in Cosmic Bondage Until One Man Unleashes Its Mighty Shackles!”
Publication:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories [v11 #3, June 1938] (15¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Brown), pp. 97-103, 129.

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1938jun-00097

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OPUS#127 Isle of the Sleeper, The

OPUS: #127
Title: The Isle of the Sleeper
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: short story

“If we are but images in the dreams of some supernal being who slumbers will happen when the Sleeper awakes? – A strange and fantastic story”

“If we are but images in the dreams of some supernal being who slumbers, who will happen when the Sleeper awakes?”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 31, no. 5, May 1938, (May 1938, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 43, no. 4, May 1951, (May 1951, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.25, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Lee Brown Coye
  • The Ghoul Keepers, (Oct 1961, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Pyramid Books, #G-665, $0.35, 157pp, pb, anth) Cover: John Schoenherr
  • The Ghoul Keepers, (Jul 1965, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Pyramid Books, #R-1210, $0.50, 157pp, pb, anth) Cover: John Schoenherr
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • To Sleep, Perchance to Dream… Nightmare, (Mar 1993, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, publ. Barnes & Noble, 0-88029-903-7, $9.98, 510pp, hc, anth) Cover: Kevin Kelly

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v31n05_1938-05_sas

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OPUS#126 Easy Money

OPUS: #126
Title: Easy Money
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: short story
“Slugger Martin Enters the World of Psycho-Control-and Discovers That Mind Is Mightier Than Muscle!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 11, no. 2, April 1938, (Apr 1938, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) pp. 55-63. Cover: Howard V. Brown
  • 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)

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1938apr-00055

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OPUS#125 Power Pit 13

OPUS: #125
Title: Power Pit 13
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: short story
Publication:

  • Thrilling Adventures [v24 #3, February 1938] ed. J. S. Williams (Standard Magazines; New York, 10¢, pulp) , pp. 56-66.
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OPUS#124 House of Living Music, The

OPUS: #124
Title: The House of Living Music
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: short story
“A tragic weird-scientific tale about a composer who could re-create all visible things in sound”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 31, no. 1, January 1938, (Jan 1938, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v31n01_1938-01_sas

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OPUS#123 When Space Burst

OPUS: #123
Title: When Space Burst
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1937
Type: short story
“Again and Again the Pioneer Tried to Plunge Through a Mighty Cosmic Barrier!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 10, no. 3, December 1937, (Dec 1937, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 90-98. Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Marchioni

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1937dec-00090

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OPUS#121 Prize Title Contest Story

OPUS: #121
Title: Prize Title Contest Story
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1937
Type: short story
Note: “Name This Story – Win a Cash Prize”–TOC

Publication:

  • The Phantom Detective [v20 #3, October 1937] (10¢, pulp), pp. 102-111.
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OPUS#120 Holmes' Folly

OPUS: #120
Title: Holmes’ Folly
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1937
Type: short story
“The Power and the Glory Were His for the Taking, But a Strange Visitor Changed His Plans!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 10, no. 2, October 1937, (Oct 1937, ed. Mort Weisinger, $0.15, 132pp, magazine), pp. 59-63. Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Wesso

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1937oct-00059

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OPUS#116 Space Mirror [RC#1]

OPUS: #116
Title: Space Mirror
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1937
Type: short story
Series: Rab Crane
Series number: #1
“The Mighty Solar Machine that Meant Safety to Humanity was in Danger — and Only the Terrestrial Secret Service Could Protect the Earth!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 10, no. 1, August 1937, (Aug 1937, ed. Mort Weisinger, $0.15, 132pp, magazine) Cover: H. W. Wesso; Illust: Wesso

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v10n01_1937-08