Category Archives: novelette (21-50 pages)

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OPUS#005 Evolution Island

OPUS: #005
Title: Evolution Island
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“Brilling looses a spawning horror on the world, threatening to wipe out all life, animal and human”–TOC
“Brilling turned suddenly toward the two prisoners. “And for you two, death!” he said.”
「地球内部の放射性物資にふくまれるガーナ―線が進化をうながす原動力だとして、このガーナ―線を島全体に作用させ、すべての生命体の進化させる実験がおこなわれるなか、ガーナ―線をあびて進化した男の野望が描かれる」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　1　（青心社, 1990） p. 338
「これも得意のアイディア・ストーリー。インド諸島のある島で、科学者が生物の進化を促進する光線を発明する。実験の結果、知性を有する植物が出現、彼らは人類を支配しようと企む。科学者は進化の過程を逆にさせる装置をつくりだし、植物は単細胞生物に還ってしまう」 — 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. 109
Publications:

Weird Tales, Vol. 9, no. 3, March 1927, (Mar 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Olnick

Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors, (Jul 1988, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, publ. Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, 0-517-66123-3, $9.98, xv+655pp, hc, anth) Cover: Hannes Bok

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/WeirdTalesV09N03192703

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OPUS#143 Armies from the Past [ED#2]

OPUS: #143
Title: Armies from the Past
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: novelette
Series: Eathan Drew (ED)
Series number: #2
“An exciting story of time-travel and a world enslaved!”–TOC
“A weird-scientific tale of adventure, and the clash of armed men – an exciting story of time-travel and a world enslaved – a narrative of our planet two million years hence”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 33, No. 4, April 1939, (Apr 1939, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Weird Tales, $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 61-82. Cover: Virgil Finlay; Illust: Delay
  • Lost Fantasies 6, (1977, ed. Robert Weinberg, publ. Robert Weinberg (Lost Fantasies #6), $5.00, 96pp, tp, anth) Cover: Marcus Boas

ebook: http://www.pulpmags.org/PDFs/WT_1939_04/index.html
ebook: https://archive.org/details/wt_1939_04

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OPUS#028 Sun People, The [IP#6]

OPUS: #028
Title: The Sun People
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series Number: 6
“The great octopus-like Vegan had gripped the square’s edge firmly with his mighty tentacles.”
“A thrilling novelette about a race of people living in the interior of gigantic sun”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no. 5, May 1930, (May 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf
  • The Star-Stealers: The Complete Adventures of The Interstellar Patrol, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-33-2, $40.00, 754pp, hc, coll) Cover: Hugh Rankin

book: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v15n05_1930-05_sas

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OPUS#026 Plant Revolt, The

OPUS: #026
Title: The Plant Revolt
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
“The street was full from end to end with hundreds of slow-crawling plant masses.”
“On a mountain-top was created a horror that set the plant kingdom in wild revolt against man and animals”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no. 4, April 1930, (Apr 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: Rankin
  • The Earth in Peril / Who Speaks of Conquest?, (1957, Lan Wright, Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Ace (Ace Double #D-205), #D-205, $0.35, 158+160pp, pb, omni) Cover: Ed Emshwiller , Stanley Metzoff
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV15N04193004jvhSas

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OPUS#022 Comet-Drivers, The [IP#5]

OPUS: #022
Title: The Comet-Drivers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series Number: 5
“The combat that following was the most horrible I had ever engaged in.”
“From the valid of space it came, a cosmic vampire looting the lives of universes – a weird-scientific novelette”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no.2, February 1930, (Feb 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: Rankin
  • Crashing Suns, (1965, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #F-319, $0.40, 192pp, pb, coll)
  • Crashing Suns, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-1-4014-0319-5, $4.00, ebook, coll)
  • The Star-Stealers: The Complete Adventures of The Interstellar Patrol, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-33-2, $40.00, 754pp, hc, coll) Cover: Hugh Rankin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v15n02_1930-02_sas

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OPUS#021 Life-Masters, The

OPUS: #021
Title: The Life-Masters
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
“A great wave of living protoplasm swept through the streets, licking them clean of life.”
” Great masses of protoplasm formed in the seas and advanced upon the land in a wave of destruction and death.”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no. 1, January 1930, (Jan 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v15n01_1930-01_-ibc_LPM-URF-AT-SAS

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OPUS#122 Child of Atlantis

OPUS: #122
Title: Child of Atlantis
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1937
Type: novelette
“What brooding shape of horror dwels (sic) in the black castle that topped the sinister island?”
“What brooding shape of horror dwelt in the black castle that topped the sinister island on which a young American and his wife were shipwrecked on their honeymoon?”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 30, no. 6, December 1937, (Dec 1937, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 708-725. Cover: Virgil Finlay

ebooks: http://www.pulpmags.org/PDFs/WT_1937_12/index.html
ebooks: https://archive.org/details/wt_1937_12

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OPUS#097 Door into Infinity, The

OPUS: #097
Title: The Door into Infinity
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: novelette
“An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events.”
“An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events” — TOC
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 28, no. 2, August/September 1936, (Sep 1936, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 130-153. Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Napoli
  • The Second Leonaur Book of Supernatural Detectives, (2015, publ. Leonaur)

ebook: http://www.pulpmags.org/weird_tales_page.html
ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone3284732847-8.html
ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_28/Issue_2/The_Door_into_Infinity
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32847
ebook: https://archive.org/details/weird_tales_august-september_1936
ebook: https://scifistories.com/s/405/the-door-into-infinity

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OPUS#048 Three from the Tomb, The

OPUS: #048
Title: The Three From the Tomb
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette

“A dramatic thrill-tale about three millionaires, dead and buried for month, who reappeared among the living”–TOC
“A thrill-tale of surgery – three millionaires, dead and buried who reappear in the world of the living”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 19, no. 2, February 1932, (Feb 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Doolin
  • Startling Mystery Stories, Vol. 2, no. 2=No. 8, Spring 1968, (1968, ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes, publ. Health Knowledge, Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Virgil Finlay

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v19n02_1932-02_sas