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OPUS#011 Polar Doom, The

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

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OPUS#007 Time-Raider, The

OPUS: #007
Title: The Time-Raider
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novel
Magazine Appearances:
The Time-Raider (Part 1 of 4) (1927) – Edmond Hamilton
The Time-Raider (Part 2 of 4) (1927) – Edmond Hamilton
The Time-Raider (Part 3 of 4) (1927) – Edmond Hamilton
The Time-Raider (Part 4 of 4) (1928) – Edmond Hamilton

“A four-part serial story about an entity from far in the future, that sweeps back through time for its victims”–TOC of part1
“He dangled helplessly in the thing’s embrace.”–part 1
“A four-part serial story about an entity that sweeps back through time to seize its victims”–TOC of part 2
“Held in its shapeless form were men, who hung helpless in its grasp.”–part 2
“A four-part serial story about an entity that sweeps back through time to seize its victims”–TOC of part 3
“While exploring the ruins of Angkor, Professor Cannell is captured by the Time-Raider, a creature from fifteen thousand years in the future, which sweeps back through time for its victims to build up an army of warriors with which the Kanlars can overwhelm the parent city of Kom. Cannell’s friends, Wheeler and Lantin, build a time-car and pursue the Raider into the future, but are captured by the Kanlars and held prisoner with the teeming hordes of warriors in the City of the Pit. The two friends, with Denham (an English soldier of the time of George III), D’Alord (a French musketeer), Fabrius (a Roman legionary) and Ixtil (an Aztec cacique), plan to escape up the spiral stairway and flee to the city of Kom in Lantin’s time-car, which is hidden near the city of the Kanlars.”–part 3
“Help in its shapeless form were men, who hung helpless in its grasp.” – part 4
“A four-part serial about an entity that sweeps back through time to seize its victims.” – TOC of part 4

「一万五千年後の世界から訪れた者に友人をさらわれたため、若い科学者ふたりが数週間で時間移動機をつくりあげ、友人の救出にむかうという本篇は、筋立てにこそ新味はないが、邪悪な未来人が数において優勢な敵をほろばすため、過去から勇者を狩り集めて軍隊を組織するというアイデアは秀抜である。未来社会の科学力の描写等にも見るべきものがある。この時期におけるハミルトンの到達点といってさしつかえない」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　3　（青心社, 1990） p. 327
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 4, October 1927, (Oct 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 5, November 1927, (Nov 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 6, December 1927, (Dec 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: none
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 11, no. 1, January 1928, (Jan 1928, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; illust: none
  • 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

Reviews:

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

part 1: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV10N04192710
part 2: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v10n05_1927-11_AT-sas
part 3: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV10N06192712
part 4: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV11N01192801sasIfcIbc

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OPUS#008 Comet Doom, The

OPUS: #008
Title: The Comet Doom
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“For a moment he struggled frantically, then heard a hoarse cry, and wrenched his head up to see a dark shape, speeding across the plateau from the opposite edge. It was Coburn. Twisting in the remorseless grip of the two with whom he battled, he had a flashing glimpse of Coburn racing toward the machine, and then he uttered a cry of agony. From one of the hovering cones above, a shaft of the light-ray had flashed down and it struck Coburn squarely. A moment he was visible, aureoled in a hale of blinding light …”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 2, no. 10, January 1928, (Jan 1928, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Experimenter Publishing Co., $0.25, 96pp, Bedsheet, magazine), pp. 64-100. Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 40, no. 3, December 1965, (Dec 1965, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 164pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Castellon
  • Comets, (1986, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Signet / New American Library, 0-451-14129-6, $3.95, 339pp, pb, anth)
  • 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

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
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OPUS#006 Moon Menace, The

OPUS: #006
Title: The Moon Menace
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“A terrific prospect faced a darkened world, with the moon men its masters from pole to pole”–TOC
“He lifted his hands toward the brilliant orb above. The sun! The blessed sun!”
“Dr. Howard Gilbert had received messages from a source outside Earth, he claimed; but he never appeared at the meeting at which he had promised to prove his contentions. And then the darkness suddenly came …”–Famous Science Fiction, No. 2

「テレヴィの原理を発明した科学者が月との交信をおこない、月に住民がいると発表して、その証拠を示すと約束するが、当日になっても姿をあらわさず、地球上からすべての光がなくなって全世界が闇につつまれる。月の住民が科学者に物資伝送の受信機をつくらせ、大挙して地球侵略を開始したのだった。月の住民は太陽の光が致命的であると記せば、これ以上紹介する必要はないだろう」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　2　（青心社, 1990） p. 340

