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The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika

Curt Siodmak

First published July 1926
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

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.<br> Available on page 383, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?GRSBCKYR1999">Bleiler (Gernsback)</a>.

Notes

Thought to be first published in Scherl Magazine, 1926.
Amazing Stories, July 1926, unsigned illustration.

Publications (9)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1926 Amazing Stories, July 1926 Experimenter Publishing Company MAGAZINE 346
June 1967 Science Fiction Classics, No. 1 Magazine Productions MAGAZINE 93
1982 The Gernsback Awards 1926: Volume 1 Triton Books Anthology 48|48.2
July 2000 The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 495
2003 The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 495
December 2008 Invertebrata Enigmatica: Giant Spiders, Dangerous Insects, and Other Strange Invertebrates in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Coachwhip Publications Anthology 314
August 2014 The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1926 Anthology Experimenter Publishing Company Anthology 120
August 2014 The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1926 Anthology Experimenter Publishing Company Anthology |10
October 2014 The Baen Big Book of Monsters Baen Books Anthology 175