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OPUS#070 Murder in the Grave

OPUS: #070
Title: Murder in the Grave
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story

“A grim story of terrible ordeal – a night of terror ten feet below the surface of the ground”
“A grim story of a night of terror, ten feet underground”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 25, no. 2, February 1935, (Feb 1935, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Napoli

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OPUS#069 Masters of the Genes

Title: Master of the Genes
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story
Perhaps the most interesting of the sciences is biology, the study of living things, and genetics, the branch concerning genes and chromosomes, may be called the most fascinating side-line.
We know that all the characteristics of a living thing are transmitted during conception to the offspring. The shape of the nose, the color of the hair, the length of the arms – uncoutable thousands of regulations are governed by the nature of the microscopic genes.
If you do not know much about this subject, Mr. Hamilton’s latest story, which is now before you, will further acquaint you with one of the greatest mysteries of science, will make chills run through you when you contemplate what terrible things can happen when the tiny genes are defected.
Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 6, no. 8, January 1935, (Jan 1935, ed. Hugo Gernsback, $0.25, 128pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • Thrilling Stories(UK). No. 1 (1946)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

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OPUS#065 Man Who Returned, The

OPUS: #065
Title: The Man Who Returned
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1934
Type: short story
“The story of a man who was laid away in the tomb and returned to his friends”–TOC
“The story of a man who was laid away in his coffin, and the unexpected reception he got when he returned to his friends”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 23, no. 2, February 1934, (Feb 1934, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust : Wilcox
  • Weird Tales, (May 1964, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Pyramid Books, #R-1029, $0.50, 155pp, pb, anth) Cover: Virgil Finlay
  • Weird Tales, (Nov 1976, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Neville Spearman (UK), 0-85978-020-1, £3.50, 264pp, hc, anth) Cover: Margaret Brundage
  • 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
  • Weird Tales Vol. 1, (1978, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Sphere, 0-7221-4259-5, £0.85, 238pp, pb, anth)
  • Weird Tales, (Jan 1979, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Jove / HBJ, 0-515-04877-1, $1.50, 155pp, pb, anth) Cover: Virgil Finlay
  • Fear! Fear! Fear!, (1980, ed. Helen Hoke, publ. Franklin Watts, 0-531-04255-3, 144pp, hc, anth)
  • Weird Tales, (Oct 1990, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Xanadu (UK), 1-85480-050-7, £14.99, 236pp, hc, anth) Cover: Harold S. DeLay , Lee Brown Coye
  • Weird Tales, (Nov 1990, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Carroll & Graf, 0-88184-631-7, $21.95, 264pp, hc, anth) Cover: Harold S. DeLay
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

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OPUS#063 Man with X-Ray Eyes, The

Title: The Man with X-Ray Eyes
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Variant Title of: The Man Who Saw Everything (by Edmond Hamilton )
Type: short story
“Endowed with super-vision, reporter David Winn learns the awesome and terrifying secret of seeing too much!”–Startling
Perhaps the facts propounded in the present story are all too true … we know that some of them are. Perhaps it is well that the truth about many matters is kept from the public mind …. while the knowledge of others would definitely aid civilization.
If someone offered you the power of seeing everything – through walls – would you accept? We’ll wager you would. And David Winn accepted. He wanted to see all there was to see. He wanted the world revealed to his eyes. No real harm can come from merely using the sense of sight, you say. But read the story and you may change your opinion.
Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 5, no. 4, November 1933, (Nov 1933, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing, $0.25, 128pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • “Man Who Saw Everything, The”, The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • THE SEX SERUM, Dickinson, Utopian (UK), 1945hamilton-anthology1
  • Startling Stories, Summer 1946, (Jul 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey
  • “Man Who Saw Everything, The”, 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)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
  • Wonder Stories. Vol. 5, no, 4 (11-33) Illust: Winter
  • Startling Stories. Vol. 14, no. 1 (Summer-46), pp. 62-69. illust: Marchioni
  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 56. “One of the old master’s excellent psychological studies, about what it would be like for an ordinary man to become suddenly possessed of an extraordinary power. First appeared in Wonder Stories, November, 1933.”

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OPUS#058 Island of Unreason, The

Title: The Island of Unreason
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Storylen: short story
“Reprinted from Wonder Stories, May, 1933, this very readable story tells of the island where misfits and incorrigibles are isolated from civilization in the future” – Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 54
Reason, we hope, is being made more and more the guide for our actions. What must this tendency ultimately lead to? Will emotion be stamped out of our lives entirely, and the race become merely adding machines? Mr. Hamilton carries us into the future to visualize an intermediate era, when emotion is despised but not yet stamped out. His story of that time is not only amusing and interesting, but instructive of the changes that the race must pass through to escape from our emotion-ridden ancestors to a new day when we shall be all intellectual giants.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2 First struggles
Chapter 3 A World of Turmoil
Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 4, no. 12, May 1933, (May 1933, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing, $0.25, 96pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Paul
  • Startling Stories, Vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 1945, (Apr 1945, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: WIN???
  • Murder in the Clinic, (1946, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Utopian Publications, #7, 1/-, 36pp, ph, coll)
  • The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 1 1926-1935, (1974, ed. Michael Ashley, publ. NEL, 0-450-02182-3, £2.95, 239pp, hc, anth)
  • The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 1 1926-1935, (1976, ed. Michael Ashley, publ. Henry Regnery, 0-8092-8001-9, $4.95, 239pp, tp, anth)
  • The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 1 1926-1935, (1976, ed. Michael Ashley, publ. Henry Regnery, 0-8092-8003-5, $9.95, 239pp, hc, anth)
  • The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 1. 1926-1935, (Mar 1977, ed. Michael Ashley, publ. NEL, 0-450-02484-9, £1.50, 239pp, pb, anth) Cover: Terry Griffiths
  • 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
  • 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

