Henry Kuttner (1915–1958)
Author of Fury
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Kuttner and his wife C. L. Moore often collaborated. According to Wikipedia, pseudonyms used by him or by both included: Edward J. Bellin, Paul Edmonds, Noel Gardner, Will Garth, James Hall, Keith Hammond, Hudson Hastings, Peter Horn, Kelvin Kent, Robert O. Kenyon, C. H. Liddell, Hugh Maepenn, Scott Morgan, Lawrence O'Donnell, Lewis Padgett, Woodrow Wilson Smith, and Charles Stoddard. Despite the fact that they often collaborated, they are nevertheless separate authors who should have separate author pages. Please do not combine one with the other, or the other's pseudonyms. Thank you.
Series
Works by Henry Kuttner
Two Handed Engine The Selected Stories of Henry Kuttner and C.L.Moore (2005) — Editor; Author — 96 copies, 1 review
The Michael Gray Novels: The Murder of Eleanor Pope, The Murder of Ann Avery, Murder of a Mistress, and Murder of a Wife (2014) 7 copies
The Graveyard Rats And Other Stories 6 copies
Nothing But Gingerbread Left 5 copies
House of Terror: Henry Kuttner' Horror Boxed Set: Macabre Classics by Henry Kuttner: I, the Vampire, The Salem Horror, Chameleon Man (2020) 4 copies
Home Is The Hunter — Author — 4 copies
The Cure 4 copies
Piggy Bank 4 copies
The Voice of the Lobster 4 copies
Housing Problem 4 copies
Carry Me Home 4 copies
Year Day 3 copies
As You Were 3 copies
Endowment Policy 3 copies
The Sky Is Falling 3 copies
Beyond The Phoenix 3 copies
The Lion and the Unicorn 3 copies
The Collected Works of Henry Kuttner: The Ego Machine, Where the World is Quiet, I, the Vampire, The Salem Horror, Chameleon Man (2020) 3 copies
Baby Face 3 copies
Swing Your Lady 3 copies
Noon 3 copies
The Dark Angel 3 copies
4 Titles By Henry Kuttner : Mutant - No Boundaries (with C L Moore) - Bypass to Otherness - Return to Otherness (1962) 3 copies
Kuttner times three 3 copies
Dream's End 3 copies
Time Enough 3 copies
Rite Of Passage 3 copies
Project 3 copies
The Bloodless Peril 2 copies
Trouble on Titan 2 copies
Near Miss 2 copies
Short Fiction 2 copies
Shock 2 copies
The Crystal Circe 2 copies
Iedomīgais robots : [stāsti] 2 copies
The Star Parade 2 copies
The Power And The Glory 2 copies
All is Illusion 2 copies
Time to Kill 2 copies
Avengers Of Space 2 copies
The Disinherited 2 copies
World's Pharaoh 2 copies
Suicide Squad 2 copies
Improbability 2 copies
The Elixir Of Invisibility 2 copies
Margin For Error 2 copies
The Little Things [short story] 2 copies
Rain Check 2 copies
We Kill People 2 copies
Wild Surmise 2 copies
World Without Air 2 copies
The Secret Of the Earth Star 2 copies
The Energy Eaters 2 copies
50 Miles Down 2 copies
Reverse Atom (short story) 2 copies
Man About Time (short story) 2 copies
A Comedy of Eras (short story) 2 copies
We Guard the Black Planet! 2 copies
Masquerade 2 copies
No Man’s World (short story) 2 copies
I Am Eden 1 copy
Chameleon Man 1 copy
Czego ci trzeba 1 copy
We Shall Come Back 1 copy
Promised Land 1 copy
Remember Tomorrow 1 copy
The Land of Time to Come 1 copy
Towers of Death 1 copy
Way of the Gods 1 copy
The Odyssey of Yiggar Throlg 1 copy
Lord of the Storm 1 copy
Grief of Bagdad 1 copy
Хогбены, гномы, демоны, а также роботы, инопланетяне и прочие захватывающие неприятности (2006) 1 copy
Dead Man's Tale 1 copy
The Man-eating Lizards — Author — 1 copy
Pragaištingas laivas 1 copy
Ο σκοτεινός κόσμος 1 copy
Barsoom vol. 35 1 copy
The Eater of Souls 1 copy
The Horror Bells 1 copy
Pete Manx Series 1 copy
The Original Fury Duology 1 copy
Hogben Stories 1 copy
Short Fiction Collection 1 copy
A God Named Kroo 1 copy
The Frog 1 copy
The Shining Man (novelette) 1 copy
Lögn eller mord 1 copy
Gli occhi di Medusa 1 copy
The Lifestone (novelette) 1 copy
Threshold (short story) 1 copy
The best of Kuttner 1 copy
The Skit-Tree Planet 1 copy
Seikkailujen sankareita 1 copy
The Invaders 1 copy
Wet Magic 1 copy
[as yet unknown] 1 copy
Fairy Chessmen 1 1 copy
Fairy Chessmen 2 1 copy
Ghost 1 copy
The Devil We Know 1 copy
Grab Bag 1 copy
Corpus Delicti 1 copy
Paradise Street 1 copy
Later Than You Think 1 copy
Trophy 1 copy
Tropic Hell 1 copy
Science is Golden! 1 copy
