Category Archives: 1930s: 1930-1939

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OPUS#119 Lake of Life, The

OPUS: #119
Title: The Lake of Life
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1978
Type: novella
“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 terribly glowing lake”
Magazine Appearances:
The Lake of Life (Part 1 of 3) (1937) – Edmond Hamilton
“A weird-scientific story replete with thrills, adventure, mystery and romance”
The Lake of Life (Part 2 of 3) (1937) – Edmond Hamilton
The Lake of Life (Part 3 of 3) (1937) – Edmond Hamilton
“A weird-scientific story replete with thrills, adventure, mystery and romance.”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 30, No. 3, September 1937, (Sep 1937, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 30, No. 4, October 1937, (Oct 1937, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay
  •  Weird Tales, Vol. 30, No. 5, November 1937, (Nov 1937, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay
  • The Lake of Life, (1978, ed. Robert Weinberg, publ. Robert Weinberg (Lost Fantasies #8), $5.50, 80pp, tp, anth) Cover: Marcus Boas

ebook: http://www.pulpmags.org/PDFs/WT_1937_10/index.html
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OPUS#122 Child of Atlantis

OPUS: #122
Title: Child of Atlantis
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1937
Type: novelette
“What brooding shape of horror dwels (sic) in the black castle that topped the sinister island?”
“What brooding shape of horror dwelt in the black castle that topped the sinister island on which a young American and his wife were shipwrecked on their honeymoon?”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 30, no. 6, December 1937, (Dec 1937, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 708-725. Cover: Virgil Finlay

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OPUS#097 Door into Infinity, The

OPUS: #097
Title: The Door into Infinity
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: novelette
“An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events.”
“An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events” — TOC
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 28, no. 2, August/September 1936, (Sep 1936, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 130-153. Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Napoli
  • The Second Leonaur Book of Supernatural Detectives, (2015, publ. Leonaur)

ebook: http://www.pulpmags.org/weird_tales_page.html
ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone3284732847-8.html
ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_28/Issue_2/The_Door_into_Infinity
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32847
ebook: https://archive.org/details/weird_tales_august-september_1936
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OPUS#048 Three from the Tomb, The

OPUS: #048
Title: The Three From the Tomb
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette

“A dramatic thrill-tale about three millionaires, dead and buried for month, who reappeared among the living”–TOC
“A thrill-tale of surgery – three millionaires, dead and buried who reappear in the world of the living”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 19, no. 2, February 1932, (Feb 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Doolin
  • Startling Mystery Stories, Vol. 2, no. 2=No. 8, Spring 1968, (1968, ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes, publ. Health Knowledge, Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Virgil Finlay

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v19n02_1932-02_sas

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OPUS#118 Death Comes in Glass (GH#2)

OPUS: #118
Title: Death Comes in Glass
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1937
Type: short story
Publication:

  • Thrilling Detective [v25 #1, September 1937] (10¢, pulp), pp. 54-61.
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OPUS#061 Snake-Men of Kaldar, The [SM#2]

OPUS: #061
Title: The Snake-Men of Kaldar
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette
Series: Stuart Merrick
Series number: #2
“Kaldar, World of Antares – a mighty tale of red warfare an a distant planet”–TOC
“Another mighty tale of Kaldar, world of Antares – a tale of red warfare against a race of monsters on a distant planet”

Publications:

  • The Magic Carpet Magazine, Vol. 3, no. 4, October 1933, (Oct 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Pub. Co., $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: M. Brundage; Illust : Wilcox
  • Magic Carpet Magazine, (1977, ed. William H. Desmond, Diane M. Howard, John R. Howard, Robert K. Wiener, publ. Odyssey Publications, # OP9, 128pp, tp, anth) Cover: Margaret Brundage , J. Allen St. John
  • Kaldar: World of Antares, (Nov 1998, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-01-4, $55.00, 219pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom

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OPUS#193 Star of Dread, The [CF#15]

OPUS: #193
Title: The Star of Dread
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1943
Type: novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 15
“The world’s greatest space-farers battle to expose a dangerous secret menacing mankind and face desperate risks as they pursue two scheming miscreants across the void!”–TOC

Publication:

  • Captain Future [v5 #3, Summer 1943] (15¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Earle K. Bergey), pp. 13-90. Illustrated by Thomas.
  • Captain Future, Summer 1943, (Oct 2009, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Adventure House, 978-1-59798-242-9, $14.95, 128pp, tp, anth) Cover: Earle K. Bergey
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OPUS#149 Dweller in the Darkness

OPUS: #149
Title: Dweller in the Darkness
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: short story

“A public enemy gains the advantage of complete invisibility – only to find it the supreme curse!”–TOC
“Public Enemy Number One Forces Dr. Geary to give him the secret of invisibility, so that he could better prey upon his victims – but he does not suspect the awful horror that accompanies the experiment!”

Publications:

  • Science Fiction, Vol. 1, no. 4, October 1939, (Oct 1939, ed. Charles D. Hornig, publ. Blue Ribbon Magazines, $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Schomburg
  • Science Fiction (UK), October 1939

ebook: https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionv01n04193910/page/n55/mode/2up

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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.”

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OPUS#147 Debtor at Eight

OPUS: #147
Title: Debtor at Eight
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: short story or vignette
“There’s a time and place for everything, even murder, but eight o’clock in a modern study, isn’t it!”
Publication:

  • Detective Short Stories [v2 #4, September 1939] (Manvis Publications, Inc., 10¢, 116pp, pulp), pp. 68-70?.