Category Archives: 1930s: 1930-1939

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OPUS#135 Cosmic Hiss, The

OPUS: #135
Title: The Cosmic Hiss
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: short story
“From the Nethermost Regions of Space Visitors by Proxy Search for Earth’s Most Priceless Possession!”

Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 12, no. 6, December 1938, (Dec 1938, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Morey

ebook: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV12N03193812

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OPUS#134 Man Who Lived Twice, The

OPUS: #134
Title: The Man Who Lived Twice
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: short story
“He found himself trapped in the laboratory of an unscrupulous scientist – and centuries passed.”-TOC
“Down and out, Nick Riley answered an ad for a chauffeur, and found himself trapped on an operating table. Awakening once more, he found his brain in the head of the Airlord of Amer.”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 12, no. 6, November 1938, (Nov 1938, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Robert Fuqua; Illust: Robert A. Fuqua
  • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, No. 7, Winter 1969, (1969, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Wesso

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v12n06_1938-11_Ziff-Daviscape1736
ebook: https://archive.org/details/ManWhoLivedTwice

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OPUS#133 Woman from the Ice

OPUS: #133
Title: Woman from the Ice
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: short story
Publications:

  • Thrilling Mystery [v10 #2, September 1938] (Better Publications, Inc., 10¢, 116pp, pulp), pp. 35-43.
  • The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Terror, (Aug 2000, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-06-5, $32.00, xii+345pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom
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OPUS#132 Fire Princess, The

OPUS: #132
Title: The Fire Princess
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: NOVEL
“An intriguing story of tremendous doom threatening the world from central Asia”–TOC of part 2
“An intriguing story about a tremendous doom threatening the world from Central Asia” — TOC of part 3
“A thrill-tale of the dreadful valley of Kours and the Place of Power that was the tomb of the Ancient Ones” – part 1
“A thrill-tale of intrigue and weird horror in the terrible valley of Koom, the hidden city – a story of the Place of Power that was the tomb of the Ancient Ones” – part 2
“A thrill -tale of intrigue and weird horror in the terrible valley of Koom, the hidden city – a story of the Place of Power that was the tomb of the Ancient Ones” – part 3

Magazine Appearances:
The Fire Princess (Part 1 of 3) (1938) – Edmond Hamilton
The Fire Princess (Part 2 of 3) (1938) – Edmond Hamilton
The Fire Princess (Part 3 of 3) (1938) – Edmond Hamilton

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 32, no. 2, August 1938, (Aug 1938, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: None
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 32, no. 3, September 1938, (Sep 1938, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 32, no. 4, October 1938, (Oct 1938, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay

ebook of part2: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v32n03_1938-09_ATLPM-Urf
ebook of part3: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v32n04_1938-10_slpn

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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#130 He That Hath Wings

OPUS: #130
Title: He That Hath Wings
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: novelette
“The story of a modern Icarus, who tasted the freedom of the sky” – WT
“Anthropologists speculated as to whether similar freak winged men had not been born a few times in the remote past giving rise to the world wide legends of harpies, vampires and flying people.” — Fantastic Stories of Imagination-07/63
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 32, no. 1, July 1938, (Jul 1938, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 22-44. Cover: Virgil Finlay; Illust: Unknown
  • Fantastic Stories of Imagination, Vol. 12, no. 7, July 1963, (Jul 1963, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Jacquelyn Blair; Illust : Finlay
  • Worlds of Weird, (Jan 1965, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Pyramid Books, #R-1125, $0.50, 158pp, pb, anth) Cover: Virgil Finlay
  • Weird Legacies, (1977, ed. Mike Ashley, publ. Star (UK), 0-352-39657-1, £0.60, 157pp, pb, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Apr 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, #1561, $2.98, xvii+334pp, hc, coll) Cover: Don Maitz
  • Worlds of Weird, (Apr 1977, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Pyramid Books, #V4471, $1.25, 158pp, pb, anth)
  • 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
  • Worlds of Weird, (Sep 1978, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Jove / HBJ, 0-515-04826-7, $1.50, 158pp, pb, anth)
  • Young Mutants, (1984, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg, Charles Waugh, publ. Harper & Row, 0-06-020156-8, $7.95, 256pp, tp, anth)
  • Young Mutants, (1984, ed. Charles Waugh, Martin Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, publ. Harper & Row, 0-06-020157-6, $10.89, 256pp, hc, anth) Cover: Fred Marcellino
  • Asimov’s Mutants, (Oct 1986, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Dragon (UK), 0-583-30967-4, £1.95, 201pp, pb, anth) Cover: Tony Roberts
  • Mutants, (1988, ed. Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, publ. Harper Starwanderer, 0-694-05629-4, $2.95, 256pp, pb, anth) Cover: Jerry Pinkney
  • 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.pulpmags.org/PDFs/WT_1938_07/index.html
ebook: https://archive.org/details/wt_1938_07

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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#128 Murder in the Void [RC#2]

OPUS: #128
Title: Murder in the Void
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: novelette
Series: Rab Crane
Series number: #2
“An Alien Vandal Seeks Control of the Strangest Scientific Weapon Known to Man!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 11, no. 3, June 1938, (Jun 1938, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 14-30. Cover: Howard V. Brown

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1938jun-00014

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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