When the Earth Lived 1 copy
The Devil's Brood 1 copy
Bamboo Death 1 copy
The Wolf of Aragon 1 copy
The Curse of the Crocodile 1 copy
The Visitors 1 copy
Percy the Pirate 1 copy
The Dark Heritage 1 copy
World’s End 1 copy
Extrapolation 1 copy
The Room of Souls 1 copy
Before I Wake 1 copy
Associated Works
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time (1973) — Contributor — 993 copies, 12 reviews
Devils & Demons: A Treasury of Fiendish Tales Old & New (1991) — Contributor — 289 copies, 2 reviews
McSweeney's 45: Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Contributor — 119 copies, 6 reviews
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 9: Robots (1989) — Contributor — 118 copies, 2 reviews
Dogs of War: Ten Classic Stories of Men and Machines in War (2002) — Contributor — 116 copies, 1 review
Isaac Asimov Presents : The Golden Years of Science Fiction, 4th Series (1984) — Contributor — 101 copies, 1 review
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1992) — Contributor — 98 copies, 3 reviews
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Contributor — 97 copies, 1 review
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 9: Atlantis (1988) — Contributor — 92 copies, 1 review
They Came From Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1980) — Contributor — 91 copies, 1 review
Creatures from Beyond: Nine Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1975) — Contributor — 88 copies, 1 review
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Contributor — 82 copies
Famous Fantastic Mysteries: 30 Great Tales of Fantasy and Horror from the Classic Pulp Magazines Famous Fantastic Mysteries & Fantastic Novels (1991) — Contributor — 67 copies, 1 review
SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: 3rd Annual Volume (1958) — Contributor — 66 copies, 2 reviews
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 : The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1996) — Contributor — 64 copies, 2 reviews
Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (2019) — Contributor — 44 copies, 1 review
The Lure of Atlantis: Strange Tales from the Sunken Continent: 40 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Contributor — 37 copies
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (2007) — Contributor — 31 copies, 2 reviews
Weird Tales: A Facsimile of the World's Most Famous Fantasy Magazine: v. 1 (1978) — Contributor — 29 copies
Transformations: Understanding World History Through Science Fiction (1973) — Contributor — 26 copies
Science-Fiction Classics: The Stories That Morphed Into Movies (1999) — Contributor — 24 copies, 1 review
The Vampire Megapack: 27 Modern and Classic Vampire Stories (2012) — Contributor — 17 copies, 2 reviews
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Contributor — 16 copies, 1 review
Science Fiction Omnibus: The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949, 1950 (1952) — Contributor — 11 copies
Weird Tales Volume 28 Number 3, October 1936 — Contributor — 4 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 6, June 1938 — Contributor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 2, February 1938 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 1, July 1937 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 1, July 1938 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 33 Number 4, April 1939 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 29 Number 5, May 1937 — Contributor — 2 copies
Urania Millemondinverno 1991 — Contributor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 34 Number 5, November 1939 — Contributor — 1 copy
Graveyard Rats [2022 Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities TV episode] — Original story — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 3, September 1937 — Contributor — 1 copy
Μεγάλη Ανθολογία Ε.Φ. 1. (1934 - 1950) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Bellin, Edward J.
- Other names
- O'Donnell, Lawrence
Padgett, Lewis
Bellin, Edward J.
Edmonds, Paul
Gardner, Noel
Garth, Will (show all 17)
Hall, James
Hammond, Keith
Hastings, Hudson
Horn, Peter
Kent, Kelvin
Kenyon, Robert O.
Liddell, C. H.
