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OPUS#213 King of Shadows, The

OPUS: #213
Title: The King of Shadows
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1947
Type: short story
“Some say the great rebel against the Gods, the lord of evil whose name is Erlik, is right here on earth” — TOC
“No sword or gun can avail against what lies within these peaks.”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 9, January 1947, (Jan 1947, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 38-49. Cover: A. R. Tilburne; Illust: Tilburne
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1947jan-00038
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n09_1947-01

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OPUS#212 Never the Twain Shall Meet

OPUS: #212
Title: Never the Twain Shall Meet
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1946
Type: short story
“John Farrel keeps his tryst with Ylleen, whose love means death”–TOC
“Out in space John Farrel keeps his tryst with Ylleen, gorgeous Martian girl whose love means — sudden death!”
Publication:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories [v29 #1, Fall 1946] (15¢, 116pp, pulp, cover by Earle Bergey), pp. 60-69. Illustrated by Marchioni.

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v29n01_1946-Fall/page/n59/mode/2up?view=theater

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OPUS#211 Day of Judgment

OPUS: #211
Title: Day of Judgment
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: short story
“Have you wondered about the future; about what form of life will inherits the Earth?”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 7, September 1946, (Sep 1946, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 20-27. Cover: Pete Kuhlhoff; Illust: Dolgov
  • 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 Last Man on Earth, (Aug 1982, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Fawcett Crest / Ballantine, 0-449-24531-4, $2.95, 352pp, pb, anth) Cover: Wayne Douglas Barlowe
  • 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/WeirdTales-1946sep-00020
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n07_1946-09

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OPUS#209 Indestructible Man

OPUS: #209
Title: Indestructible Man
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: short story
“Death holds no threat for Phil Ryan as he dares bullets, floods and other lethal threats while battling to protect the world’s greatest secret!”–TOC
“Death holds no terror for Phil Ryan, freak of science, as he dares bullets, floods and other lethal threats while he battles to protect the greatest secret in the whole world!”

Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 28, no. 2, Spring 1946, (Apr 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Marchioni or John Norman ?

ebook: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV28N021946Sp

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OPUS#208 Dead Planet, The

OPUS: #208
Title: The Dead Planet
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: short story
“Star travelers from a distant galaxy crash on a lost world” — TOC
“Star travelers from a distant galaxy crash on a last world to confront horror and wonder – and a shocking surprise!”

Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 13, no. 3, Spring 1946, (May 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 84-89. Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Morey
  • Worlds of Tomorrow: Science-Fiction With a Difference, (1953, ed. August Derleth, publ. Pellegrini & Cudahy, $3.95, 351pp, hc, anth) Cover: Ronald Clyne
  • Worlds of Tomorrow, (1955, ed. August Derleth, publ. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 9/6, 224pp, hc, anth)
  • Worlds of Tomorrow, (Oct 1958, ed. August Derleth, publ. Berkley, #G-163, $0.35, 172pp, pb, anth) Cover: Richard Powers
  • Worlds of Tomorrow, (1963, ed. August Derleth, publ. Four Square Books, #794, 2/6, 160pp, pb, anth)
  • Exploring Other Worlds, (1963, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Collier Books, #as551, $0.95, 256pp, pb, anth)
  • Exploring Other Worlds, (1967, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Collier Books, #02311, $0.95, 256pp, pb, anth) Cover: Don Ivan Punchatz
  • Worlds of Tomorrow, (Jul 1967, ed. August Derleth, publ. Four Square Books, #1922, 3/6, 160pp, pb, anth)
  • Exploring Other Worlds, (1969, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Collier Books, #02311, $0.95, 256pp, pb, anth) Cover: Don Ivan Punchatz
  • Ghosts, Castles, and Victims: Studies in Gothic Horror, (Aug 1974, ed. Jack C. Wolf, Barbara H. Wolf, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q1997, $1.50, 576pp, pb, anth)
  • Space Stories, (Sep 1996, ed. Mike Ashley, publ. Robinson Children’s Books, 1-85487-451-9, £4.99, xii+402pp, tp, anth)
  • The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories, (Jun 1997, ed. Mike Ashley, publ. Random House, 0-679-88527-7, $9.99, xii+402pp, tp, anth) Cover: Neal McPheeters
  • Bruce Coville’s Strange Worlds, (Feb 2000, ed. Bruce Coville, publ. Avon Camelot, 0-380-80256-2, $4.99, 196pp, tp, anth) Cover: Ernie Colon

Book review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 56. “A good one about aliens who discover the lost planet of Earth, guarded by its dead.”

