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OPUS#203 Inn Outside the World, The

OPUS: #203
Title: The Inn Outside the World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
“The aged statesman complained that intolerance, old grudges and ambitious men plague this world eternally”–TOC
“The night over some parts of the world may indeed be a long, long night”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 6, July 1945, (Jul 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Dolgov
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Nov 1949, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, xiv+556pp, hc, anth)
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Aug 1950, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, xiv+556pp, hc, anth)
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (May 1954, ed. Oscar J. Friend, Leo Margulies, publ. Pocket, #1007, $0.25, viii + 263pp, pb, anth) Cover: E. M. Godschalk
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Jul 1954, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Pocket, #1007, $0.25, viii + 263pp, pb, anth) Cover: E. M. Godschalk
  • Most Thrilling Science Fiction, No. 14, Fall 1969
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Science Fact/Fiction, (1974, ed. Edmund J. Farrell, Thomas E. Gage, John Pfordresher, Raymond J. Rodrigues, publ. Scott Foresman and Company, 0-673-03407-0, xv+394pp, tp, anth)
  • Lost Stars 2, (Dec 2004, ed. Jean Marie Stine, publ. Renaissance E Books, 1-58873-546-X, $4.99, 249pp, ebook, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n06_1945-07_sas

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OPUS#202 Deconventionalizers, The

OPUS: #202
Title: The Deconventionalizers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
“Nobody cared anything about public opinion, so -“–TOC
“When people stopped giving a hang about public opinion, they just went ahead and said and did the very strangest things!”

Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 27, no. 2, Summer 1945, (Aug 1945, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Marchioni

ebook: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV27N021945Su

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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#200 Shining Land, The [BC#1]

OPUS: #200
Title: The Shining Land
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
Series: Brian Cullan (BC)
Series number: #1
“There is a strange, inseeable Elysium that exists out in the western sea, home of a great pre-human race!”
“Through the glowing, unearthly haze was an island below them – in an ocean that had no islands!”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 5, May 1945, (May 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 98pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 30-41. Cover: Pete Kuhlhoff; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1945may-00030
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n05_1945-05

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OPUS#199 Red Sun of Danger [CF#18]

OPUS: #199
Title: Red Sun of Danger
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1945
Type: novella
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 18
“From the archives of the mighty Ancients, Curt Newton brings back forgotten Denebian science to balk a greed-maddened schemer who seeks to loose unspeakable terror on the Universe!”
Publication:

  • Startling Stories [v12 #1, Spring 1945] (15¢, 116pp, pulp, cover by Earle Bergey), pp. 11-71. Illustrated by Thomas.
  • Danger Planet, (1968, Brett Sterling, publ. Popular Library, #60-2335, $0.60, 128pp, pb) Cover: Frank Frazetta

Awards:
1996 – Red Sun of Danger [vt Danger Planet] Retro Hugo Award, Novel (Nomination)

Book review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p.18. “Even though Captain Future’s own magazine had been dropped from publication, the character proved so popular that other novels were still written about him and appeared from time to time in the pages of Startling Stories. I understand this one was written by Edmond Hamilton, the originator of the series, under this house pseudonym for some unknown reason or other. This novel is typical of its kind, the usual fast-paced wild adventures among the inhabitants of various alien worlds, with a hint of mystery in this one, and even vaguely Lovecraftian overtones with the temporary revival in the final chapter of the Kangas, those mighty beings who once ruled the Universe before the rise of man or even man’s immediate predecessors. Reprinted in 1968 in paperback by Popular Library as Danger Planet. “

ebook: https://archive.org/details/StartlingStoriesV12N01Spring1945

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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#197 Shadow Folk, The

OPUS: #197
Title: The Shadow Folk
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1944
Type: short story
“These high, remote peaks were the last refuge for the strangest rae of humans in all the world”
“A land where we, the normal, are strange and terrible, called fearfully by Them – The Others!” — TOC
Publication History:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 1, September 1944, (Sep 1944, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 6-17. Cover: A. R. Tilburne; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1944sep-00006
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n01_1944-09

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OPUS#196 Free-Lance of Space, The

OPUS: #196
Title: The Free-Lance of Space
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1944
Type: short story
“Only one loyality – to himself! Because of it he died with the way to live again locked in his mind”-TOC
“All that stood between mankind and the loss of a life-saving drug was Rake Allan – who hated humanity”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 18, no. 3, May 1944, (May 1944, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 212pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Malcolm Smith; Illust: Julian S. Krupa
  • Science Fiction Adventures Classics, May 1974, (May 1974, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine), pp. 114-132. Cover: James B. Settles

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v18n03_1944-05.Ziff-Daviscape1736

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OPUS#195 Magic Moon [CF#16]

OPUS: #195
Title: Magic Moon
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1944
Type: novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 16
“A Cruel Plot to Seize the Satellite Styx, Third Moon of Pluto, and Enslave Peaceful Natives, Sends Captain Future and His Loyal Aides Out on the Most Dangerous Adventure of Their Careers!”

Publication:

  • Captain Future [v6 #1, Winter 1944] (15¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Earle K. Bergey), pp. 15-92. Illustrated by Orban.

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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