Maepenn, Hugh
Morgan, Scott
Smith, Woodrow Wilson
Stoddard, Charles - Birthdate
- 1915-04-07
- Date of death
- 1958-02-04
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- short story writer
novelist
science fiction author
horror writer - Awards and honors
- Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award (2004)
- Relationships
- Moore, C. L. (wife)
Padgett, Lewis (gestalt entity) - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Disambiguation notice
- Kuttner and his wife C. L. Moore often collaborated. According to Wikipedia, pseudonyms used by him or by both included: Edward J. Bellin, Paul Edmonds, Noel Gardner, Will Garth, James Hall, Keith Hammond, Hudson Hastings, Peter Horn, Kelvin Kent, Robert O. Kenyon, C. H. Liddell, Hugh Maepenn, Scott Morgan, Lawrence O'Donnell, Lewis Padgett, Woodrow Wilson Smith, and Charles Stoddard.
Despite the fact that they often collaborated, they are nevertheless separate authors who should have separate author pages. Please do not combine one with the other, or the other's pseudonyms. Thank you. - Associated Place (for map)
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "The Graveyard Rats" by Henry Kuttner in The Weird Tradition (June 2024)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Quest of the Starstone" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore in The Weird Tradition (February 2024)
THE DEEP ONES: "I, the Vampire" by Henry Kuttner in The Weird Tradition (March 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "Home is the Hunter" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore in The Weird Tradition (December 2021)
Henry Kuttner in The Weird Tradition (June 2011)
Not an actual book, just a Sci-Fi short story in Name that Book (September 2010)
Reviews
The Dark World is an excellent example of the sort of rationalized fantasy that was the mainstay of John Campbell's Unknown magazine. (Unknown folded in 1943, and Kuttner's novella first appeared in Startling Stories in 1946.) The titular world is a parallel to Earth, and the occasional interactions between the two are the source of most of Earth's mythology and legends of the supernatural.
Ever since a wartime incident, Edward Bond has felt restless, out-of-place and vaguely uneasy. As it show more turns out, this is the result of his consciousness having been swtiched with his counterpart in the Dark World--Ganelon, a powerful member of the coven that controls, by way of sorcery derived from mutation, that parallel reality. In a sense, Bond has become Ganelon, but still has Bond's memories; thus his sense of the "wrongness" of his life on our Earth. With the self-interested and power-hungry Ganelon exiled to Earth, the morally upright Edward Bond was sent into Ganelon's body in the Dark World, where he switches sides in the power struggle there, becoming a leader of a rebellion to overthrow the power of the coven and create a free society.
Along with the variety of rationalizations for what we would consider magical or supernatural beliefs and creatures that are derived from the Dark World (gods of various pantheons, sorcery, werewolves, etc.), the other main source of interest in this story is following the first person point of view of Ganelon/Bond. This first-person/people point-of-view is somewhat unique, since the two-in-one characters have different ethical systems and memories, but, having been switched and combined, his/their potential motivations and actions in the Dark World become unpredictable. Will Ganelon prevail and succeed in becoming the ruler of the Dark World, or will Edward Bond return to lead the resistance to victory? Or will the two characters somehow remain merged and produce an unpredictable combination?
This inner battle plays out in the context of a nicely plotted science-fantasy adventure of the sort that Kuttner was a superior practitioner of in his time. All this holds up quite well (and should be especially interesting to anyone interested in the history of SF/fantasy), though it won't seem as original to modern readers as it must have to those who picked up the Summer 1946 issue of Startling Stories. Michael Moorcock and John Cawthorn included The Dark World (along with The Valley of the Flame, also from 1946) in their Fantasy: The 100 Best Books. show less
Ever since a wartime incident, Edward Bond has felt restless, out-of-place and vaguely uneasy. As it show more turns out, this is the result of his consciousness having been swtiched with his counterpart in the Dark World--Ganelon, a powerful member of the coven that controls, by way of sorcery derived from mutation, that parallel reality. In a sense, Bond has become Ganelon, but still has Bond's memories; thus his sense of the "wrongness" of his life on our Earth. With the self-interested and power-hungry Ganelon exiled to Earth, the morally upright Edward Bond was sent into Ganelon's body in the Dark World, where he switches sides in the power struggle there, becoming a leader of a rebellion to overthrow the power of the coven and create a free society.