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/StartlingStories-1946q1-00084
ebook: https://archive.org/details/StartlingStoriesV13N031946Spring

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OPUS#207 Forgotten World

OPUS: #207
Title: Forgotten World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: novelette
“Star-sick Laird Carlin is ordered back to Earth for a rest cure – and there on the ancient, ancestral planet, his love for a girl lures him into the toils of a weird conspiracy!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 28, no. 1, Winter 1946, (Feb 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: THM
  • The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction, (1954, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, $3.95, 580pp, hc, anth)
  • Fantastic Story Magazine, Vol. 7, no. 3, Fall 1954, (Oct 1954, ed. Samuel Mines, publ. Best Books, Inc., $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Jack Coggins
  • Race to the Stars, (Oct 1958, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Crest Books / Fawcett Publications, #s245, $0.35, 224pp, pb, anth) Cover: Stanley Meltzoff

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v28n01_1946-01-Winter/page/n11/mode/2up?view=theater

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OPUS#206 Outlaw World [CF#19]

OPUS: #206
Title: Outlaw World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: novella
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 19
“On the trail of malevolent space pirates, Curt Newton and the Futuremen combat the evil machinations of the Uranian Ru Ghur, who plans the total destruction of the Universe!”

Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 1946, (Jan 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc.; Chicago, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Orban
  • Startling Stories (Canada), Vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 1946
  • Startling Stories (Canada), No. 1, June 1949
  • Outlaw World, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2376, $0.60, 126pp, pb) Cover: Frank Frazetta

Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 19. “Edmond Hamilton’s last Captain Future novel, though he wrote several excellent novelettes on the subject for Startling Stories a few years later. This one is a prettyfair entry in the series, concerning the Futuremen’s search for the location of the secret outlaw world whose unscrupulous overlord is plotting a monumental crime coup with the aid of the radium he has been stealing all over the Solar System. Reprinted in 1969 in paperback by Popular Library. “
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OPUS#205 Lost Elysium [BC#2]

OPUS: #205
Title: Lost Elysium
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
Series: Brian Cullan (BC)
Series number: #2
“There is a world congruent with Earth but existing on a different plane of vibration, a world of unearthly beauty–and horror!”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 2, November 1945, (Nov 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesVolume38Number03Canadian
ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Weird_Tales_volume_38_number_03_CAN.djvu/6

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OPUS#204 Trouble on Triton

OPUS: #204
Title: Trouble on Triton
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
“Web Carter stages a drama that is not in the script”– TOC
“To save the starving natives of Triton, Web Carter stages a drama that is not in the script!”

Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 12, no. 3, Fall 1945, (Oct 1945, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Marchioni

Book review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 55. “Good old-fashioned space opera by the master practitioner of the genre.”

ebook: https://archive.org/details/StartlingStoriesV12n031945Fall56ufikusDPP

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OPUS#203 Inn Outside the World, The

OPUS: #203
Title: The Inn Outside the World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
“The aged statesman complained that intolerance, old grudges and ambitious men plague this world eternally”–TOC
“The night over some parts of the world may indeed be a long, long night”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 6, July 1945, (Jul 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Dolgov
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Nov 1949, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, xiv+556pp, hc, anth)
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Aug 1950, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, xiv+556pp, hc, anth)
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (May 1954, ed. Oscar J. Friend, Leo Margulies, publ. Pocket, #1007, $0.25, viii + 263pp, pb, anth) Cover: E. M. Godschalk
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Jul 1954, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Pocket, #1007, $0.25, viii + 263pp, pb, anth) Cover: E. M. Godschalk
  • Most Thrilling Science Fiction, No. 14, Fall 1969
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Science Fact/Fiction, (1974, ed. Edmund J. Farrell, Thomas E. Gage, John Pfordresher, Raymond J. Rodrigues, publ. Scott Foresman and Company, 0-673-03407-0, xv+394pp, tp, anth)
  • Lost Stars 2, (Dec 2004, ed. Jean Marie Stine, publ. Renaissance E Books, 1-58873-546-X, $4.99, 249pp, ebook, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n06_1945-07_sas