OPUS: #080
Title: The Ramrod Key Killings
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: short story
Publication:
- Popular Detective [v6 #1, February 1936] (15¢, pulp), pp. 65-74.
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OPUS#079 Great Brain of Kaldar, The [SM#3]
OPUS: #079
Title: The Great Brain of Kaldar
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: novelette
Series: Stuart Merick (SM)
Series number: #3
“A superb tale of a vampiric monstrosity that fed on the brains of an entire race”–TOC
“A superb tale of distant Kaldar, world of the great star Antares”
Publications:
- Weird Tales, Vol. 26, no. 6, December 1935, (Dec 1935, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay
- Weird Tales (Canada), December 1935
- Pulp Vault, No. 6 (November 1989, ed. Doug Ellis, publ. Tattered Pages Press, $6.00) Cover: Frank Hamilton
- TO THE STARS-& BEYOND, [1989] *Not yet published
- Kaldar: World of Antares, (Nov 1998, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-01-4, $55.00, 219pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v26n06_1935-12_sas_-783-784_ifcibc
OPUS#078 Six Sleepers, The
OPUS: #078
Title: The Six Sleepers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: novelette
Variant title: Tiger Girl
“A gripping tale of super-civilization of the distant future”–TOC
“A fascinating story about six fighting-men, each from a different century who slept through the ages, to awaken at last amid the ruins of a super-civilization of hte future”
Publications:
- Weird Tales, Vol. 26, no. 4, October 1935, (Oct 1935, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Napoli
- Weird Tales (Canada), October 1935
- Tiger Girl, (1945, ed. Edmond Hamilton, E. Hoffmann Price, publ. Utopian Publications, 1/-, 36pp, ph, anth)
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v26n04_1935-10
OPUS#077 Cosmic Pantograph, The
Title: The Cosmic Pantograph
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story
“In our March, 1935 issue we published a short story by this favorite author, entitled “The Eternal Cycle.” This tale received much higher acclaim than many of our novels and has been accepted by our readers as a short science-fiction classic.
We do not hesitate to say that you will find the present yarn of at least equal merit to “The Eternal Cycle.” It also presents some brand-new conceptions never before hinted at in science-fiction. And we all know how rare stories like that are.
Though Edmond Hamilton goes, at times (as he does in this story), into the very heights of fantasy, his work at no time becomes illogical or unconvincing. He makes you believe what he is telling you. tearing down all the barriers of conventions and routine, but always making things real and lifelike.
A few minutes from now you will be entering upon a new train of thought, inspiring, enthralling, fantastic.”
“Must man die, as Doctor Robine believers, with his own universe.”
Publications:
- Wonder Stories, Vol. 7, no. 5, October 1935, (Oct 1935, ed. Hugo Gernsback, $0.25, 128pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Paul, pp. 555-559, 623
- Fantastic Story Magazine, Fall 1951, (Oct 1951, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Best Books, Inc., $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine)
Reviews:
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
OPUS#076 Avenger from Atlantis, The
OPUS: #076
Title: The Avenger from Atlantis
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: novelette
Variant title: The Vengeance of Ulios
“an amazing tale that sweeps across the dusty centuries to our own time”–TOC
“An epic weird tale that begins in ancient Atlantis and sweeps across the centuries through Egypt, Babylon and Rome, up to our own time”
Publications:
- Weird Tales, Vol. 26, no. 1, July 1935, (Jul 1935, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Binder
- Weird Tales, (Canada), July 1935
- The Vengeance of Ulios, The Magic of Atlantis, (Nov 1970, ed. Lin Carter, publ. Lancer, #74699, $0.75, 191pp, pb, anth) Cover: Ron Walotsky
- Isaac Asimov’s Magical Worlds of Fantasy # 9: Atlantis, (Jan 1988, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Signet / New American Library, 0-451-15144-5, $3.95, 349pp, pb, anth) Cover: J. K. Potter
Reviews:
- Review by uncredited (1935) in Fantasy Magazine, July 1935
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v26n01_1935-07_ATLPM-Sas
OPUS#075 Accursed Galaxy, The
OPUS: #075
Title: The Accursed Galaxy
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story
“Now at last we know why all the other galaxies are fleeing from ours!”-TOC
“In which we hear a tale of eternal punishment which came from space”
Publications:
- Astounding Stories, Vol. 15, no. 5, July 1935, (Jul 1935, ed. F. Orlin Tremaine, publ. Street & Smith Publications, Inc., $0.20, 164pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; illustrated by Elliot Dold Jr.
- The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
- Before the Golden Age, (1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Robson Books, 0-903895-28-5, £5.95, xix+986pp, hc, anth) Cover: Timothy Jaques
- Before the Golden Age, (Apr 1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Doubleday, 0-385-02419-3, $16.95, xix+986pp, hc, anth) Cover: Tim Lewis
- Before the Golden Age, (May 1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Doubleday / SFBC, #6173, $4.50, xvi+912pp, hc, anth) Cover: Tim Lewis
- Before the Golden Age Volume Three, (1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-862-0, £0.75, 287pp, pb, anth)
- 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)
- Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930’s: Book 3, (Aug 1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q2525, $1.50, 400pp, pb, anth)
- Before the Golden Age, Book 3, (Aug 1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q2525, $1.50, 400pp, pb, anth)
- 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
- Before the Golden Age Volume Three, (1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-862-0, £0.95, 400pp, pb, anth)
- Before the Golden Age, Book 3, (Jun 1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, 0-449-23593-9, $1.95, 400pp, pb, anth)
- Before the Golden Age, (1988, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Black Cat / Macdonald & Co, 0-7481-0196-9, £9.95, 828pp, hc, anth)
- 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 (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
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.
OPUS#073 Carter Makes a Squeal
OPUS: #073
Title: Carter Makes a Squeal
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: vignette
Publication:
- Popular Detective [v3 #1, May 1935] (15¢, 146pp, pulp), p. 35.
OPUS#072 Eternal Cycle, The
Title: The Eternal Cycle
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story
We are almost sorry that author Hamilton did not write this story into a novelette, because the tremendous idea behind it could well support a much longer story.
In this story is propounded a theory so fantastic that you have never heard anything to equal it – but, at the same time, it is not only very logical, but easily understandable. These three qualities are seldom mixed to such a masterful balance as they are in this short story.
Here, indeed, is an excellent example of the type of story we are looking for under our revolutionary policy – so original and utterly different that it will live in your memory much longer than others thirty times its length.
Publications:
- Wonder Stories, Vol. 6, no. 10, March 1935, (Mar 1935, ed. Hugo Gernsback, $0.25, 128pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: SAA???
- Gosh! Wow! (Sense of Wonder) Science Fiction, (Jan 1982, ed. Forrest J. Ackerman, publ. Bantam Books, 0-553-20187-5, $3.50, xxii+561+[2]pp, pb, anth)
Reviews:
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
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.