Category Archives: short story (4-20 pages)

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OPUS#180 Wacky World

OPUS: #180
Title: Wacky World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: short story
“If ever there was a more cockeyed world than Mars, these two explorers didn’t wat to see it!”-TOC
“Lester and Hoskins crossed the void and landed on the bleak and forbidding surface of the plenet Mars. But they found no welcome; rather, and incredibly and nightmarish population bent only upon – revenge!”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, no. 3, March 1942, (Mar 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Robert Fuqua; Illust: Rod Ruth
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 30, no. 4, April 1956, (Apr 1956, ed. Howard Browne, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.50, 260pp, Digest, magazine),  pp. 61-75, 83. Cover: Edward Valigursky
  • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, No. 8, Fall 1969, (1969, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 16-31. Cover: Frank R. Paul

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v16n03_1942-03_cape1736_

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OPUS#177 Day of the Micro-Men

OPUS: #177
Title: Day of the Micro-Men
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: short story
Publications:

  • Science Fiction, Vol. 2, no. 6, September 1941, (Sep 1941, ed. Robert W. Lowndes, publ. Columbia Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Doolin or Dolgov???
  • TO THE STARS-& BEYOND!, [1989] *not yet published

“Into the world of the microscopic – thence to the very stars; that was the fate of Gurth, who would sacrifice his all for the freedom of the Micro-Men!”–TOC
“To Gurth, the freedom of his race was the aim of his life – and he faces tortures unbearable to bring the Micro-Men into their own – until he finds the very Earth shrinking beneath him!”

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OPUS#167 Brother to Him, A

Title: A Brother to Him
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: short story
Publication:
“Detective Tom Haney Wages Battle Against a Murdering Rat”–TOC

  • Thrilling Detective [v38 #1, December 1940] (10¢, pulp), pp. 85-89.
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OPUS#162 Night the World Ended, The

OPUS: #162
Title: The Night the World Ended
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: short story
“Voss’ Cyclotron Can Settle Earth’s Fate – But Earth’s Doom Settles the Fate of His Cyclotron!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 17, no. 3, September 1940, (Sep 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 82-86. Cover: E. K. Bergey; Illust: Marchioni

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1940sep-00082

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OPUS#161 Lost Treasure of Mars

OPUS: #161
Title: Lost Treasure of Mars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: short story
“Ages ago the Martians died, but an incredible guardian still protected their greatest treasure.”-TOC
“Garth Crane faced death because of one treasure cache. Was it a good idea to gamble his life on the chance of finding a greater one?”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 14, no. 8, August 1940, (Aug 1940, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 68-81, 131-132. Cover: Julian S. Krupa and Leo Morey; Illust: Julian S. Krupa
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 43, no. 4, September 1969, (Sep 1969, ed. Ted White, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 148pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 84-103. Illust: Julian S. Krupa

ebook: http://gotomars.free.fr/Lost%20Treasure%20of%20Mars.pdf
ebook: https://archive.org/details/LostTreasureOfMars
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v14n08_1940-08.Ziff-DavisCape1736

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OPUS#160 Isle of Changing Life, The

OPUS: #160
Title: The Isle of Changing Life
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: short story
“Evolution suddenly chooses a path in reverse-and man descends the ladder of civilization!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 16, no. 3, June 1940, (Jun 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: MCH
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OPUS#158 World Without Sex

OPUS: #158
Title: World Without Sex
Author: Robert O. Wentworth (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1940
Type: short story
“Many a person has spoken in jest of the war between the sexes. Thurber has produced some of his funniest cartoons on that subject: the inability of the male to comprehend the female and vice versa. Nobody can fail to notice the means by which each sex plots to ensnare the other; and intrigue which extends throughout every medium – dress, drama, conduct, arts, etc. There have been cultures in various places – semi-primitives in isolated lands still testify – where there exists an actual hostility between the sexes, where for instance women maintain secret codes and languages, live separately from the community of men. To this day, modern American males maintain lodges from whose portals women are barred and whose affairs are conducted which codes and ceremonies no woman may hope to learn. There is therefore nothing at all impossible about Edmond Hamilton’s startling story of a period twenty thousand years from now. Nothing impossible, we repeat, but we certainly hope that it will always remain at least improbable.”

Publication:

  • Marvel Tales [v2 #1, May 1940] (15¢, 116pp, pulp, cover by ?)
  • Sensuous Science Fiction from the Weird and Spicy Pulps, (Dec 1984, ed. Sheldon Jaffery, publ. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 0-87972-306-8, $8.95, 164pp, tp, anth)
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OPUS#153 Interplanetary Graveyard

OPUS: #153
Title: Interplanetary Graveyard
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: short story
“Mark Raymond weeps? as he approaches the grave of Ardra, taken by a strange malady while he was away as Jupitar — but terror strikes him as he hinds her body missing and strange footprints leading the distant!”–TOC
“A great sorrow engulfs Mark Raymond as he returns to Earth from a four – month trip to Jupitar – for he learns that his Ardra had died of a strange malady. But this sorrow turns to object horror when he finds her grave empty and desecrated by crude footprints!”

Publications:

  • Future Fiction, Vol. 1, no. 2, March 1940, (Mar 1940, ed. Charles D. Hornig, publ. Double Action Magazines, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: Scott; Illust: Lindsay Robert Streeter
  • TO THE STARS-& BEYOND, [1989] *Not Yet Published
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OPUS#149 Dweller in the Darkness

OPUS: #149
Title: Dweller in the Darkness
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: short story

“A public enemy gains the advantage of complete invisibility – only to find it the supreme curse!”–TOC
“Public Enemy Number One Forces Dr. Geary to give him the secret of invisibility, so that he could better prey upon his victims – but he does not suspect the awful horror that accompanies the experiment!”

Publications:

  • Science Fiction, Vol. 1, no. 4, October 1939, (Oct 1939, ed. Charles D. Hornig, publ. Blue Ribbon Magazines, $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Schomburg
  • Science Fiction (UK), October 1939

ebook: https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionv01n04193910/page/n55/mode/2up

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OPUS#147 Debtor at Eight

OPUS: #147
Title: Debtor at Eight
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: short story or vignette
“There’s a time and place for everything, even murder, but eight o’clock in a modern study, isn’t it!”
Publication:

  • Detective Short Stories [v2 #4, September 1939] (Manvis Publications, Inc., 10¢, 116pp, pulp), pp. 68-70?.