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 3, September 1927, (Sep 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • Famous Science Fiction, No. 2, Spring 1967, (Mar 1967, ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes, publ. Health Knowledge, Inc., $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Virgil Finlay
  • 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

Reviews:

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

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV10N03192709
ebook: https://archive.org/details/FamousScienceFiction02V01n021967Spring

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OPUS#005 Evolution Island

OPUS: #005
Title: Evolution Island
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“Brilling looses a spawning horror on the world, threatening to wipe out all life, animal and human”–TOC
“Brilling turned suddenly toward the two prisoners. “And for you two, death!” he said.”
「地球内部の放射性物資にふくまれるガーナ―線が進化をうながす原動力だとして、このガーナ―線を島全体に作用させ、すべての生命体の進化させる実験がおこなわれるなか、ガーナ―線をあびて進化した男の野望が描かれる」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　1　（青心社, 1990） p. 338
「これも得意のアイディア・ストーリー。インド諸島のある島で、科学者が生物の進化を促進する光線を発明する。実験の結果、知性を有する植物が出現、彼らは人類を支配しようと企む。科学者は進化の過程を逆にさせる装置をつくりだし、植物は単細胞生物に還ってしまう」 — 那智史郎・宮壁定雄　『ウィアード・テールズ』　別巻　（国書刊行会, 1988）  p. 109
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 9, no. 3, March 1927, (Mar 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Olnick
  • Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors, (Jul 1988, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, publ. Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, 0-517-66123-3, $9.98, xv+655pp, hc, anth) Cover: Hannes Bok
  • 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

Reviews:

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

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV09N03192703

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OPUS#210 Valley of the Gods, The

OPUS: #210
Title: The Valley of the Gods
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: novelette
“Guarding this fabulous, legendary valley is a sinister night – shrouded place of the dead”–TOC
“Places of death are not feared by an archaeologist – that is, most places!”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 5, May 1946, (May 1946, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 98pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Ronald Clyne; Illust: Dolgov
  • Weird Tales of the Supernatural, (1966, ed. Kurt Singer, publ. W. H. Allen, 30/-, 352pp, hc, anth)
  • Supernatural, (1974, Kurt Singer, publ. Eclipse Books, A$1.95, 617pp, pb, omni)
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Weird Tales of the Supernatural (UK), (1975, ed. Kurt Singer, publ. White Lion Publishers, 350pp, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n05_1946-05

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OPUS#003 Metal Giants, The

OPUS: #003
Title: The Metal Giants
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1926
Type: novelette
“Pivoting instantly, the huge wheel rolled with terrific speed and power toward the giant that waited to grapple with it.”
“Huge metal monsters spread terror through the land – the tale of a Frankenstein that turned on its creator”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 6, December 1926, (Dec 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: Joseph Doolin; Illust: Doolin
  • The Metal Giants, (1932, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Swanson Book Co., #1, 40pp, ph)
  • The Gernsback Awards Volume 1, 1926, (1982, ed. Forrest J. Ackerman, publ. Triton Books, 0-943958-01-6, $14.95, v+309pp, hc, anth) Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • 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

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

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N06192612

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OPUS#002 Across Space

OPUS: #002
Title: Across Space
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1926
Type: novella
Across Space (Part 1 of 3) (1926) – Edmond Hamilton
Across Space (Part 2 of 3) (1926) – Edmond Hamilton
Across Space (Part 3 of 3) (1926) – Edmond Hamilton
“A shaft of red light stabs the sky, and Mars hurtles in flaming destruction straight toward Earth”-TOC of part 1
“As I whirled around, my eyes met a sight that froze the words on my lips in sheer surprize and terror.”-part 1
“A three-part weird-scientific serial – strange beings in Rano Kao volcano pull the planet Mars from its orbit.”- TOC of part 2
“As I whirled around, my eyes met a sight that froze the words on my lips in sheer, surprize and terror.”-part 2
“A three-part weird-scientific serial – strange beings under Easter Island pull the planet Mars from its orbit”-TOC of part 3
“A great red ray of light stabs across space toward Mars from the crater of Rano Kao volcano on Easter Island, carrying with it the magnetic force of Earth’s northern magnetic pole against the southern magnetic pole of Mars. The red planet is pulled from its orbit and hurtles straight toward Earth.
Dr. Whitley and Professor Allan try to save the Earth from destruction, but are captured by the bat-winged men from Mars who live in the crater of the extinct volcano, and are carried to their city in the bowels of the Earth. There they learn the details of the Martians’ scheme from Dr. Holland, who has been captured years before. The captives plan to escape from their guards (strange, mechanically constructed creatures created by the bat-winged Martians), in a desperate attempt to save the Earth. If they fail – and the chances are a million to one against them – in a few days the atmosphere of Mars will touch that of Earth, and the world will be overrun by Martians flying from their planet to Earth, armed with a crumbling ray to destroy humanity.”-part 3

