If you missed the first part…
The second half of Hasse’s career showed moments of production followed by large gaps. He wrote his only novel in 1968, The Stars Will Wait, a space opera. After this he retired again to appear one last time in Whispers, writing two horror tales for Stuart David Schiff. Writing Horror may seem odd for a man who liked space opera but Hasse did pen the Cthulhu Mythos tale “The Guardian of the Book” for Weird Tales in 1937. Like other old-timers, Frank Belknap Long, Carl Jacobi and Emil Petaja, Hasse allowed himself one last outing in the pages of the small press.
The 1950s
1950
“Tomb of the Seven Taajos” (Amazing Stories, February 1950)
“Survival” (Other Worlds Science Stories, March 1950)
“Don’t Come to Mars!” (Fantastic Adventures, April 1950) with Emil Petaja
1951
“The Eyes” (Fantasy Book #8, 1951)
“Dear Cold Ruth” reprinted in Cavalcade, July 1951.
1952
“The Secret of Satellite Seven” (Amazing Stories, February 1952) with Emil Petaja as by Theodore Pine
“One Purple Hope!” (Planet Stories, July 1952)
“…And Return” (Space Stories, October 1952)
1953
“Three Lines of Old Martian” (Space Stories, February 1953) Hasse is referring to A. Merritt’s classic tale “Three Lines of Old French” (1919) with this title.
“Ultimate Life” (Science-Fiction Plus, August 1953) with Albert dePina
1954
“Subject for Today” (Fantastic Universe, November 1954)
“Via Paradox” (Spaceway, December 1954) with Albert dePina
1957
“Clansmen of Fear” (Science Fiction Adventures, April 1957)
The 1960s
1960
“We’re Friends, Now” (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, April 1960)
1961
“The Violin String” (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, April 1961)
“The Beginning” (Amazing Stories, May 1961)
1968
The Stars Will Wait (1968)
The 1970s
1973
“The Way to Casm’s Place” (Whispers, December 1973)
1975
“The Ensorcelled” (Whispers, June 1975)
Conclusion
Henry Hasse’s career spanned four decades of Science Fiction. His work will be seen as that of a hobbyist perhaps, but he did manage to sell stories to ten famous editors including Hugo Gernsback, T. O’Conor Sloane, F. Orlin Tremaine, Farnsworth Wright, Fredrick Pohl, Malcolm Reiss, Ray A. Palmer, Howard Brown, Frederick Dannay and Cele Goldsmith. He never sold to John W. Campbell, but you can’t have everything. He got to chum around with the likes of Ray Bradbury, Emil Petaja and Hannes Bok, so there’s compensations for not being an Astounding Science-Fiction author. What fan could ask for more?
