OPUS#008 Comet Doom, The

OPUS: #008
Title: The Comet Doom
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“For a moment he struggled frantically, then heard a hoarse cry, and wrenched his head up to see a dark shape, speeding across the plateau from the opposite edge. It was Coburn. Twisting in the remorseless grip of the two with whom he battled, he had a flashing glimpse of Coburn racing toward the machine, and then he uttered a cry of agony. From one of the hovering cones above, a shaft of the light-ray had flashed down and it struck Coburn squarely. A moment he was visible, aureoled in a hale of blinding light …”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 2, no. 10, January 1928, (Jan 1928, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Experimenter Publishing Co., $0.25, 96pp, Bedsheet, magazine), pp. 64-100. Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 40, no. 3, December 1965, (Dec 1965, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 164pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Castellon
  • Comets, (1986, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Signet / New American Library, 0-451-14129-6, $3.95, 339pp, pb, anth)
  • 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 (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

OPUS#006 Moon Menace, The

OPUS: #006
Title: The Moon Menace
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“A terrific prospect faced a darkened world, with the moon men its masters from pole to pole”–TOC
“He lifted his hands toward the brilliant orb above. The sun! The blessed sun!”
“Dr. Howard Gilbert had received messages from a source outside Earth, he claimed; but he never appeared at the meeting at which he had promised to prove his contentions. And then the darkness suddenly came …”–Famous Science Fiction, No. 2

「テレヴィの原理を発明した科学者が月との交信をおこない、月に住民がいると発表して、その証拠を示すと約束するが、当日になっても姿をあらわさず、地球上からすべての光がなくなって全世界が闇につつまれる。月の住民が科学者に物資伝送の受信機をつくらせ、大挙して地球侵略を開始したのだった。月の住民は太陽の光が致命的であると記せば、これ以上紹介する必要はないだろう」 — 大瀧啓裕編 『ウィアード』 2 (青心社, 1990) p. 340

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 3, September 1927, (Sep 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • Famous Science Fiction, No. 2, Spring 1967, (Mar 1967, ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes, publ. Health Knowledge, Inc., $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Virgil Finlay
  • 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/WeirdTalesV10N03192709
ebook: https://archive.org/details/FamousScienceFiction02V01n021967Spring

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

OPUS#210 Valley of the Gods, The

OPUS: #210
Title: The Valley of the Gods
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: novelette
“Guarding this fabulous, legendary valley is a sinister night – shrouded place of the dead”–TOC
“Places of death are not feared by an archaeologist – that is, most places!”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 5, May 1946, (May 1946, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 98pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Ronald Clyne; Illust: Dolgov
  • 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: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n05_1946-05

OPUS#003 Metal Giants, The

OPUS: #003
Title: The Metal Giants
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1926
Type: novelette
“Pivoting instantly, the huge wheel rolled with terrific speed and power toward the giant that waited to grapple with it.”
“Huge metal monsters spread terror through the land – the tale of a Frankenstein that turned on its creator”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 6, December 1926, (Dec 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: Joseph Doolin; Illust: Doolin
  • The Metal Giants, (1932, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Swanson Book Co., #1, 40pp, ph)
  • The Gernsback Awards Volume 1, 1926, (1982, ed. Forrest J. Ackerman, publ. Triton Books, 0-943958-01-6, $14.95, v+309pp, hc, anth) Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • 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/WeirdTalesV08N06192612