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OPUS#055 Snake-Man

OPUS: #055
Title: Snake-man
Author: Hugh Davidson (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1933
Type: short story

“A fearful mystery – a gigantic snake that crawled out of the swamp at night”–TOC
“The story of fearful mystery, of a gigantic snake that crawled out of the swamp at night, and an interpid snake-collector who went in after it.”

Publication:

  • Weird Tales [v21 # 1, January 1933] (25¢, 144pp+, pulp, cover by J. Allen St. John), pp. 41-50. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Terror, (Aug 2000, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-06-5, $32.00, xii+345pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom.

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OPUS#053 Vampire Village

OPUS: #053
Title: Vampire Village
Author: Hugh Davidson (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1932
Type: short story
“A strange story of the ghoul-haunted village of Wieslant, and the eery adventure of two American travelers.”
“A blood-chilling story of the ghoul-haunted village of Wieslant and the eery adventure of two Americans”–TOC

Publication:

  • Weird Tales [v20 # 5, November 1932] (25¢, 144pp+, pulp, cover by J. Allen St. John), pp. 669-677. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • Weird Vampire Tales, (Aug 1992, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Gramercy Books, 0-517-06018-3, $9.95, 442pp, hc, anth) Cover: Jim Campbell.
  • The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Terror, (Aug 2000, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-06-5, $32.00, xii+345pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom.

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OPUS#046 Dead Legs

OPUS: #046
Title: Dead Legs
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: short story
“Dall, the gangster, could not know that “Dead Legs” was a prophecy of doom.”

Publications:

  • Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, Vol. 1, no. 3, January 1932, (Jan 1932, ed. Harry Bates, publ. The Clayton Magazines, Inc., $0.25, 148pp, pulp, magazine), pp. 117-128, 50 Cover: H. W. Wesso
  • Weird Terror Tales. Vol. 1, no. 1, Winter 1969/1970, (publ. Health Knowledge)
  • Strange Tales, (1976, ed. William H. Desmond, Diane Desmond, publ. MA: Odyssey Publications, #OP 6, $4.50, 128pp, tp, anth)
  • The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Terror, (Aug 2000, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-06-5, $32.00, xii+345pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom

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OPUS#041 Earth-Owners, The

OPUS: #041
Title: The Earth-Owners
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: short story
“A weird-scientific story of beings from outside, who fought for the ownership of our world”–TOC
“A strange story of beings from outside, the fought for the ownership of our world”

「宇宙から雲状の生命体が飛来し、アメリカを襲う。雲状の生命体は人間のエネルギーを吸いとってしまう。チャールズ・フォートの本を読んだランダムは、彼らこそ太古における地球上の生命体の創造主であって、人類も彼らの家畜にすぎない、彼らはふたたび地球の所有物として君臨しにきたのだと信じる。人類が絶体絶命の危機に追いこまれたとき、天よりまた別の発光体が現れて雲状の生命体を撃退した。それを見ていたランダムは、発光体のほうこそ地球の真の所有者であったのだと悟る – おそらくハミルトンがチャールズ・フォートの本を読んで一気呵成に書きあげた作品だろう」 — 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. 113
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 18, no. 1, August 1931, (Aug 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf or Wesso

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OPUS#038 Man Who Evolved, The

Title: The Man Who Evolved
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: SHORTFICTION
Storylen: short story
“It was a great brain. It lay in the chambers, its surface ridged and wrinkled by innumerable fine convoluions.” Paul pp. 1266-1277

Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 2, no. 11, April 1931, (Apr 1931, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • Startling Stories, Vol. 4, no. 3, November 1940, (Nov 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: E. K. Bergey; Illustrated by Wesso
  • From Off This World, (1949, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, $2.95, 430pp, hc, anth) Cover: Virgil Finlay
  • 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 One, (1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-803-5, £0.50, v+223pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, Book 1, (Apr 1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q2410, $1.50, 380pp, 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)
  • 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, Book 1, (1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, 0-449-22913-0, $1.95, 380pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, Volume One, (1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-803-5, £0.95, 380pp, 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 Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, (Aug 2010, ed. Rob Latham, Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Arthur B. Evans, Carol McGuirk, publ. Wesleyan University Press, 978-0-8195-6954-7, $85.00, 688pp, hc, anth)
  • The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, (Aug 2010, ed. Rob Latham, Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Arthur B. Evans, Carol McGuirk, publ. Wesleyan University Press, 978-0-8195-6955-4, $39.95, xviii+767pp, tp, anth) Cover: Georges Méliès
  • The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, (Aug 2010, ed. Rob Latham, Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Arthur B. Evans, Carol McGuirk, publ. Wesleyan University Press, 978-0-8195-6954-7, $85.00, 688pp, 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
  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 47. “Hall of Fame classic story of the ironic ending to a scientist’s intense quest for the ultimate goal to human evolution, first appeared in Wonder Stories, April, 1931”

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