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OPUS#177 Day of the Micro-Men

OPUS: #177
Title: Day of the Micro-Men
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: short story
Publications:

  • Science Fiction, Vol. 2, no. 6, September 1941, (Sep 1941, ed. Robert W. Lowndes, publ. Columbia Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Doolin or Dolgov???
  • TO THE STARS-& BEYOND!, [1989] *not yet published

“Into the world of the microscopic – thence to the very stars; that was the fate of Gurth, who would sacrifice his all for the freedom of the Micro-Men!”–TOC
“To Gurth, the freedom of his race was the aim of his life – and he faces tortures unbearable to bring the Micro-Men into their own – until he finds the very Earth shrinking beneath him!”

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OPUS#156 Dictators of Creation

OPUS: #156
Title: Dictators of Creation
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: novelette
“Gold was the God of Adam Hall’s enemies-and he returned from his death in the void to turn that God into a Demon of destruction!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 16, no. 2, May 1940, (May 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Paul
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    OPUS#152 Doom Over Venus

    OPUS: #152
    Title: Doom Over Venus
    Author: Edmond Hamilton
    Year: 1940
    Type: novelette
    “Clark Stanton hurtles from the make-believe world of a Venusian dream palace to the grim reality of a fobbiden citadel of science!
    Publications:

    • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 15, no. 2, February 1940, (Feb 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Paul

    ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v15n02_1940-02/page/n85/mode/2up?view=theater

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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#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?.
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    OPUS#115 Death Dolls

    OPUS: #115
    Title: Death Dolls
    Author: Edmond Hamilton
    Year: 1937
    Type: short story
    Publication:

    • Thrilling Detective [v22 #3, May 1937] (10¢, pulp), pp. 78-83.
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    OPUS#104 Devolution

    OPUS: #104
    Title: Devolution
    Author: Edmond Hamilton
    Year: 1936
    Type: short story
    “Edmond Hamilton has long ranked as one of AMAZING STORIES favorite writers and in this narration and entirely orinal turn is given to the events as they succeed.”
    「人類は進化したのではなく、異星から超知性を備えた原形質生物の一隊が太古の地球を訪れ、彼らから退化した存在だというのだ」 – 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. 140

    Publications:

    • Amazing Stories, Vol. 10, no. 13, December 1936, (Dec 1936, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Teck Publications, Inc., $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 90-101. Cover: Leo Morey; illustrated by Leo Morey
    • Amazing Stories, Vol. 35, no. 4, April 1961, (Apr 1961, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 196pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 25-39. Cover: Frank R. Paul
    • Science Fiction Classics Annual, No. 1 (1970, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul
    • Before the Golden Age, (1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Robson Books, 0-903895-28-5, £5.95, xix+986pp, hc, anth) Cover: Timothy Jaques
    • Before the Golden Age, (Apr 1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Doubleday, 0-385-02419-3, $16.95, xix+986pp, hc, anth) Cover: Tim Lewis
    • Before the Golden Age, (May 1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Doubleday / SFBC, #6173, $4.50, xvi+912pp, hc, anth) Cover: Tim Lewis
    • Before the Golden Age Volume Four, (1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-884-1, £0.75, v+256pp, pb, anth)
    • Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930’s: Book 3, (Aug 1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q2525, $1.50, 400pp, pb, anth)
    • Before the Golden Age, Book 3, (Aug 1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q2525, $1.50, 400pp, pb, anth)
    • Before the Golden Age Volume Three, (1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-862-0, £0.95, 400pp, pb, anth)
    • Before the Golden Age, Book 3, (Jun 1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, 0-449-23593-9, $1.95, 400pp, pb, anth)
    • Amazing Stories, Vol. 52, no. 3, May 1979, (May 1979, ed. Omar Gohagen, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $1.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 32-49. Cover: Scott Mavor; Ill : S. Mavor
    • Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada, (1981, ed. John Robert Colombo, publ. Hounslow Press, 181pp, hc, anth)
    • Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada by Foreign Authors, (1981, ed. John Robert Colombo, publ. Hounslow Press, no ISBN, $8.95, 181pp, tp, anth)
    • Amazing Science Fiction Anthology: The War Years 1936-1945, (Apr 1987, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, publ. TSR, 0-88038-440-9, $3.95, 331pp, pb, anth)
    • Before the Golden Age, (1988, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Black Cat / Macdonald & Co, 0-7481-0196-9, £9.95, 828pp, hc, anth)
    • Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century, (Nov 2001, ed. Orson Scott Card, publ. Ace, 0-441-00864-X, $24.95, x+422pp, hc, anth) Cover: Pyrographx
    • Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century, (Dec 2001, ed. Orson Scott Card, publ. Ace / SFBC, #11613, $12.50, x+422pp, hc, anth)
    • Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century, (Mar 2004, ed. Orson Scott Card, publ. Ace, 0-441-01133-0, $14.00, 422pp, tp, anth)
    • Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century, (date unknown, ed. Orson Scott Card, publ. Ace, 0-441-00864-X, $24.95, x+422pp, hc, anth) Cover: Pyrographx

    Reviews:

    • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
    • Review by Frederik Pohl, in: Science Fiction Critic, vol. 1, issue 6 (Dec. 1936), p. 12. [info]

    ebook: http://hairygreeneyeball3.blogspot.jp/2013/10/classic-science-fiction-from-amazing.html
    ebook: BookReader
    ebook: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vwuKM9e0pzCZHLpydyqV3Tq51vr2eHss

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    OPUS#103 Dying Fingers Point

    OPUS: #103
    Title: Dying Fingers Point
    Author: John S. Endicott (Edmond Hamilton)
    Year: 1936
    Type: vignette
    Publication:

    • Popular Detective [v8 #3, October 1936] (Beacon Magazines, Inc., 15¢, 148pp, pulp, cover by Albin Henning), pp. 110-112.
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    OPUS#051 Dogs of Doctor Dwann, The

    OPUS: #051
    Title: The Dogs of Doctor Dwann
    Author: Edmond Hamilton
    Year: 1932
    Type: novelette

    “A blood-chilling story of weird surgery and the things that ran in the night and howled through the Adirondack woods”–TOC
    “An eery, blood-chilling story of weird surgery and the things that ran in the night and howled through the forest in the Adirondack hills”

    Publications:

    • Weird Tales, Vol. 20, no. 4, October 1932, (Oct 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Nelson
    • Startling Mystery Stories. Vol. 3, no. 2=No. 14, Winter 1969
    • Satan’s Pets, (1972, ed. Vic Ghidalia, publ. Manor Books, #478, $0.75, 224pp, pb, anth)

    ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV20N04193210/

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    OPUS#046 Dead Legs

    OPUS: #046
    Title: Dead Legs
    Author: Edmond Hamilton
    Year: 1932
    Type: short story
    “Dall, the gangster, could not know that “Dead Legs” was a prophecy of doom.”

    Publications:

    • Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, Vol. 1, no. 3, January 1932, (Jan 1932, ed. Harry Bates, publ. The Clayton Magazines, Inc., $0.25, 148pp, pulp, magazine), pp. 117-128, 50 Cover: H. W. Wesso
    • Weird Terror Tales. Vol. 1, no. 1, Winter 1969/1970, (publ. Health Knowledge)
    • Strange Tales, (1976, ed. William H. Desmond, Diane Desmond, publ. MA: Odyssey Publications, #OP 6, $4.50, 128pp, tp, anth)
    • 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

    ebook: https://archive.org/details/StrangeTalesOfMysteryAndTerrorV01n03193201