Category Archives: novelette (21-50 pages)

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OPUS#223 Twilight of the Gods

OPUS: #223
Title: Twilight of the Gods
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1948
Type: novelette
“Who knows what one has been in previous times and spaces removed from our own?”-TOC
“What dark, devious paths must a man follow to ultimately repossess himself?”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 40, no. 5, July 1948, (Jul 1948, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.20, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 4-24. Cover: Matt Fox; Illust: Humiston
  • 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: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1948jul-00004
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v40n05_1948-07_Darwin-DPP

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OPUS#218 Serpent Princess

OPUS: #218
Title: Serpent Princess
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1948
Type: novelette
“A place dedicated to death is unwholesome for the living until they, too, join the restless legions of the Beyond” – TOC
“A hidden temple full of people dead thousands of years should make an archaeologist’s life – yet it might mean his death!”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 40, no. 2, January 1948, (Jan 1948, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.20, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 6-20. Cover: Boris Dolgov; Illust: Coye
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1948jan-00006
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v40n02_1948-01

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OPUS#207 Forgotten World

OPUS: #207
Title: Forgotten World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: novelette
“Star-sick Laird Carlin is ordered back to Earth for a rest cure – and there on the ancient, ancestral planet, his love for a girl lures him into the toils of a weird conspiracy!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 28, no. 1, Winter 1946, (Feb 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: THM
  • The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction, (1954, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, $3.95, 580pp, hc, anth)
  • Fantastic Story Magazine, Vol. 7, no. 3, Fall 1954, (Oct 1954, ed. Samuel Mines, publ. Best Books, Inc., $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Jack Coggins
  • Race to the Stars, (Oct 1958, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Crest Books / Fawcett Publications, #s245, $0.35, 224pp, pb, anth) Cover: Stanley Meltzoff

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v28n01_1946-01-Winter/page/n11/mode/2up?view=theater

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OPUS#205 Lost Elysium [BC#2]

OPUS: #205
Title: Lost Elysium
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
Series: Brian Cullan (BC)
Series number: #2
“There is a world congruent with Earth but existing on a different plane of vibration, a world of unearthly beauty–and horror!”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 2, November 1945, (Nov 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesVolume38Number03Canadian
ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Weird_Tales_volume_38_number_03_CAN.djvu/6

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OPUS#204 Trouble on Triton

OPUS: #204
Title: Trouble on Triton
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
“Web Carter stages a drama that is not in the script”– TOC
“To save the starving natives of Triton, Web Carter stages a drama that is not in the script!”

Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 12, no. 3, Fall 1945, (Oct 1945, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Marchioni

Book review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 55. “Good old-fashioned space opera by the master practitioner of the genre.”

ebook: https://archive.org/details/StartlingStoriesV12n031945Fall56ufikusDPP

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OPUS#201 Invaders from the Monster World

OPUS: #201
Title: Invaders from the Monster World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
“There was only one thing worse than having monsters in your hair; that was having no some to drink?”
“There was only one thing that could make Jim Pollock face the awful giantas of the monster world – that one thing was … some!”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 19, no. 2, June 1945, (Jun 1945, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 212pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 80-111. Cover: Robert Gibson Jones; ill. by Bob Richmond
  • Thrilling Science Fiction Adventures No. 14, Fall 1969, (1969, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Judith Lawrence

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v19n02_1945-06.Ziff-Daviscape1736

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OPUS#198 Priestess of the Labyrinth

OPUS: #198
Title: Priestess of the Labyrinth
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
“When you hear the blood-chilling bull-bellow you’ll know you’re in the haunt of the Minotaur – from which no man can escape.” — TOC
“The ancient world dreaded the Labyrinth for in it strange magic worked and horror walked curing ways.”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 3, January 1945, (Jan 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 8-26. Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Brundage

 

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n03_1945-01

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OPUS#194 Valley of the Assassins, The

OPUS: #194
Title: The Valley of the Assassins
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1943
Type: novelette
“A valley of dreadful doom, this … where time is as nothing to the fiend whose first murderous crimes were committed centuries ago”–TOC
“The mindless sons of murder are feared for what they are – but more for whom they served!”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 37, no. 2, November 1943, (Nov 1943, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: A. R. Tilburne; Illust: A.R. Tilburne
  • Ghouls and Ghosts, (1972, ed. Kurt Singer, publ. W. H. Allen (UK), 0-491-00339-0, 320pp, hc, anth)
  • Shriek, (1974, Kurt Singer, publ. Eclipse Books (Australia), A$1.95, 607pp, pb, omni)
  • Fear! Fear! Fear!, (1980, ed. Helen Hoke, publ. Franklin Watts, 0-531-04255-3, 144pp, hc, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v37n02_1943-11_sas

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OPUS#189 World With a Thousand Moons, The

OPUS: #189
Title: The World with a Thousand Moons
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novelette
“There was terrible danger among the moons circling this world, but even greater menace on its surface.”-TOC
“Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, no. 12, December 1942, (Dec 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Ned Hadley
  • The World with a Thousand Moons, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Wildside Press, 978-1-4344-0971-3, $3.99, 56pp, tp)
    The World with a Thousand Moons, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #32317, ebook
  • TO THE STARS-& BEYOND, [1989] *Not Yet Published

ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone3231732317.html
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32317
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v16n12_1942-12.Ziff-Daviscape1736
ebook: https://scifistories.com/s/540/the-world-with-a-thousand-moons

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OPUS#178 Dreamer’s Worlds

OPUS: #178
Title: Dreamer’s Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novelette
“Swift Fantasy Novelet of a Dreamer and His Dream”
“Surely the world of Thar – its strange cities and enormous mountains, its turquoise seas, twin moons and crimson and crimson sun – is nothing but a dream? And yet…”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 36, no. 2, November 1941, (Nov 1941, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hannes Bok; Illust: Dolgov
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)

ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_36/Issue_2/Dreamer%27s_Worlds
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v36n02_1941-11