The Watcher at the Door: The Early Kuttner, Volume Two

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword by Robert A. Madle Introduction by Garyn G. Roberts, Ph.D. We Are the Dead, Weird Tales, Apr 37 The Case of Herbert Thorp, Weird Tales, Nov 37 The Transgressor, Weird Tales, Feb 39 Hydra, Weird Tales, Apr 39 Murder for Fun, Thrilling Mystery, May 39 The Watcher at the Door, Weird Tales, May 39 The Hunt, Strange Stories, Jun 39 "Telepathy Is News!", Science Fiction, Jun 39 Death Is Where You Find It, Thrilling Mystery, Jul 39 The Curse of the Crocodile, Strange Stories, Aug 39 The Misguided Halo, Unknown, Aug 39 The Devil's Brood, Thrilling Mystery, Sep 39 Corpse Castle, Thrilling Mystery, Nov 39 Towers of Death, Weird Tales, Nov 39 Suicide Squad, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Dec 39 Death Has Three Sisters, Thrilling Mystery, Jan 40 When New York Vanished, Startling Stories, Mar 40 All Is Illusion, Unknown, Apr 40 Beauty and the Beast, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Apr 40 Pegasus, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, May 40 50 Miles Down, Fantastic Adventures, May 40 Improbability, Astonishing Stories, Jun 40 The Room of Souls, Strange Stories, Jun 40 The Mad Virus, Science Fiction, Jun 40 Dr. Cyclops, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Jun 40 Time to Kill, Strange Stories, Jun 40 No Man s World, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Aug 40 The Seal of Sin, Strange Stories, Aug 40 World Without Air, Fantastic Adventures, Aug 40 The Uncanny Power of Edwin Cobalt, Fantastic Adventures, October 40

About the Author

Before his marriage to (and subsequent collaborations with) Catherine L. Moore, Henry Kuttner was a frequent contributor to the pulp magazines that specialized in the weird, supernatural, horror, and science fiction genre. Beginning in 1936, with the minor classic The Graveyard Rats, Kuttner launched a steady stream of short stories aimed at Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Thrilling Mystery, and others. Writing for Weird Tales brought Kuttner into direct correspondence with that magazine s premier contributor. H. P. Lovecraft. Kuttner set several stories in Lovecraft s Cthulhu Mythos and two are presented in THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR: Hydra and The Hunt. At this point in his still-young career, Kuttner had cracked the science fiction market and was steadily publishing in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Science Fiction, and made his first sale to the new prestigious fantasy magazine, Unknown. In the course of writing the stories collected in this volume, Kuttner married Catherine Lucille Moore on June 7, 1940 (in New York with artist Virgil Finlay as Best Man). THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR is the second volume in a three-volume Early Kuttner set collecting many of Kuttner s earliest stories, most of which have never been reprinted.

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