OPUS: #031
Title: Pigmy Island
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
“There was a sickening smell of burnt hair and flesh.”
“A powerful story of tiny men and giant rats and snakes – a vivid tale of super-science”–TOC

Publications:

• Weird Tales, Vol. 16, no. 2, August 1930, (Aug 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: Rankin
• Man From U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, Vol. 4, no. 3, October 1967

• Switch on the Light, (Apr 1931, ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, publ. Selwyn and Blount (UK), 2/-, 256pp, hc, anth)

• Not at Night Omnibus, (Apr 1937, ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, publ. Selwyn and Blount (UK), 2/6, 511pp, hc, anth)

• Not at Night, (1960, ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, publ. Arrow (UK), #586, 2/6, 192pp, pb, anth)

• The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

• Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v16n02_1930-08_sas

OPUS: #011
Title: The Polar Doom
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1928
Type: novelette
“From under the polar ice a horror out of long-dead ages is loosed upon the world to spread terror and destruction”–TOC
“The red ray flashed after him, and in moment he, too, lay a distorted thing of cloth and flesh upon the ground.”
「北極点に近い島で太古の遺跡が発見されるという冒頭は、ラヴクラフトの『狂気の山脈にて』の北極版を予想させるが、さすがはハミルトンで、発掘のあとには謎の飛行物質があらわれて、地球の文明があっけなく破壊される描写がつづく。人類誕生よりもまえに地球を支配していた蟇じみた種族が、極寒に耐えきれず仮死の状態を保っていたところ、発掘により温暖化装置が始動して仮死状態から目覚め、ふたたび地球の支配に乗り出したののである。この装置のスイッチを切ることで、蟇じみた種族は絶滅させられる」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　4　（青心社, 1990） p. 333

Publications:

• Weird Tales, Vol. 12, no. 5, November 1928, (Nov 1928, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin

• The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v12n05_1928-11_sas