The Monsters of Juntonheim (UK edition)

The Monsters of Juntonheim :
a Complete Book-Length Novel of Amazing Adventure
“A long American invades a Miracle Land that time forget – and finds a Wonder Realm that is forbidden to all mortals.”
Publisher: London : World Distributors/Sidney Pemberton, 1950
Pagination: 160 p. ; 19 cm.
Series: A World Fantasy Classic ;
Note: pbk
Original: A Yank at Valhalla
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A Yank at Valhalla (Ace Double)

A Yank at Valhalla
New York : Ace Books, 1973.3. –
128, 156 p. ; 18 cm. – (Ace Double ; 93900) pbk
Bound With: The Sun Destroyers / by Rocklynne
NUC: 80-547035
“Only a mortal could escape the Twilight of the Gods!” — Cover
We stood petrified by horror in that foggy, stone-walled corridor, gazing cataleptically at the hideous creature whose reptilian head was rearing up from the curling white mists. Freya’s slim figure had shrunk against me witha a choking cry. Frey stood in front of us, his sword raised, his face wild as he looked up at the looming head.
The hideous, abnormally huge coils could only be glimpsed in the mists beyond. But the giant spade-shaped head that hung above us was clear to our appalled vision. The enormous, opaline eyes were brilliant as they stared down at us.
“The Midgard snake!” Frey whispered.
“Jarl Keith!” Frey screamed to me.
The great head of the snake Iormungandr abruptly darted toward us.
Book Reviews:

  • Son of WSFA Journal. 90:3. May 1973. (D. D’Ammassa)

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The Magician of Mars (Popular Library)

The Magician of Mars
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2450) pbk
“The Solar System’s most dangerous criminal _ an evil super-genus _ sets out to destroy Captain Future” — cover
Captain Future’s most cunning opponent
His real name is Ul Quorn, but he is known throughout the Solar System as the Magician of Mars. With sheer scientific mastery and cunning he once terrorised the entire population of all nine planets – until Captain Future put an end to his evil deeds.
Now Ul Quorn has broken loose from the escape-proof Interplanetary Prison – a feat that was believed impossible. His plan to obtain wealth and power is more ingenious than ever before and more deadly to the System.
Soon he will be master of the Universe. But first he must settle a score with Captain Future…
Book Reviews:

  • Luna Monthly. 19:22. December 1970. (D. Paskow)

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The Lake of Life (Lost Fantasies)

The Lake of Life
Publisher: Chicago : Robert Weinberg, 1978. –
Pagination: 80 p. ; cm. – (Lost Fantasies ; No. 8)
Note: Bound With: The Hunch / G. Lyle – The Inn / R. Ernest
Note: Reprinted from Weird Tales. Vol. 30, no. 3, 4, 5 (9,10,11-1937)
A weird-scientific thrill-tale of adventure, mystery and romance – of the waters of immortality, the strange Red and Black cities, and the dread Guardians that watched eternally over that terrible glowing lake.
1 The Legion of the Damned 4
2 The Lake of Life 9
3 The Mountains of Death 12
4 Into the Mystery 17
5 The Crimson City 22
6 The King of K’Lamm 30
7 Thargo’s Treachery 33
8 The Fight at the Gate 39
9 Dordona 45
10 Down the Stair 48
11 The Temptation 53
12 The Attack 57
13 Thargo Drinks 61
14 The Guardians 66
15 Epilogue 71
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Kaldar, Mundo de Antares : La Saga de Merrick de la Tierra

Kaldar, Mundo de Antares. La Saga de Merrick de la Tierra (SM#1, SM#2, SM#3)

Translator: Pedro Cañas Navarro
Publisher: Costas de Carcosa
Date: noviembre 2018
Pagination: 198 p. ; 195×116 mm.
Series: Plateada
ISBN: 978-84-949604-0-6

Contents:
p. 7−16 Prólogo: El mundo del “destructor de mundos” / Javier Jiménez Barco
p. 19-84 Kaldar, mundo de Antares (Kaldar, World of Antares)
p. 85-143 Los hombres serpiente de Kaldar (The Snake-Men of Kaldar)
p. 145-196 El gran cerebro de Kaldar (The Great Brain of Kaldar)

Nueve científicos, astrónomos y astrofísicos, encuentran un método para viajar a estrellas lejanas, con el fin de investigar y descubrir otros mundos. Para ello y a través de un anuncio contactan con un aventurero, Stuart Merrick, que está decidido a embarcarse en este reto Allí encontrará a seres humanos pero también a otras razas humanoides y desconocidas.
A través de tres historias cortas desarrolla Edmond Hamilton, las aventuras de Stuart Merrick en un exótico planeta del sistema Antares.

