Title: The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika
Title Record # 57053
Author: Curt Siodmak
Date: 1926-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Curt Siodmak
Date: 1926-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Thought to be first published in Scherl Magazine, 1926.
Amazing Stories, July 1926, unsigned illustration.
Synopsis: Professor Meyer-Maier encounters a cluster of enormous eggs near Lake Tanganyika in Africa. He brings the egss back to Berlin, where they commence to hatch into gigantic insects that suck blood. The insects fail to multiply due to their large size. Obviously patterned on H. G. Wells.
Available on page 383, Bleiler (Gernsback).
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Amazing Stories, July 1926 | 1926-07-00 | ed. Hugo Gernsback | Experimenter Publishing Co. | $0.25?$: US dollar |
96 | bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding. |
mag | Frank R. Paul |  |
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| Science Fiction Classics, No. 1 | 1967-06-00 | ed. Ralph Adris | Magazine Productions | $0.50?$: US dollar |
132 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | Leo Morey | |
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| The Gernsback Awards 1926: Volume 1 | 1982-00-00 | ed. Forrest J Ackerman | Triton Books | 0-943958-01-6 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
v+ 309 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Frank R. Paul | |
| The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy | 2000-07-18 | ed. Garyn G. Roberts | Prentice-Hall | 0-13-021280-6 | $47.00?$: US dollar |
xviii+ 1166 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Frank R. Paul | |
| The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy | 2003-00-00 | ed. Garyn G. Roberts | Prentice-Hall | 0-13-021280-6 |
xviii+ 1166 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Frank R. Paul | |
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| Amazing Stories (1926-1935) | 2006-04-26 | ed. Francisco Arellano | La Biblioteca del Laberinto (Delirio #1) | 84-934166-1-4 | 213 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Frank R. Paul | ||
| Invertebrata Enigmatica: Giant Spiders, Dangerous Insects, and Other Strange Invertebrates in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy | 2008-12-00 | ed. Chad Arment | Coachwhip Publications | 978-1-930585-65-2 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
396 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | ||
| The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1926 Anthology | 2014-08-01 | ed. Steve Davidson, Jean Marie Stine | Experimenter Publishing Company (Amazing Stories Classics) | 978-1-5007-1595-3 | $9.99?$: US dollar |
246 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Frank R. Paul | |
| The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1926 Anthology | 2014-08-04 | ed. Steve Davidson, Jean Marie Stine | Experimenter Publishing Company (Amazing Stories Classics) | $3.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Frank R. Paul | |||
| The Baen Big Book of Monsters | 2014-10-07 | ed. Hank Davis | Baen Books | 978-1-4767-3699-0 | $14.00?$: US dollar |
479 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Bob Eggleton | |
| Abseits der Geographie: Unheimliche und phantastische Geschichten aus der Zeit zwischen 1838 und 1946 | 2022-09-00 | ed. Lars Dangel | Dunkelgestirn | €50.00?€: Euro |
366 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Angelika Pillous | |