Along with the variety of rationalizations for what we would consider magical or supernatural beliefs and creatures that are derived from the Dark World (gods of various pantheons, sorcery, werewolves, etc.), the other main source of interest in this story is following the first person point of view of Ganelon/Bond. This first-person/people point-of-view is somewhat unique, since the two-in-one characters have different ethical systems and memories, but, having been switched and combined, his/their potential motivations and actions in the Dark World become unpredictable. Will Ganelon prevail and succeed in becoming the ruler of the Dark World, or will Edward Bond return to lead the resistance to victory? Or will the two characters somehow remain merged and produce an unpredictable combination?
This inner battle plays out in the context of a nicely plotted science-fantasy adventure of the sort that Kuttner was a superior practitioner of in his time. All this holds up quite well (and should be especially interesting to anyone interested in the history of SF/fantasy), though it won't seem as original to modern readers as it must have to those who picked up the Summer 1946 issue of Startling Stories. Michael Moorcock and John Cawthorn included The Dark World (along with The Valley of the Flame, also from 1946) in their Fantasy: The 100 Best Books. show less
I am not sure where to start reviewing this mash-up of pulp science fiction and sword and planet (the planet is Earth) from the 25 year old Henry Kuttner. It truly is both dreadful and wonderful. Is it great literature? Absolutely not. Is it rollicking absurd fun for pulp fan boys? You bet.
It has everything - death rays, vampiric plague, beneficent alien, Conan-like villain, luscious lovelies (three, in fact, from different time periods) cold-hearted scientist who learns warmth, a laboratory show more (you must have a laboratory), a race against time to save the world and more!
There are low points. The absurdity of having a Carthaginian gladiator (absurd in itself) being called Scipio suggests Kuttner was beyond ignorance when it came to an understanding of Roman history. Kuttner, we can say with some surety, was no intellectual.
The plot is fast-moving and the characterisation stereotypical but we can summarise it briefly as noble alien seeks to make something of our world, screws up royally while trying to do so but then saves the world with a scientist genius when it faces a devastating existential threat.
There is a message that is very much of the mentality of the era of 'Things To Come' - the world drops its petty imperialist squabbles (this was, after all, written in 1940) and comes together deploying all its resources regardless of class or interest to defeat the threat.
Donald Trump might like to note that the world is saved by the close co-operation of the United States and China (there is a sympathetic if racially stereotyped Chinese character) and we could have fun comparing the handling of the vampiric energy plague with that of COVID-19 today.
Not a book to go out of your way to read but an enjoyable romp for fans of interwar American pulp. For the record, it is also available on Kindle under its original title "A Million Years to Conquer". show less
It has everything - death rays, vampiric plague, beneficent alien, Conan-like villain, luscious lovelies (three, in fact, from different time periods) cold-hearted scientist who learns warmth, a laboratory show more (you must have a laboratory), a race against time to save the world and more!
There are low points. The absurdity of having a Carthaginian gladiator (absurd in itself) being called Scipio suggests Kuttner was beyond ignorance when it came to an understanding of Roman history. Kuttner, we can say with some surety, was no intellectual.
The plot is fast-moving and the characterisation stereotypical but we can summarise it briefly as noble alien seeks to make something of our world, screws up royally while trying to do so but then saves the world with a scientist genius when it faces a devastating existential threat.
There is a message that is very much of the mentality of the era of 'Things To Come' - the world drops its petty imperialist squabbles (this was, after all, written in 1940) and comes together deploying all its resources regardless of class or interest to defeat the threat.
Donald Trump might like to note that the world is saved by the close co-operation of the United States and China (there is a sympathetic if racially stereotyped Chinese character) and we could have fun comparing the handling of the vampiric energy plague with that of COVID-19 today.
Not a book to go out of your way to read but an enjoyable romp for fans of interwar American pulp. For the record, it is also available on Kindle under its original title "A Million Years to Conquer". show less
This 1936 Weird Tales story has to be one of the best horror tales of the last century, an evil hybrid of Poe's 'Premature Burial' and Lovecraft's 'Pickman's Model', claustrophobic to the nth degree and not to be read by anyone late at night who fears enclosed spaces or asphyxiation and who wishes to sleep.
It can be read at https://www.redfez.net/fiction/horror-the-graveyard-rats-857
It can be read at https://www.redfez.net/fiction/horror-the-graveyard-rats-857
How can you not enjoy a book whose introduction contains: If you have arrived at this book and look to Kuttner for religious instruction, secular improvement, or moral renovation...you had best retreat to forms of literate navel-lint plucking with which the sophomores of the world bug each other?
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