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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

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