The Haunted Stars
London : H. Jenkins, 1965. –
174 p. ; 20 cm.
Cover: Brian Lewis NUC: 80-547042
It meant little to Robert Fairlie, a serious and dedicated young philologist, that the United States and Soviet Russia were at odds about the Moon. He had little interest in the first rocket landings on the bases that the two nations had built there.
and he neither knew nor cared why the Americans would not agree to mutual inspections of these bases.
Yet the American had reason enough: and quite unexpectedly, because of his specialized knowledge of languages, he found himself sharing the burden of an incredible secret. For what the Americans base had yielded was astounding evidence that space had already been conquered many countries before bya a people who had once spanned the stars. There had been machines and destructive weapons beyond the comprehension of present-day scientists which, if knowledge of them fell into the wrong hands, could plunge the world into unutterable chaos.
Fairlie’s trip to the closely-guarded rocket base in New Mexico turned out to be only the first step on a fantastic journey amid the unexplored stars to the home-world of the space-conquerors of long ago.
It was a journey into the appalling reality of stellar space still haunted by the past cosmic struggle whose scale in space and time dwarfed th rivalries of tiny Earth’s quarrelling nations.

The Haunted Stars
Toronto : Dodd, 1960. –

The Haunted Stars : a Science Fiction Novel
New York : Pyramid Books, 1962.2. –
159 p. ; 18 cm. – (Pyramid Books ; F-698)
Cover: Kandinsky
“A tense tale of the near future – and of man’s destiny among” — Cover
They called it operation darkness …
In strictest secrecy the team of scientists and linguistic experts worked feverishly over the ancient manchines and inscriptions they had found on the Moon – relics of a civilization that had visited the Solar System 300 centuries ago. Here was the secret of space travel … the road back to The Haunted Stars.
Then they found the way to use the secret – and with it a truth they dared not face!

Book review

• Malcolm, Donald, in: Vector, no. 33, June 1965

The Haunted Stars – Book Club Edition –
New York : Distributed by Dodd-Mead, 1960.1. –
192 p. ; 22 cm. – (A Torquil Book) LCCN: 59-15721
Note: No price, BOOK CLUB|EDITION in lower right corner of front dust jacket flap. Both club issue. No statement of printing on copyright page. – Currey’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: a Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction
Note: Gutter code B3 indicates a January 1960 printing. This first printing was from the same press run as the trade edition which has the same code. — Cuurey’s ???
Note: A second printing in April 1960 has a gutter code of “B18” — Currey’s ???
IT MEANT LITTLE  to young Robert Fairlie, a serious and dedicated philologist, that in this year 1966 the United States and Soviet Russia were contentious about the Moon. He had little interest in the first two rocket landings on the moon, and the bases that the two nations had built there. He knew nothing at all of the shattering discovery that the Americans had made there.
For what had been found was of such explosive potentialities that it had to be kept top-secret – the discovery that space had already been conquered long ago by races who had once spanned the stars. So that men who had expected to spend decades in reaching the nearest planet, found suddenly in their hands the way to the wider universe.
Fairlie, drawn unexpectedly because of his special knowledge into this greatest of secrets, finds that a guarded New Mexico rocket-base is only the first step of the way. That way leads out amid the unexplored stars to the lost heartworld of those space-conquerors of long ago. And it leads Fairlie and others into the appalling reality of stellar space still haunted by the past cosmic struggle whose scale in space and time dwarfs the rivalries of tiny Earth’s quarreling nations.

The Haunted Stars
New York : Distributed by Dodd-Mead, 1960.1. –
192 p. ; 22 cm. – (A Torquil Book) LCCN: 59-15721
Note: Price $2.95 appiears in the upper right corner of front dust jacket flap. – Currey’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: a Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction
Note: Gutter code B3 indicates a January 1960 printing. This first printing was from the same press run as the trade edition which has the same code. — Cuurey’s ???
Note: A second printing in April 1960 has a gutter code of “B18″ — Currey’s ???
Note: First edition, first printing with the code “B3” in the gutter margins of the last page of text, trade issue, 1960. The original price of $2.95 at the top right corner of the front flap of the original, first printing dust jacket is unclipped. — Currey’s ???