Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was an American author of

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Early life

Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915. Kuttner (1829–1903) and Amelia Bush (c. 1834–1911), the parents of his father, the bookseller Henry Kuttner (1863–1920), had come from

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and lived in San Francisco since 1859; the parents of his mother, Annie Levy (1875–1954), were from Great Britain. Henry Kuttner's great-grandfather was the scholar

Josua Heschel Kuttner Josua Heschel Kuttner or Kutner (Hebrew: יהושע העשיל קוטנר) (c.1803 – 5 July 1878) was a Jewish Orthodox scholar and rabbi. He was born in Wreschen (Września) in the Grand Duchy of Posen, the son of Aron Kuttner and his wi ...

. Kuttner grew up in relative poverty following the death of his father. As a young man he worked in his spare time for the literary agency of his uncle,

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(in fact his first cousin by marriage), in Los Angeles before selling his first story, "

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", to ''

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'' in early 1936. It was while working for the d'Orsay agency that Kuttner picked

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's early manuscripts off the slush pile; it was under his tutelage that she sold her first story (to

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at ''

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'').

Kuttner and Moore

Kuttner was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. They met through their association with the " Lovecraft Circle", a group of writers and fans who corresponded with

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. Their work together spanned the 1940s and 1950s and most of the work was credited to pseudonyms, mainly

Lewis Padgett Lewis Padgett was the joint pseudonym of the science fiction authors and spouses Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore,Nicholls 1979, p. 445. taken from their mothers' maiden names. They also used the pseudonyms Lawrence O'Donnell and C. H. Liddell, as ...

and Lawrence O'Donnell.

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, who knew Kuttner and Moore well, has stated that their collaboration was so seamless that, after a story was completed, it was often impossible for either Kuttner or Moore to recall who had written what. According to de Camp, it was typical for either partner to break off from a story in mid-paragraph or even mid-sentence, with the latest page of the manuscript still in the typewriter. The other spouse would routinely continue the story where the first had left off. They alternated in this manner as many times as necessary until the story was finished. Among Kuttner's most popular work were the Gallegher stories, published under the Padgett name, about a man who invented high-tech solutions to client problems (assisted by his insufferably egomaniacal robot) when he was drunk, only to be completely unable to remember exactly what he had built or why after sobering up. These stories were later collected in '' Robots Have No Tails''. In her introduction to the 1973 Lancer Books edition, Moore stated that Kuttner wrote all the Gallegher stories himself.

Influence

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is among many authors who have cited Kuttner as an influence. Her novel ''The Bloody Sun'' is dedicated to him.

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has talked about the influence of ''The Dark World'' on his

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series. Kuttner's friend

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dedicated his 1954 novel '' I Am Legend'' to Kuttner, with thanks for his help and encouragement.

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has said that Kuttner actually wrote the last 300 words of Bradbury's first horror story, "The Candle" (''Weird Tales'', November 1942). Bradbury has referred to Kuttner as a neglected master and a "pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas".

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's novel ''

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'' contains direct quotes from Kuttner regarding the "Happy Cloak" parasitic pleasure monster from the Venusian seas. Mary Elizabeth Counselman believed that Kuttner's habit of writing under widely varied pseudonyms deprived him of the fame that should have been his. "I have often wondered why Kuttner chose to hide his talents behind so many false faces for no editorial reason... Admittedly, the fun is in pretending to be someone else. But Kuttner cheated himself of much fame that he richly deserved by hiding his light under a bushel of pen names that many fans did not know were his.

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and I both chided him about this." According to J. Vernon Shea, August Derleth "kept promising to publish Hank's and Catherine's books under the

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imprint, but kept postponing them."

