Category Archives: Weird Tales (WT)

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OPUS#057 Star-Roamers, The

OPUS: #057
Title: The Star-Roamers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette

“An interplanetary story that will make your pulse beat faster, by the author of “Crashing Suns”–TOC
“An interplanetary story of many thrills – a battle of leaping flame on the worlds of Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor in space”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 21, no. 4, April 1933, (Apr 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Wilcox

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v21n04_1933-04

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OPUS#055 Snake-Man

OPUS: #055
Title: Snake-man
Author: Hugh Davidson (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1933
Type: short story

“A fearful mystery – a gigantic snake that crawled out of the swamp at night”–TOC
“The story of fearful mystery, of a gigantic snake that crawled out of the swamp at night, and an interpid snake-collector who went in after it.”

Publication:

  • Weird Tales [v21 # 1, January 1933] (25¢, 144pp+, pulp, cover by J. Allen St. John), pp. 41-50. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • 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.

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v21n01_1933-01_LPM-URF-AT-SAS

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OPUS#054 Man Who Conquered Age, The

OPUS: #054
Title: The Man Who Conquered Age
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette
“A weird -scientific tale of a scientist who ran amok in New York’s streets” — TOC
“A gripping weird-scientific tale – a great scientist, drunk with power, runs amuck in the streets of New York.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 20, no. 6, December 1932, (Dec 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Wilcox

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v20n06_1932-12_AT-sas

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OPUS#053 Vampire Village

OPUS: #053
Title: Vampire Village
Author: Hugh Davidson (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1932
Type: short story
“A strange story of the ghoul-haunted village of Wieslant, and the eery adventure of two American travelers.”
“A blood-chilling story of the ghoul-haunted village of Wieslant and the eery adventure of two Americans”–TOC

Publication:

  • Weird Tales [v20 # 5, November 1932] (25¢, 144pp+, pulp, cover by J. Allen St. John), pp. 669-677. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • Weird Vampire Tales, (Aug 1992, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Gramercy Books, 0-517-06018-3, $9.95, 442pp, hc, anth) Cover: Jim Campbell.
  • 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.

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v20n05_1932-11_sas

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OPUS#051 Dogs of Doctor Dwann, The

OPUS: #051
Title: The Dogs of Doctor Dwann
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette

“A blood-chilling story of weird surgery and the things that ran in the night and howled through the Adirondack woods”–TOC
“An eery, blood-chilling story of weird surgery and the things that ran in the night and howled through the forest in the Adirondack hills”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 20, no. 4, October 1932, (Oct 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Nelson
  • Startling Mystery Stories. Vol. 3, no. 2=No. 14, Winter 1969
  • Satan’s Pets, (1972, ed. Vic Ghidalia, publ. Manor Books, #478, $0.75, 224pp, pb, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV20N04193210/

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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#049 Earth-Brain, The

OPUS: #049
Title: The Earth-Brain
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette
“A weird-scientific story by a master of this type of fiction. about the vast creature on whose body we live”–TOC
“A thrilling story by a master of science-fiction, about the vast creature on whose body we live”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 19, no. 4, April 1932, (Apr 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Napoli
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • 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)
  • Acolytes of Cthulhu, (Apr 2001, ed. Robert M. Price, publ. Fedogan & Bremer, 1-878252-47-X, $32.00, xv+390pp, hc, anth) Cover: Gahan Wilson

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV19N04193204Ibc

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OPUS#044 Creatures of the Comet

OPUS: #044
Title: Creatures of the Comet
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“An utterly strange and blood-curdling tale about a weird world in the heart of a comet, and fearful adventures thereon”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 18, no. 5, December 1931, (Dec 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Doolin

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v18n05_1931-12_sas

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OPUS#043 Shot from Saturn, The

OPUS: #043
Title: The Shot From Saturn
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“A tale replete with thrills and surprizes, about an attempted invasion of the earth by the planet Saturn”–TOC
“A startling weird tale about an attempted invasion of Earth by the planet Saturn.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 18, no. 3, October 1931, (Oct 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Doolin

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV18N03193110

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OPUS#041 Earth-Owners, The

OPUS: #041
Title: The Earth-Owners
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: short story
“A weird-scientific story of beings from outside, who fought for the ownership of our world”–TOC
“A strange story of beings from outside, the fought for the ownership of our world”

「宇宙から雲状の生命体が飛来し、アメリカを襲う。雲状の生命体は人間のエネルギーを吸いとってしまう。チャールズ・フォートの本を読んだランダムは、彼らこそ太古における地球上の生命体の創造主であって、人類も彼らの家畜にすぎない、彼らはふたたび地球の所有物として君臨しにきたのだと信じる。人類が絶体絶命の危機に追いこまれたとき、天よりまた別の発光体が現れて雲状の生命体を撃退した。それを見ていたランダムは、発光体のほうこそ地球の真の所有者であったのだと悟る – おそらくハミルトンがチャールズ・フォートの本を読んで一気呵成に書きあげた作品だろう」 — 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. 113
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 18, no. 1, August 1931, (Aug 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf or Wesso

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v18n01_1931-08.Popular_Fiction_ATLPM-Sas