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OPUS#275 Horror from the Magellanic, The [SK#2-4]

OPUS: #275
Title: The Horror from the Magellanic
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1969
Type: novelette
Series: Star Kings
Series Number: 2
Note: This story became part of the fix-up novel Return to the Stars (1969).

When Edmond Hamilton’s THE STAR KINGS first appeared in these pages, more than twenty years ago (in the September, 1947 issue of AMAZING STORIES, to be exact), it was heralded by a stunning Malcolm Smith cover that only hinted of the novel’s impact upon its readers. Frederick Fell, Inc. published the book in hard covers in 1949 — a pioneer venture — and Signet Books brought it out in paperback form in 1950 as BEYOND THE MOON. (That rather pedestrian job of retitling said a good deal about the state of science fiction in the paperbacks in 1950.) It went through several printings before Signet apparently lost interest in the book and let it lapse.

But the fans did not forget. Nor did Cele Goldsmith, when she became editor of this magazine. And in September, 1964 — seventeen years later to the month — Hamilton returned with KINGDOMS OF THE STARS the first of a projected series of sequels to THE STAR KINGS. Since then two more of the novelettes have been published: THE SHORES OF INFINITY (April, 1965) and THE BROKEN STARS (FANTASTIC, December, 1968).

With great pleasure we now present the fourth new novelette of the Star Kings and the epic adventurer, John Gordon —

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 43, no. 1, May 1969, (May 1969, ed. Ted White, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 148pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 6-38. illustrated by Dan Adkins
  • Return to the Stars, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Lancer, #447-74612, $0.75, 207pp, pb) Cover: Jim Steranko
  • Chronicles of the Star Kings, (Apr 1986, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Arrow (Venture SF #10), 0-09-947860-9, £2.50, 190+207pp, pb, omni)
  • Stark and the Star Kings, (Aug 2005, Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-16-2, $45.00, xviii+625pp, hc, omni) Cover: Alex Ebel
  • Stark and the Star Kings, (Aug 2005, Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-17-0, $125.00, xviii+625pp, hc, omni) Cover: Alex Ebel
  • Return to the Stars, (Feb 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 4-477-46127-5, $4.00, ebook) Cover: Doug Chaffee
  • The Eric John Stark Saga, (Feb 2008, Leigh Brackett, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni)
  • Return to the Stars, (date unknown, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Magnum / Prestige, #74-612, $1.50, 207pp, pb) Cover: Jim Steranko

Reviews:

  • Review by Lester del Rey (1970) in If, July-August 1970

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v43n01_1969-05/page/n5

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OPUS#260 Haunted Stars, The

OPUS: #260
Title: The Haunted Stars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1960
Type: NOVEL
Publications:

  • The Haunted Stars, (Mar 1960, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, Mead/Torquil / SFBC, $1.20, 192pp, hc)
  • The Haunted Stars, (Mar 1960, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, Mead/Torquil, $2.95, 192pp, hc)
  • The Haunted Stars, (Mar 1960, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, C$3.50, 192pp, hc)
  • in: Tyrone Daily Herald, May-August, 1961 [info]
  • in:Reading Eagle (Sunday Eagle : Book of the Week), Aug. 20-Oct. 22, 1961,  [ebook]
  • in: Brooklyn Daily, []-[], 1961.
  • in: The Daily Courier, []-[], 1961.
  • The Haunted Stars, (Feb 1962, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Pyramid Books, #F-698, $0.40, 159pp, pb) Cover: V. Kandinsky
  • The Haunted Stars, (1965, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Herbert Jenkins, 12/6, 174pp, hc) Cover: Brian Lewis
  • The Haunted Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-1-5150-0698-5, $4.00, ebook) Cover: V. Kandinsky
  • King of Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee

Reviews:

  • Review by S. E. Cotts (1960) in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, July 1960
  • Review by uncredited (1960) in New Frontiers, vol. 1, no. 3, August 1960, p. 45-46.
  • Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1960) in Analog Science Fact -> Fiction, November 1960
  • Review by Floyd C. Gale (1963) in Galaxy Magazine, April 1963
  • Review by Donald Malcolm (1965) in Vector 33
  • Amazing. 34(7):137. July 1960. (S. Cotts)
  • Analog. 66(3):167-168. November 1960. (P. Miller)
  • Books & Bookmen. 10:31. Sept., 1965.
  • Galaxy. 21(4):156-157. April 1963. (F. Gale)
  • Punch. 248:5. Apr. 7. 1965.
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OPUS#229 Harpers of Titan, The [CF#23]

OPUS: #229
Title: The Harpers of Titan
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1950
Type: novelette
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 23
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“Again Simon Wright, the “Brain” lives in a human body, and in that guise contends with the most hideous peril he has ever faced – a menace driving a planet to madness!”
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 22, no. 1, September 1950, (Sep 1950, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey
  • Startling Stories (Canada), Vol. 22, no. 1, September 1950
  • Startling Stories (UK), No. 4, December 1950
  • Dr. Cyclops, (1967, ed. uncredited, publ. Popular Library, #445-02485-060, $0.60, 127pp, pb, anth) Cover: Herbert J. Bruck

Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 68. “Excellent Captain Future story of the people of Saturn’s largest moon and the strange cult of the Harpers that obsessed them almost to madness, and of how Simon Wright, the bodiless brain and long-time mentor of Curt Newton, had to take on full human guise once more in order to combat this bizarre menace.”

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Startling_Stories_v22n01_1950-09.Better (lack of many pages)

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OPUS#170 Horse That Talked, The

OPUS: #170
Title: The Horse That Talked
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novelette
“China Boy wasn’t that kind of a horse you meet every day. He could talk, and he could drink. And as it turned out, he could do both a good deal faster than he could run”
“China Boy was a racehorse – by his own admission. But maybe China Boy was a bit inclined to boast -” TOC
Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 3, no. 1, January 1941, (Jan 1941, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Harold W. McCauley; Illust : Jay Jackson

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 15. “A financier wants to foreclose on the property of a dead scientist’s daughter because it is rich in mineral deposits. The scientist was experimenting with speech in animals, however. and left a race horse which talks and which likes alcohol. Since it is hungover, the horse must use its power of speech to win the mortgage money in a big race.”

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=32126

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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.”

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=37013

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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#124 House of Living Music, The

OPUS: #124
Title: The House of Living Music
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1938
Type: short story
“A tragic weird-scientific tale about a composer who could re-create all visible things in sound”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 31, no. 1, January 1938, (Jan 1938, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v31n01_1938-01_sas

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OPUS#120 Holmes' Folly

OPUS: #120
Title: Holmes’ Folly
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1937
Type: short story
“The Power and the Glory Were His for the Taking, But a Strange Visitor Changed His Plans!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 10, no. 2, October 1937, (Oct 1937, ed. Mort Weisinger, $0.15, 132pp, magazine), pp. 59-63. Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Wesso

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1937oct-00059

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OPUS#093 His Sworn Duty

OPUS: #093
Title: His Sworn Duty
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: short story
Publication:

  • The Phantom Detective [v15 #3, July 1936] (10¢, pulp), pp. 97-100.