The Cthulhu Mythos

A friend of Lovecraft's as well as of

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, Kuttner contributed several stories to the

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genre, based on the writing of the former and added to, among other authors, by the latter. Among these were "The Secret of Kralitz" (Weird Tales, October 1936), "The Eater of Souls" (''Weird Tales'', January 1937), "The Salem Horror" (''Weird Tales'', May 1937), "The Invaders" ('' Strange Stories'', February 1939) and "The Hunt" (''Strange Stories'', June 1939). Kuttner added a few lesser-known deities to the Mythos, including Iod ("The Secret of Kralitz"), Vorvadoss ("The Eater of Souls"), the Hydra and Nyogtha ("The Salem Horror"). Critic Shawn Ramsey suggests that Abigail Prinn, the villain of "The Salem Horror", might have been intended by Kuttner to be a descendant of Ludvig Prinn, author of ''

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''—a book that appears in Kuttner's "The Invaders". ''Etchings and Odysseys'' No 4 (1984), edited by Eric A. Carlson, John J. Koblas and R. Alain Everts, was a special Kuttner tribute issue featuring three reprinted tales by Kuttner - "It Walks By Night", "The Frog" and "The Invaders," together with various essays on Kuttner, and an interview with his wife and fellow writer C.L. Moore. ''

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'' 5, No 7 (whole number 41) (Lammas 1986), edited by

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, was a special Henry Kuttner issue collecting eight Cthulhu Mythos stories by Kuttner. (It did not include "Spawn of Dagon" or "The Invaders"). '' The Book of Iod: Ten Tales of the Mythos'' is a collection of Kuttner's Cthulhu Mythos stories edited by Robert M. Price (Chaosium, 1995). (It also contains three additional tales concerning 'Iod's dread tome' by

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and

). The Kuttner stories included are: "The Secret of Kralitz", "The Eater of Souls", "The Salem Horror", "The Jest of Droom-Avesta", "Spawn of Dagon", "The Invaders", "The Frog", "Hydra", "Bells of Horror" and "The Hunt" - thus, all the Mythos stories which had appeared in the special Kuttner issue of ''Crypt of Cthulhu'', plus "Spawn of Dagon" and "The Invaders". The story "The Black Kiss" (printed here, as often elsewhere, under the joint byline of Kuttner and Robert Bloch), was in fact written entirely by Bloch; Bloch co-credited Kuttner on the tale due to using the character Michael Leigh from "The Salem Horror". "Beneath the Tombstone" by

and "Dead of Night" by

round out the volume. Price points out in his introduction to the volume that "Henry Kuttner's own private corner of the Cthulhu Mythos was, then, apparently derived in about equal measure from Lovecraft, Bloch,

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, and

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Later life

Kuttner spent the mid-1950s getting his master's degree but died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1958.

Known pseudonyms

* Edward J. Bellin * Paul Edmonds * Noel Gardner * Will Garth * James Hall * Keith Hammond * Hudson Hastings * Peter Horn * Kelvin Kent (used for work with Arthur K. Barnes) * Robert O. Kenyon * C. H. Liddell * Hugh Maepenn * Scott Morgan * Lawrence O'Donnell *

* Woodrow Wilson Smith * Charles Stoddard (house pseudonym used by others as well)

Partial bibliography

Short stories

Tony Quade stories

* "I. Hollywood on the Moon" (1938) * "II. Doom World" (1938) * "III. The Star Parade" (1938) * "IV. Trouble on Titan" (1941)

Elak of Atlantis stories

* "Thunder in the Dawn" (1938) * "Spawn of Dagon" (1938) * "Beyond the Phoenix" (1939) * "Dragon Moon" (1941)

Thunder Jim Wade series (as by Charles Stoddard)

* "Thunder Jim Wade" (1941) * "The Hills of Gold" (1941) * "The Poison People" (1941) * "The Devil's Glacier" (1941) * "Waters of Death" (1941)

"Baldy" Stories

* "The Piper's Son" (1945) * "Three Blind Mice" (1945) * "The Lion And The Unicorn" (1945) * "Beggars in Velvet" (1945) * "Humpty Dumpty" (1953) * "Mutant" (1953)

Cthulhu Mythos stories

* "The Secret of Kralitz" (1936) * "The Eater of Souls" (1937) * "The Salem Horror" (1937) * "The Invaders" (1939) * "Bells of Horror" (1939) * "The Hunt" (1939) * "The Jest of Droom-Avesta" * "Spawn of Dagon" * "The Frog" * "Hydra"

Gallegher stories

* "The Proud Robot" (as

, 1943) * "The Time Locker" (as

, 1943) * "Gallegher Plus" (as

, 1943) * "The World Is Mine" (as

, 1943) * "Ex Machina" (as

, 1948)

