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OPUS#087 Beasts That Once Were Men

OPUS: #087
Title: Beasts That Once Were Men
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: short story
“The Evidence Seemed Plain: Dr Robine’s Experiments Had Wrought a horrible Change, Transforming Men to Monsters!”
Publication:

  • Thrilling Mystery [v3 #1, May 1936] (10¢, 132pp, pulp), pp. 47-55.
  • 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
  • Thrilling Mystery, May 1936, (Apr 2010, ed. John P. Gunnison, publ. Adventure House, 978-1-59798-294-8, $14.95, 128pp, tp, anth)
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OPUS#074 Murder at Weed Key

OPUS: #074
Title: Murder at Weed Key
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: novella
Publication:

  • Thrilling Detective [v14 #3, May 1935] ed. Harvey Burns (Standard Magazines, Inc., 10¢, 128pp, pulp), pp. 12-40.
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OPUS#071 Truth Gas, The

Title: The Truth Gas
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story
“Honesty is the best policy.”
That is a sentence which everyone is familiar with. Little children are taught it by their parents and it is strongly advocated in every school and college. Among other things, it means that we should never tell a falsehood.
Then there are such words as “tact” and “discretion.” They signify what is fit, proper, and prudently wise. The question is, can you always tell the truth and be tactful and discreet at the same time?
This little tale draws a parallel to the author’s “The Man With X-Ray Eyes,” which we printed over a year ago, and will prove just as intriguing and original, though the development of the present story will amuse you.
Edmond Hamilton is one of the old stand-bys of science-fiction and is well up to standard here.
Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 6, no. 9, February 1935, (Feb 1935, ed. Hugo Gernsback, $0.25, 128pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Paul

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
  • Drugs and death ; resarch issues, no. 9, Nov. 1974, p. 15.
    Descriptor: Drugs as mind-controllers
    Annotation: A scientist who believes that all sin and crime stem from deceptiveness perfects and releases into the atmosphere a drug that “causes a short-circuit between the brain’s thought-centers and its motor-centers of speech” so that lying becomes impossible. The resulting compulsive honesty leads to impossible social situations as the whole veneer of tact and diplomacy vanishes; it becomes necessary to devise and release an antidote.

ebook: http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2611

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OPUS#066 Thundering Worlds

OPUS: #066
Title: Thundering Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1934
Type: novelette

“An Odyssey of interplanetary space”–TOC
“A colossal thrill-tale of the distant future, when our Earth and the order planets leave the dying sun on a stupendous voyage to distant stars in search of light and heat”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 23, no. 3, March 1934, (Mar 1934, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Hammond
  • 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
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

ebook: http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/hamilton-thundering-worlds.html
ebook: http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2013/06/thundering-worlds-1934-by-edmo.html
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v23n03_1934-03_sas

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OPUS#050 Terror Planet, The

OPUS: #050
Title: The Terror Planet
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette
“The brain-men of Uranus – the amazing thought-tubes of the Brants – a story of red battle on another planet.”
“The brain-men of Uranus – the thought-tubes of the Brants – a thrilling interplanetary tale by the author of “Crashing Suns”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 19, no. 5, May 1932, (May 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Nelson

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v19n05_1932-05_LPM-URF-AT-SAS

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OPUS#040 Ten Million Years Ahead

OPUS: #040
Title: Ten Million Years Ahead
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“A startling story of what this world will be like ten million years from now, when plants rule instead of men”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 17, no. 3, April/May 1931, (Apr 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, #v17 #3, $0.25, 144pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTales19310405ATLPM

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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