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OPUS#005 Evolution Island

OPUS: #005
Title: Evolution Island
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“Brilling looses a spawning horror on the world, threatening to wipe out all life, animal and human”–TOC
“Brilling turned suddenly toward the two prisoners. “And for you two, death!” he said.”
「地球内部の放射性物資にふくまれるガーナ―線が進化をうながす原動力だとして、このガーナ―線を島全体に作用させ、すべての生命体の進化させる実験がおこなわれるなか、ガーナ―線をあびて進化した男の野望が描かれる」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　1　（青心社, 1990） p. 338
「これも得意のアイディア・ストーリー。インド諸島のある島で、科学者が生物の進化を促進する光線を発明する。実験の結果、知性を有する植物が出現、彼らは人類を支配しようと企む。科学者は進化の過程を逆にさせる装置をつくりだし、植物は単細胞生物に還ってしまう」 — 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. 109
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 9, no. 3, March 1927, (Mar 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Olnick
  • Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors, (Jul 1988, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, publ. Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, 0-517-66123-3, $9.98, xv+655pp, hc, anth) Cover: Hannes Bok
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV09N03192703

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OPUS#210 Valley of the Gods, The

OPUS: #210
Title: The Valley of the Gods
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: novelette
“Guarding this fabulous, legendary valley is a sinister night – shrouded place of the dead”–TOC
“Places of death are not feared by an archaeologist – that is, most places!”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 5, May 1946, (May 1946, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 98pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Ronald Clyne; Illust: Dolgov
  • 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: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n05_1946-05

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OPUS#003 Metal Giants, The

OPUS: #003
Title: The Metal Giants
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1926
Type: novelette
“Pivoting instantly, the huge wheel rolled with terrific speed and power toward the giant that waited to grapple with it.”
“Huge metal monsters spread terror through the land – the tale of a Frankenstein that turned on its creator”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 6, December 1926, (Dec 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: Joseph Doolin; Illust: Doolin
  • The Metal Giants, (1932, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Swanson Book Co., #1, 40pp, ph)
  • The Gernsback Awards Volume 1, 1926, (1982, ed. Forrest J. Ackerman, publ. Triton Books, 0-943958-01-6, $14.95, v+309pp, hc, anth) Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin

Reviews:
Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N06192612

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OPUS#002 Across Space

OPUS: #002
Title: Across Space
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1926
Type: novella
Across Space (Part 1 of 3) (1926) – Edmond Hamilton
Across Space (Part 2 of 3) (1926) – Edmond Hamilton
Across Space (Part 3 of 3) (1926) – Edmond Hamilton
“A shaft of red light stabs the sky, and Mars hurtles in flaming destruction straight toward Earth”-TOC of part 1
“As I whirled around, my eyes met a sight that froze the words on my lips in sheer surprize and terror.”-part 1
“A three-part weird-scientific serial – strange beings in Rano Kao volcano pull the planet Mars from its orbit.”- TOC of part 2
“As I whirled around, my eyes met a sight that froze the words on my lips in sheer, surprize and terror.”-part 2
“A three-part weird-scientific serial – strange beings under Easter Island pull the planet Mars from its orbit”-TOC of part 3
“A great red ray of light stabs across space toward Mars from the crater of Rano Kao volcano on Easter Island, carrying with it the magnetic force of Earth’s northern magnetic pole against the southern magnetic pole of Mars. The red planet is pulled from its orbit and hurtles straight toward Earth.
Dr. Whitley and Professor Allan try to save the Earth from destruction, but are captured by the bat-winged men from Mars who live in the crater of the extinct volcano, and are carried to their city in the bowels of the Earth. There they learn the details of the Martians’ scheme from Dr. Holland, who has been captured years before. The captives plan to escape from their guards (strange, mechanically constructed creatures created by the bat-winged Martians), in a desperate attempt to save the Earth. If they fail – and the chances are a million to one against them – in a few days the atmosphere of Mars will touch that of Earth, and the world will be overrun by Martians flying from their planet to Earth, armed with a crumbling ray to destroy humanity.”-part 3