Hogben stories

* "The Old Army Game" (1941) * "Exit the Professor" (as Kuttner and as

, 1947) * "Pile of Trouble" (1948) * "See You Later" (as Kuttner and as

, 1949) * "Cold War" (as Kuttner and as

, 1949)

Other

* "

" (1936), adapted for ''

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'' (1996) and ''

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'' (2022) *
Dictator of the Americas
(as James Hall, 1938) *
Avengers of Space
(1938) * "Beauty and the Beast" (1940) * "Dr. Cyclops" (1940) * "Masquerade" (1942), adapted for episode of television series ''

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'' (1961) * "

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" (as

, 1943) used as the basis for the 2007 film ''

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'', and for the French TV adaptation "Tout spliques étaient les Borogoves" (1970) * "Clash by Night" (with C. L. Moore) (1943) * " Nothing but Gingerbread Left" (1943) * "The Twonky" (as

, 1942), adapted for

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of the same name in 1953 * "The Eyes of Thar" (published in ''

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'', Fall Issue, 1944) * "What You Need" (as

, 1945) adapted for " What You Need" episodes of ''

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'' (1952) and ''

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'' (1959) television shows * "The Cure" (1946) * "The Dark Angel" (with C. L. Moore, 1946), later published as "Dark Angel" (as

, 1975), adapted for episode of same name of television series ''

'' * "Call Him Demon" (1946) * "

Vintage Season ''Vintage Season'' is a science fiction novella by American authors Catherine L. Moore and Henry Kuttner, published under the joint pseudonym "Lawrence O'Donnell" in September, 1946. It has been anthologized many times and was selected for '' T ...

" (with C. L. Moore; 1946), filmed in 1992 as ''

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'' *
Land of the Earthquake
(1947) * "

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" (1949) * "Satan Sends Flowers" (1953) * "Or Else" (1953) * ''The Best of Henry Kuttner'' anthologizes 17 stories. (

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, 1975). * ''The Eyes of Thar'' (1944) * ''Atomic!'' (1947)

Fixups

* ''

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'' (the Baldie stories) (1953) * '' Robots Have No Tails'' (the Gallegher stories, as

) (1952) * ''Hollywood on the Moon'' (the Tony Quade stories) (2019)

Novels

* ''A Million Years to Conquer'' (1940), published in book form as ''The Creature from Beyond Infinity'' (1968) * '' Earth's Last Citadel'' (with C. L. Moore) (1943, first book publication 1964) * '' The Fairy Chessmen'' (1946, as

, also retitled as ''Chessboard Planet'' and ''The Far Reality'') * ''

Valley of the Flame ''Valley of the Flame'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Henry Kuttner, first published in the March 1946 issue of the magazine ''Startling Stories'' under the pseudonym "Keith Hammond". Plot summary The year is 1985 and the location is ...

'' (1946, first book publication 1964) * '' The Dark World'' (with C. L. Moore (assumed)) (1946, first book publication 1965) * ''The Brass Ring'' (with C. L. Moore) (1946, nongenre, also published as ''Murder in Brass'') * '' Tomorrow and Tomorrow'' (1947, as

) * ''Fury'' (as Lawrence O'Donnell with C. L. Moore) (1947, first book publication 1950, later published under the title ''Destination: Infinity'' in 1958) * ''The Day He Died'' (with C. L. Moore) (1947, nongenre) * ''The Mask of Circe'' (1948, first book publication 1971) (Illustrated by

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in 1971) * ''The Time Axis'' (1949, first book publication 1965) * ''The Portal in the Picture'' (with C. L. Moore) (1949, also known as ''Beyond Earth's Gates'') * ''The Well of the Worlds'' (1952, first book publication 1953) * ''Man Drowning'' (1952, nongenre) * ''The Murder of Eleanor Pope'' (1956, nongenre) * ''The Murder of Ann Avery'' (1956, nongenre) * ''Murder of a Mistress'' (1957, nongenre) * ''Murder of a Wife'' (1958, nongenre)

