• Publication: The Hidden World, Spring 1961Publication Record # 253439 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: Ray Palmer
• Date: 1961-00-00
• Publisher: Palmer Publications, Inc.
• Price:
  $1.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 194
• Format:
  pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Notes: Issue No. A-1. Cover art not credited. The editorial is signed "The Editors", but is attributed to Ray Palmer in the table of contents. "The Ancient Alphabet" is attributed to Ray Palmer and Richard S. Shaver in the table of contents, but to Richard S. Shaver alone on the title page. "I Remember Lemuria!" is attributed to both Palmer and Shaver on the title page as well as in the table of contents presumably due to the extensive footnotes added to this version by Palmer. Trimmed pulp format.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 2 • Editorial (The Hidden World, Spring 1961) • essay by Raymond A. Palmer [as by Ray Palmer]
• 4 • Invitation to Adventure • essay by Raymond A. Palmer [as by Ray Palmer]
• 15 • A Witch in the Night • short story by Richard S. Shaver
• 23 • The Tormenting Voices • short story by Richard S. Shaver
• 29 • Flight into Futility • short story by Richard S. Shaver
• 34 • I Enter the Caves • short story by Richard S. Shaver
• 40 • A Taste of Heaven • short story by Richard S. Shaver
• 46 • The Living Library • short story by Richard S. Shaver
• 52 • "I Remember Lemuria!" • [Mutan Mion] • (1945) • novella by Richard S. Shaver [as by Ray Palmer and Richard S. Shaver]
• 52 •  "I Remember Lemuria!" • interior artwork by uncredited
• 92 •  "I Remember Lemuria!" [2] • interior artwork by uncredited
• 101 •  "I Remember Lemuria!" [3] • interior artwork by uncredited
• 135 • Disaster and Escape • short story by Richard S. Shaver
• 139 • The Ancient Alphabet • essay by Raymond A. Palmer and Richard S. Shaver [as by Ray Palmer and Richard S. Shaver]
• 150 • A Dictionary of the Manthong Language • essay by Richard S. Shaver
• 169 • Why the Caves Are Secret • essay by Richard S. Shaver