Henry Kuttner

Henry Kuttner
Birth Date	April 7, 1915
Death Date	February 4, 1958
Nationality	American

Henry Kuttner was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

A friend of Lovecraft's as well as of Clark Ashton Smith, Kuttner contributed several stories to the Cthulhu Mythos genre invented by those authors (among others).

Kuttner added a few lesser-known deities to the Mythos, including Iod ("The Secret of Kralitz"), Vorvadoss ("The Eater of Souls"), 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 De Vermis Mysteriis—a book created by Robert Bloch that appears in Kuttner's "The Invaders".

Price points out in his introduction to The Book of Iod: Ten Tales of the Mythos that "Henry Kuttner's own private corner of the Cthulhu Mythos was, then, apparently derived in about equal measure from Lovecraft, Bloch, Zoroastrianism, and Theosophy."

Bibliography

• "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)
• "The Hunt" (Strange Stories, June 1939)
• Crypt of Cthulhu 5, No 7 (whole number 41) (Lammas 1986; edited by Robert M. Price) was a special Henry Kuttner issue.
  • "The Secret of Kralitz"
  • "The Eater of Souls"
  • "The Salem Horror"
  • "The Jest of Droom-Avesta"
  • "The Frog"
  • "Hydra"
  • "Bells of Horror"
  • "The Hunt"
• The Book of Iod: Ten Tales of the Mythos (Chaosium, 1995, edited by Robert M. Price)
  • Introduction by Robert M. Price
  • "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"
  • "The Hunt"
  • "The Black Kiss" by Kuttner and Robert Bloch (Bloch co-credited Kuttner on the tale due to using the character Michael Leigh from "The Salem Horror".)
  • "Beneath the Tombstone" by Robert M. Price
  • "Dead of Night" by Lin Carter