「九月から三カ月にわたって発表された＜＜宇宙を渡って＞＞シリーズは、この若い作家のあらゆる可能性を示すものだった。売り子が新聞を振り上げながら大声をはりあげている。語り手のアランがふと目をやると、その新聞には大きな活字で”世界の終わり”という見出しが出ている。この時から意外な出来事がはじまるのである。アランはすぐ新聞を買い求めて、公式声明を読む。（中略）けれども衝突は起こらないのである。火星は接近しているのではなかった。実は、地球上には、黎明期以来火星から追放され、地下都市で生活している火星人がいたのである。彼らの科学によって、火星は地球に引き寄せられているのだった。この火星人の存在は、私たちにはまったく知られていない。彼らはイースター島の巨石像に似ている。というのは、この巨石像は、火星人が地球の土を踏んでいた時代の名残りだったのである（イースター島にある巨石像の期限に関して、公認の科学が伏せている新事実を明らかにするのだと主張する作家は少なくなく、この種の馬鹿げた説明は今日ひきもきらぬ有様である）」- ジャック・サドゥール著; 鹿島茂,鈴木秀治訳『現代SFの歴史』(早川書房, 1984.12)　p. 117
「最初に掲載されのは「マムルスの邪神」だが、先に売れたのは「宇宙横断」だった。これは人類が誕生するよりも前に地球に植民していた火星人が、いまも地下の洞窟で生きているという話。彼らは地球を乗っとって、火星を地球近くの軌道まで動かす計画に取りかかっていた。この作品にはハミルトンが十代のころから愛読していたマンジー系雑誌の影響がうかがえるが、彼はその後またたくまに、こうした種類のSFの第一人者としての地位を確立していく。」 – マイク・アシュリー著; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史 : パルプマガジンの饗宴』（東京創元社, 2004.7） p. 159
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 3, September 1926, (Sep 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: E. M. Stevenson; Illust: Olnick
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 4, October 1926, (Oct 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr.; Illust: None
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 5, November 1926, (Nov 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: E. M. Stevenson; Illust: Olnick
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook of part 1: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N03192609
ebook of part 2: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N03192609
ebook of part 3: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N05192611

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OPUS#001 Monster-God of Mamurth, The

Title: The Monster-God of Mamurth
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1926
Type: short story
Note: first submitted as “Beyond the Unseen Wall”. then “The Desert God”
“Creeping horror, weird thrills, uncanny shivers, are in this eery tale of the Desert of Igidi”–TOC
“I had not killed the thing, but had chained it down by the block that held it prisoner.”
「目に見えないサハラの秘密都市を透明蜘蛛が守っている」 – マイク・アシュリー著; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史 : パルプマガジンの饗宴』（東京創元社, 2004.7） p. 159
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol.8, no. 2, August 1926, (Aug 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr.; Illust: Olnick
  • Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror, (Aug 1929, ed. T. Everett Harré, publ. The Macaulay Company, $2.50, 461pp, hc, anth)
  • Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror, (1931, 2nd ed. T. Everett Harré, publ. Gold Label, 461pp, anth)
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 26, no. 3, September 1935, (Sep 1935, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror, (1942 or 1945, 3rd ed. T. Everett Harré, publ. Emerson, 461pp, anth)
  • Magazine of Horror, Vol. 3, no. 2=No. 14, Winter 1966/67, (1966, ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes, publ. Health Knowledge, Inc., magazine) Cover: Hubert Carter
  • 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
  • Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2001, (2001, ed. John O’Neill, publ. New Epoch Press, $8.00, 240pp, tp, magazine) Cover: Hung Ving Mac
  • Jim Baen’s Universe, October 2007, (Oct 2007, ed. Mike Resnick, Eric Flint, publ. Baen Books, #1932093023, $6.00, ebook, magazine)
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin
  • 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 (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/monstergod_hamilton.html
ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N02192608