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OPUS#197 Shadow Folk, The

OPUS: #197
Title: The Shadow Folk
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1944
Type: short story
“These high, remote peaks were the last refuge for the strangest rae of humans in all the world”
“A land where we, the normal, are strange and terrible, called fearfully by Them – The Others!” — TOC
Publication History:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 1, September 1944, (Sep 1944, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 6-17. Cover: A. R. Tilburne; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1944sep-00006
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n01_1944-09

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OPUS#196 Free-Lance of Space, The

OPUS: #196
Title: The Free-Lance of Space
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1944
Type: short story
“Only one loyality – to himself! Because of it he died with the way to live again locked in his mind”-TOC
“All that stood between mankind and the loss of a life-saving drug was Rake Allan – who hated humanity”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 18, no. 3, May 1944, (May 1944, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 212pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Malcolm Smith; Illust: Julian S. Krupa
  • Science Fiction Adventures Classics, May 1974, (May 1974, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine), pp. 114-132. Cover: James B. Settles

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v18n03_1944-05.Ziff-Daviscape1736

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OPUS#195 Magic Moon [CF#16]

OPUS: #195
Title: Magic Moon
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1944
Type: novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 16
“A Cruel Plot to Seize the Satellite Styx, Third Moon of Pluto, and Enslave Peaceful Natives, Sends Captain Future and His Loyal Aides Out on the Most Dangerous Adventure of Their Careers!”

Publication:

  • Captain Future [v6 #1, Winter 1944] (15¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Earle K. Bergey), pp. 15-92. Illustrated by Orban.

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OPUS#194 Valley of the Assassins, The

OPUS: #194
Title: The Valley of the Assassins
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1943
Type: novelette
“A valley of dreadful doom, this … where time is as nothing to the fiend whose first murderous crimes were committed centuries ago”–TOC
“The mindless sons of murder are feared for what they are – but more for whom they served!”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 37, no. 2, November 1943, (Nov 1943, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: A. R. Tilburne; Illust: A.R. Tilburne
  • Ghouls and Ghosts, (1972, ed. Kurt Singer, publ. W. H. Allen (UK), 0-491-00339-0, 320pp, hc, anth)
  • Shriek, (1974, Kurt Singer, publ. Eclipse Books (Australia), A$1.95, 607pp, pb, omni)
  • Fear! Fear! Fear!, (1980, ed. Helen Hoke, publ. Franklin Watts, 0-531-04255-3, 144pp, hc, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v37n02_1943-11_sas

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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#192 Exile

OPUS: #192
Title: Exile
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1943
Type: short story
“In the depth of his mind he built a world of fear – than had to live in it!”
Publications:

  • Super Science Stories, Vol. 4, no. 4, May 1943, (May 1943, ed. Alden H. Norton, publ. Fictioneers, Inc.; Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: Virgil Finlay; Illust: Morey
  • Super Science Stories (Canadian), April 1944, (Apr 1944, ed. Alden H. Norton, publ. Popular Publications, Inc.; Toronto, Canada, C$0.15, 84pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey
  • Looking Forward, (1953, ed. Milton Lesser, publ. The Beechhurst Press, $4.95, 400pp, hc, anth)
  • Looking Forward, (1955, ed. Milton Lesser, publ. Cassell & Company Ltd., 400pp, hc, anth)
  • 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
  • Space 7, (1981, ed. Richard Davis, publ. Hutchinson, 0-09-144350-4, £5.50, 160pp, hc, anth) Cover: David A. Hardy
  • The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 5, 1943, (Mar 1981, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. DAW Books, 0-87997-604-7, $2.75, 380pp, pb, anth) Cover: One Plus One Studio
  • Peter Davison’s Book of Alien Planets, (1983, ed. Peter Davison (Doctor Who), publ. Sparrow Books, 0-09-930880-0, £0.95, 96pp, pb, anth)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Third Series, (1984, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, 0-517-43522-5, 633pp, hc, anth) Cover: Romas
  • 101 Science Fiction Stories, (Jun 1986, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Jenny-Lynn Waugh, publ. Avenel Books, 0-517-60669-0, $7.98, 651pp, hc, anth)
  • 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories, (Sep 1996, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Barnes & Noble, 0-7607-0142-3, $7.98, xvi+544pp, hc, anth) Cover: Cheryl Knippenburg
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

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OPUS#191 No-Man's-Land of Time

OPUS: #191
Title: No-Man’s-Land of Time
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1943
Type: short story

“Ancient Assyrian warriors, a girl from olden Cyrene, a man from six hundred years in the future-all were here in this strange oasis in the Sahara, where Cronin and a Fighting French officer sought a dangerous enemy agent!”–TOC

Publications:

  • Science Fiction Stories, Vol. 3, no. 4, April 1943, (Apr 1943, ed. Robert W. Lowndes, publ. Columbia Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: Milton Luros; Illust: Lillis
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OPUS#190 Face of the Deep, The [CF#13]

OPUS: #190
Title: The Face of the Deep (Complete Novel)
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1943
Type: Novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 13
“Carried Far Outside the Solar System, and Wrecked on a Volcanic Planetoid in Company with s Shipload of condemned Criminals, Captain Future Faces the Supreme Test of His Courage!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 5, no. 1, Winter 1943, (Jan 1943, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), Cover: Bergey Illust: Orban

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Captain_Future_v05n01_1942_-_Better

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OPUS#189 World With a Thousand Moons, The

OPUS: #189
Title: The World with a Thousand Moons
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novelette
“There was terrible danger among the moons circling this world, but even greater menace on its surface.”-TOC
“Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, no. 12, December 1942, (Dec 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Ned Hadley
  • The World with a Thousand Moons, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Wildside Press, 978-1-4344-0971-3, $3.99, 56pp, tp)
    The World with a Thousand Moons, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #32317, ebook
  • TO THE STARS-& BEYOND, [1989] *Not Yet Published

ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone3231732317.html
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32317
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v16n12_1942-12.Ziff-Daviscape1736
ebook: https://scifistories.com/s/540/the-world-with-a-thousand-moons

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OPUS#188 Lost City of Burma

OPUS: #188
Title: Lost City of Burma
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“Deep inside Burma was a great secret! – and when the secret came aout it meant hell for the Japs!”–TOC
“The Japs stormed on until they faced the legendary Flame of Life, then all hell rode the Burma Road”

「ビルマのジャングル深部で、アメリカ人と日本人が、互いに競いあって”生命の炎”を捜す。日本人のほうが先に発見するのだが、彼は”炎”に捕らえられて、戻ることができなくなってしまう。」 – マイク・アシュリー著; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史 : パルプマガジンの饗宴』（東京創元社, 2004.7） p. 208
Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 4, no. 12, December 1942, (Dec 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: H. W. McCauley

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 41. “An American and a Jap seek the Flame of Life, an Asian superstition about a fire which confers immortality. The Jap wishes to use the religious force of the Flame to control the Asians, and the American is_trying to stop him. They find a lost city deep in Burma where the Jap enlists the aid of an unsettled faction in penetrating to the land of immortal serpent men who guard the Flame. The Flame is a radioactive geyser, and the Jap becomes immortal and plans to return with his forces. But the American has the last laugh! The immortal men cannot stray far from the Flame without great pain.”

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68340