Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954) is an unlikely early Science Fiction writer. He traveled throughout North and South America and was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt. (It is much more likely he should have been a writer for Adventure like Arthur O. Friel.) Despite being the author of the most popular book on tying knots and a boys’ adventure series called The Radio Detectives, Verrill became one of Hugo Gernsback’s first new regulars at Amazing Stories in 1926. Basing his work on Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, he satisfied the new Pulp’s need for ‘similar but new’ works to those great writers. E. F. Bleiler says of him: “more literate than most of their competition, but stodgy…”
1. “Beyond the Pole” (Amazing Stories, October-November 1926)
2. “Through the Crater’s Rim” (Amazing Stories, December 1926)
3. “The Man Who Could Vanish” (Amazing Stories, January 1927)
4. “The Plague of the Living Dead” (Amazing Stories, March 1927)
5. “The Voice From the Inner World” (Amazing Stories, July 1927)
6. “The Ultra-Elixir of Youth” (Amazing Stories, August 1927)
7. “The Astounding Discoveries of Doctor Mentiroso” (Amazing Stories, November 1927)
8. “The Psychological Solution” (Amazing Stories, January 1928)
9. “The King of the Monkey Men” (Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring 1928)
10. “World of the Giant Ants” (Amazing Stories Quarterly, Fall 1928)
11. “Into the Green Prism” (Amazing Stories, March 1929)
12. “Death From the Skies” (Amazing Stories, October 1929)
13. “The Bridge of Light” (Amazing Stories Quarterly, Fall 1929)
14. “Vampires of the Desert” (Amazing Stories, December 1929)
15. “Beyond the Green Prism” (Amazing Stories, January 1930)
16. “Dirigibles of Death” (Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1930)
17. “The Feathered Detective” (Amazing Stories, April 1930)
18. “The Non-Gravitational Vortex” (Amazing Stories, June 1930)
19. “A Visit to Suari” (Amazing Stories, July 1930)
20. “Monsters of the Ray” (Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1930)
21. “When the Moon Ran Wild” (Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1931)
22. “The Exterminator” (Amazing Stories, February 1931)
23. “Treasure of the Golden God” (Amazing Stories, January-February 1933)
24. “The Death Drum” (Amazing Stories, May 1933)
25. “Through the Andres” (Amazing Stories, September-November 1934)
26. “The Inner World” (Amazing Stories, June-August 1935)
27. “The Mummy of Ret-seh” (Fantastic Adventures, May 1939)
28. “The Flying Head” (Strange Stories, June 1939)
29. “The Ghostly Vengeance” (Strange Stories, October 1939)