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A comienzos de los años 30, justo al inicio de la edad dorada de Weird Tales, el joven autor Edmond Hamilton decidió probar suerte con el subgénero de planetas peligrosos y escribió, a la manera del John Carter de Marte de Edgar Rice Burroughs, tres novelas cortas consecutivas acerca de las aventuras de un terrícola en un exótico planeta del sistema Antares.

The Haunted Stars (UK edition)

The Haunted Stars
London : H. Jenkins, 1965. –
174 p. ; 20 cm.
Cover: Brian Lewis NUC: 80-547042
It meant little to Robert Fairlie, a serious and dedicated young philologist, that the United States and Soviet Russia were at odds about the Moon. He had little interest in the first rocket landings on the bases that the two nations had built there.
and he neither knew nor cared why the Americans would not agree to mutual inspections of these bases.
Yet the American had reason enough: and quite unexpectedly, because of his specialized knowledge of languages, he found himself sharing the burden of an incredible secret. For what the Americans base had yielded was astounding evidence that space had already been conquered many countries before bya a people who had once spanned the stars. There had been machines and destructive weapons beyond the comprehension of present-day scientists which, if knowledge of them fell into the wrong hands, could plunge the world into unutterable chaos.
Fairlie’s trip to the closely-guarded rocket base in New Mexico turned out to be only the first step on a fantastic journey amid the unexplored stars to the home-world of the space-conquerors of long ago.
It was a journey into the appalling reality of stellar space still haunted by the past cosmic struggle whose scale in space and time dwarfed th rivalries of tiny Earth’s quarrelling nations.
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The Haunted Stars : a Science Fiction Novel (Pyramid)

The Haunted Stars : a Science Fiction Novel
New York : Pyramid Books, 1962.2. –
159 p. ; 18 cm. – (Pyramid Books ; F-698)
Cover: Kandinsky
“A tense tale of the near future – and of man’s destiny among” — Cover
They called it operation darkness …
In strictest secrecy the team of scientists and linguistic experts worked feverishly over the ancient manchines and inscriptions they had found on the Moon – relics of a civilization that had visited the Solar System 300 centuries ago. Here was the secret of space travel … the road back to The Haunted Stars.
Then they found the way to use the secret – and with it a truth they dared not face!
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Book review

  • Malcolm, Donald, in: Vector, no. 33, June 1965

The Haunted Stars – Book Club Edition –

The Haunted Stars – Book Club Edition –
New York : Distributed by Dodd-Mead, 1960.1. –
192 p. ; 22 cm. – (A Torquil Book) LCCN: 59-15721
Note: No price, BOOK CLUB|EDITION in lower right corner of front dust jacket flap. Both club issue. No statement of printing on copyright page. – Currey’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: a Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction
Note: Gutter code B3 indicates a January 1960 printing. This first printing was from the same press run as the trade edition which has the same code. — Cuurey’s ???
Note: A second printing in April 1960 has a gutter code of “B18” — Currey’s ???
IT MEANT LITTLE  to young Robert Fairlie, a serious and dedicated philologist, that in this year 1966 the United States and Soviet Russia were contentious about the Moon. He had little interest in the first two rocket landings on the moon, and the bases that the two nations had built there. He knew nothing at all of the shattering discovery that the Americans had made there.
For what had been found was of such explosive potentialities that it had to be kept top-secret – the discovery that space had already been conquered long ago by races who had once spanned the stars. So that men who had expected to spend decades in reaching the nearest planet, found suddenly in their hands the way to the wider universe.
Fairlie, drawn unexpectedly because of his special knowledge into this greatest of secrets, finds that a guarded New Mexico rocket-base is only the first step of the way. That way leads out amid the unexplored stars to the lost heartworld of those space-conquerors of long ago. And it leads Fairlie and others into the appalling reality of stellar space still haunted by the past cosmic struggle whose scale in space and time dwarfs the rivalries of tiny Earth’s quarreling nations.
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