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OPUS#064 War of the Sexes, The

OPUS: #064
Title: The War of the Sexes
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette
“A tale of 20,000 years in the future – a loveless world in which the Males and Females engaged in a war of extermination against each other”–TOC
“A tale of twenty thousand years in the future – a loveless world in which the Males and the Females are engaged in a war of extermination against each other”
“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; an 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 and 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 with 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.” – Avon
“Love was treason in that astounding future – for women and men had divided into nations of their own – and they were at war! The maidenly charms, the manly virtues – they were but weapons to snare and slay the ones they attracted!” – Avon back cover

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 22, no. 5, November 1933, (Nov 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Wilcox
  • Avon Science Fiction Reader #1, 1951, (Apr 1951, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Avon Novels, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine)

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ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v22n05_1933-11_ELPM-SliV

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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.”

ebook: http://magicmonkeyboy.blogspot.jp/search/label/edmond%20hamilton
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ebook: https://archive.org/details/Startling_Stories_v14n01_1946-Summer

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OPUS#062 Vampire Master, The [DD#1]

OPUS: #062
Title: The Vampire Master
Author: Hugh Davidson (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1933
Type: novella
Series: Dr. John Dale
Series number: #1
“A novel of corpses that would not stay dead, and a gruesome horror in the New York hills”–TOC
“A thrilling novel of corpses that would not stay dead, and a gruesome horror in the hills of New York”

Publication:

  • Weird Tales [v22 # 4, October 1933] (25¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by M. Brundage), pp. 403-423. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • Weird Tales [v22 # 5, November 1933] (25¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by M. Brundage), pp. 551-569. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • Weird Tales [v22 # 6, December 1933] (25¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by M. Brundage), pp. 742-758. Illustrated by None.
  • Weird Tales [v23 # 1, January 1934] (25¢, 144pp+, pulp, cover by M. Brundage), pp. 94-108. 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.

ebook part1: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v22n04_1933-10
ebook part2: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v22n05_1933-11_ELPM-SliV
ebook part3: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v22n06_1933-12_LPM-URF-AT-SAS
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OPUS#060 Horror on the Asteroid, The

OPUS: #060
Title: The Horror on the Asteroid
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette
“An amazing weird-scientific story of a space-ship that was wrecked by meteors.”–TOC
“A story of interplanetary space, and the weird fate that be*** passengers and crew of a space-whip that was wrecked by meteors”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 22, no. 3, September 1933, (Sep 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Wilcox
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • 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)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV22n03193309IfcIbc

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OPUS#059 Fire Creatures, The

OPUS: #059
Title: The Fire Creatures
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette

“A breath-taking story of ** beings in the heart of an active volcano”
“A breath-taking story of a thrilling adventure in the heart of an active volcano”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 22, no. 1, July 1933, (Jul 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Wilcox

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v22n01_1933-07_sas

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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

ebook: http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2611

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OPUS#057 Star-Roamers, The

OPUS: #057
Title: The Star-Roamers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette

“An interplanetary story that will make your pulse beat faster, by the author of “Crashing Suns”–TOC
“An interplanetary story of many thrills – a battle of leaping flame on the worlds of Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor in space”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 21, no. 4, April 1933, (Apr 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Wilcox

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v21n04_1933-04

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OPUS#056 Kaldar, World of Antares [SM#1]

OPUS: #056
Title: Kaldar, World of Antares
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette
“A mighty story of a strange world far removed from Earth”–TOC
“A stupendous novelette of a world far removed from Earth, of the Chan of Kaldar, and the spider-people from beyond the metal mountains”

Publications:

  • The Magic Carpet Magazine, Vol. 3, no. 2, April 1933, (Apr 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: M. Brundage; Illust: Wilcox
  • Swordsmen in the Sky, (1964, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Ace, #F-311, $0.40, 192pp, pb, anth) Cover: Frank Frazetta
  • Kaldar: World of Antares, (Nov 1998, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-01-4, $55.00, iv+219pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom
  • The Magic Carpet Magazine, April 1933, (May 2007, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Girasol Collectables, $25.00, 132pp, Pulp, anth) Cover: M. Brundage
  • The Complete Magic Carpet Magazine, (Mar 2008, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Girasol Collectables, $120.00, 640pp, hc, anth) Cover: Neil Mecham
  • Swordsmen in the Sky, (date unknown, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Ace, #79276, $0.60, 192pp, pb, anth) Cover: Frank Frazetta

ebook: https://books.google.co.jp/books/about/The_Magic_Carpet_Vol_3_No_2_April_1933.html?id=TOYTP_S4DyQC&redir_esc=y

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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.

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v21n01_1933-01_LPM-URF-AT-SAS

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OPUS#054 Man Who Conquered Age, The

OPUS: #054
Title: The Man Who Conquered Age
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette
“A weird -scientific tale of a scientist who ran amok in New York’s streets” — TOC
“A gripping weird-scientific tale – a great scientist, drunk with power, runs amuck in the streets of New York.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 20, no. 6, December 1932, (Dec 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Wilcox

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v20n06_1932-12_AT-sas