Category Archives: Weird Tales (WT)

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OPUS#004 Atomic Conquerors, The

OPUS: #004
Title: The Atomic Conquerors
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“A blinding shaft of blue light stabbed out from the disk’s edge and struck the struggling pair.”
「スコットランドで発見された遺物の碑文から、原子のなかに邪悪な種族の存在することが明らかになったあと、封印が解けたことにより、この種族が地球の征服に乗り出す顛末が語られる。太陽系を原子構造と類似するものと見て、原子のなかにひとつの宇宙を見いだす類推の美学は、本篇において太陽系をひとつの原子とする超越宇宙をもちだすにいたった。本篇で注目すべきは、ダーレスの構築するクトゥルー神話のSF的先駆作品となっていることである」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　1　（青心社, 1990） p. 334
「超宇宙（マクロ・コズミック）の人類出現す！！　ハミルトンが得意としたセンス・オブ・ワンダーに満ちたSFの一篇」 — 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. 107
「月・極小世界・異次元からの侵略に地球をさらしていたが、きっとシュロッセルの書いた「外部からの侵略者」の触発されたのだろう」- 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. 78
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 9, no. 2, February 1927, (Feb 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr.; 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: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v09n02_1927-02

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OPUS#224 Watcher of the Ages, The

OPUS: #224
Title: The Watcher of the Ages
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1948
Type: short story
“Many ahd sought the dead metropolis but all had been defeated by the dark jungle and darker forces within.”
“Seek not the hidden secret, the cold flame that burns forever….”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 40, no. 6, September 1948, (Sep 1948, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.20, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 68-76.  Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Humiston
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1948sep-00068
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v40n06_1948-09

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OPUS#223 Twilight of the Gods

OPUS: #223
Title: Twilight of the Gods
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1948
Type: novelette
“Who knows what one has been in previous times and spaces removed from our own?”-TOC
“What dark, devious paths must a man follow to ultimately repossess himself?”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 40, no. 5, July 1948, (Jul 1948, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.20, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 4-24. Cover: Matt Fox; Illust: Humiston
  • 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: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1948jul-00004
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v40n05_1948-07_Darwin-DPP

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OPUS#220 Might-Have-Been, The

OPUS: #220
Title: The Might-Have-Been
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1948
Type: short story
“Our earth is, after all, only one of the countless possible Earths that might exist!”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 40, no. 3, March 1948, (Mar 1948, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.20, 98pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 4-15. Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Coye

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1948mar-00004
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v40n03_1948-03_Gorgon776

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OPUS#218 Serpent Princess

OPUS: #218
Title: Serpent Princess
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1948
Type: novelette
“A place dedicated to death is unwholesome for the living until they, too, join the restless legions of the Beyond” – TOC
“A hidden temple full of people dead thousands of years should make an archaeologist’s life – yet it might mean his death!”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 40, no. 2, January 1948, (Jan 1948, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.20, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 6-20. Cover: Boris Dolgov; Illust: Coye
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1948jan-00006
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v40n02_1948-01

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OPUS#213 King of Shadows, The

OPUS: #213
Title: The King of Shadows
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1947
Type: short story
“Some say the great rebel against the Gods, the lord of evil whose name is Erlik, is right here on earth” — TOC
“No sword or gun can avail against what lies within these peaks.”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 9, January 1947, (Jan 1947, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 38-49. Cover: A. R. Tilburne; Illust: Tilburne
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1947jan-00038
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n09_1947-01

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OPUS#211 Day of Judgment

OPUS: #211
Title: Day of Judgment
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: short story
“Have you wondered about the future; about what form of life will inherits the Earth?”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 7, September 1946, (Sep 1946, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 20-27. Cover: Pete Kuhlhoff; Illust: Dolgov
  • 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 Last Man on Earth, (Aug 1982, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Fawcett Crest / Ballantine, 0-449-24531-4, $2.95, 352pp, pb, anth) Cover: Wayne Douglas Barlowe
  • 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.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1946sep-00020
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n07_1946-09

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OPUS#205 Lost Elysium [BC#2]

OPUS: #205
Title: Lost Elysium
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
Series: Brian Cullan (BC)
Series number: #2
“There is a world congruent with Earth but existing on a different plane of vibration, a world of unearthly beauty–and horror!”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 2, November 1945, (Nov 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesVolume38Number03Canadian
ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Weird_Tales_volume_38_number_03_CAN.djvu/6

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OPUS#203 Inn Outside the World, The

OPUS: #203
Title: The Inn Outside the World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
“The aged statesman complained that intolerance, old grudges and ambitious men plague this world eternally”–TOC
“The night over some parts of the world may indeed be a long, long night”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 6, July 1945, (Jul 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Dolgov
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Nov 1949, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, xiv+556pp, hc, anth)
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Aug 1950, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, xiv+556pp, hc, anth)
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (May 1954, ed. Oscar J. Friend, Leo Margulies, publ. Pocket, #1007, $0.25, viii + 263pp, pb, anth) Cover: E. M. Godschalk
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Jul 1954, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Pocket, #1007, $0.25, viii + 263pp, pb, anth) Cover: E. M. Godschalk
  • Most Thrilling Science Fiction, No. 14, Fall 1969
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Science Fact/Fiction, (1974, ed. Edmund J. Farrell, Thomas E. Gage, John Pfordresher, Raymond J. Rodrigues, publ. Scott Foresman and Company, 0-673-03407-0, xv+394pp, tp, anth)
  • Lost Stars 2, (Dec 2004, ed. Jean Marie Stine, publ. Renaissance E Books, 1-58873-546-X, $4.99, 249pp, ebook, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n06_1945-07_sas

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OPUS#200 Shining Land, The [BC#1]

OPUS: #200
Title: The Shining Land
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
Series: Brian Cullan (BC)
Series number: #1
“There is a strange, inseeable Elysium that exists out in the western sea, home of a great pre-human race!”
“Through the glowing, unearthly haze was an island below them – in an ocean that had no islands!”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 5, May 1945, (May 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 98pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 30-41. Cover: Pete Kuhlhoff; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1945may-00030
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n05_1945-05