Collections

* '' Ahead of Time'' * '' The Best of Henry Kuttner'' * ''The Best of Kuttner 1'' * ''The Best of Kuttner 2'' * '' The Book of Iod'' * ''Bypass to Otherness'' * ''Chessboard Planet and Other Stories'' (with C. L. Moore) * ''Clash by Night and Other Stories'' (with C. L. Moore) * ''Detour to Otherness'' (with C. L. Moore) * '' Elak of Atlantis'' * '' A Gnome There Was'' * ''Hollywood on the Moon / Man About Time: The Pete Manx Adventures'' (with Arthur K. Barnes) (announced for 2011) * ''Kuttner Times Three'' * ''Line to Tomorrow and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' (with C. L. Moore) * ''The Michael Gray Murders'' (with C. L. Moore) (announced for 2012) * ''No Boundaries'' (with C. L. Moore) * ''Prince Raynor'' * ''Return to Otherness'' * ''Secret of the Earth Star and Others'' * ''The Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner'' * ''Terror in the House: The Early Kuttner, Volume One'' * ''Thunder in the Void'' * ''Thunder Jim Wade'' * ''Two-Handed Engine: The Selected Short Fiction of Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore'' * '' The Hogben Chronicles''— Kickstarter Project posthumously pushed by

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, F. Paul Wilson, Pierce Waters, Thomas L. Monteleone, and with special assist by

Alan Moore Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', Swamp Thing (comic book), ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman: The Killing Joke' ...

Television

* "The Martian Eyes" episode(s) of '' Lights Out (radio show)#On television, Lights Out'' series (1950 and/or 1951

* "Price on His Head" episode of series ''

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'' (195

* ''

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'' (pilot for television series that was not picked up, 195

* "The Eye" episode of ''

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'' television series (196

Comic books

* "Doiby Dickles Enters High Sassiety";

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comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #12; Summer 1944 * "The Gambler";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #12; Summer 1944 * "The Lord Haw-Haw of Crime";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #13; Fall 1944 * "Doiby Dickles, Da District Attorney";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

All-American Comics ''All-American Comics'' is a comics anthology and the flagship title of comic book publisher All-American Publications, one of the forerunners of DC Comics. It ran for 102 issues from 1939 to 1948. Characters created for the title, including Gree ...

'' #62; December 1944 * "A Tale of a City";

comic story; 12 pages; ''

Comic Cavalcade ''Comic Cavalcade'' was an anthology comic book published by DC Comics from 1942 to 1954. Most American comic book publishers in the 1930s and 1940s Golden Age of comic books published anthology titles that showcased a variety of characters, us ...

'' #9; Winter 1944 * "The Cave Kid Goes To Town";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #14; Winter 1944-45 * "The Jewel of Hope";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #16; Summer 1945 * "Doiby Dickles, the Human Bomb";

comic story; 12 pages; ''

'' #71; March 1946 * "The Last of the Buccaneers";

comic story; 12 pages; ''

'' #18; Winter 1945-1946 * "The Man Who Doubled In Death, or, The Duplicity of Johnny Double";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #18; Winter 1945-1946 * "Sing a Song of Disaster";

comic story; 12 pages; ''

'' #19; April–May 1946 * "Dickles Vs. Fate";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #19; April–May 1946 * "Jonah Was a Jinx";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #19; April–May 1946 * "The Gambler Comes Back";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #20; June–July 1946 * "The Good Humor Man";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #21; August–September 1946 * "What Makes Goitrude Go?";

/ comic story / 13 pages; ''

'' (1941 series) #21; August–September 1946 * "The Man Who Insults Everybody";

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #22; October–November 1946 * "The Invisible World"

comic story; 13 pages; ''

'' #22; October–November 1946

Notes

External links

Henry Kuttner profile at Fantastic Fiction

Lewis Padgett profile at Fantastic Fiction
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* ttp://www.haffnerpress.com Books by Henry Kuttner from Haffner Press*
Past Masters - A Kuttner Above the Rest (But Wait! There's Moore!)
by Bud Webster, at Galactic Central *
Lewis Padgett
at LC Authorities, with 8 records, an
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Early life

Kuttner and Moore

Influence

The Cthulhu Mythos

Later life

Known pseudonyms

Partial bibliography

Short stories

Tony Quade stories

Elak of Atlantis stories

Thunder Jim Wade series (as by Charles Stoddard)

"Baldy" Stories

Cthulhu Mythos stories

Gallegher stories

Hogben stories

Other

Fixups

Novels

Collections

Television

Comic books

Notes

Further reading

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