「九月から三カ月にわたって発表された＜＜宇宙を渡って＞＞シリーズは、この若い作家のあらゆる可能性を示すものだった。売り子が新聞を振り上げながら大声をはりあげている。語り手のアランがふと目をやると、その新聞には大きな活字で”世界の終わり”という見出しが出ている。この時から意外な出来事がはじまるのである。アランはすぐ新聞を買い求めて、公式声明を読む。（中略）けれども衝突は起こらないのである。火星は接近しているのではなかった。実は、地球上には、黎明期以来火星から追放され、地下都市で生活している火星人がいたのである。彼らの科学によって、火星は地球に引き寄せられているのだった。この火星人の存在は、私たちにはまったく知られていない。彼らはイースター島の巨石像に似ている。というのは、この巨石像は、火星人が地球の土を踏んでいた時代の名残りだったのである（イースター島にある巨石像の期限に関して、公認の科学が伏せている新事実を明らかにするのだと主張する作家は少なくなく、この種の馬鹿げた説明は今日ひきもきらぬ有様である）」- ジャック・サドゥール著; 鹿島茂,鈴木秀治訳『現代SFの歴史』(早川書房, 1984.12)　p. 117
「最初に掲載されのは「マムルスの邪神」だが、先に売れたのは「宇宙横断」だった。これは人類が誕生するよりも前に地球に植民していた火星人が、いまも地下の洞窟で生きているという話。彼らは地球を乗っとって、火星を地球近くの軌道まで動かす計画に取りかかっていた。この作品にはハミルトンが十代のころから愛読していたマンジー系雑誌の影響がうかがえるが、彼はその後またたくまに、こうした種類のSFの第一人者としての地位を確立していく。」 – 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. 159
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 3, September 1926, (Sep 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: E. M. Stevenson; Illust: Olnick
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 4, October 1926, (Oct 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr.; Illust: None
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 5, November 1926, (Nov 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: E. M. Stevenson; Illust: Olnick
  • 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

Reviews:

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

ebook of part 1: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N03192609
ebook of part 2: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N03192609
ebook of part 3: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N05192611

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OPUS#001 Monster-God of Mamurth, The

Title: The Monster-God of Mamurth
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1926
Type: short story
Note: first submitted as “Beyond the Unseen Wall”. then “The Desert God”
“Creeping horror, weird thrills, uncanny shivers, are in this eery tale of the Desert of Igidi”–TOC
“I had not killed the thing, but had chained it down by the block that held it prisoner.”
「目に見えないサハラの秘密都市を透明蜘蛛が守っている」 – 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. 159
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol.8, no. 2, August 1926, (Aug 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr.; Illust: Olnick
  • Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror, (Aug 1929, ed. T. Everett Harré, publ. The Macaulay Company, $2.50, 461pp, hc, anth)
  • Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror, (1931, 2nd ed. T. Everett Harré, publ. Gold Label, 461pp, anth)
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 26, no. 3, September 1935, (Sep 1935, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror, (1942 or 1945, 3rd ed. T. Everett Harré, publ. Emerson, 461pp, anth)
  • Magazine of Horror, Vol. 3, no. 2=No. 14, Winter 1966/67, (1966, ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes, publ. Health Knowledge, Inc., magazine) Cover: Hubert Carter
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (Jun 1975, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Gregg Press, 0-8398-2304-5, $12.50, ix+256pp, hc, coll)
  • 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
  • Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2001, (2001, ed. John O’Neill, publ. New Epoch Press, $8.00, 240pp, tp, magazine) Cover: Hung Ving Mac
  • Jim Baen’s Universe, October 2007, (Oct 2007, ed. Mike Resnick, Eric Flint, publ. Baen Books, #1932093023, $6.00, ebook, magazine)
  • 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
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

Reviews:

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

ebook: http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/monstergod_hamilton.html
ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N02192608