Henry Kuttner

She spoke in a tongue dead a thousand years, and she had no memory for the man she faced. Yet he had held her tightly but a few short years before, had sworn eternal vengeance-when she died in his arms from an assassin's wounds. He had come back, though he knew what to expect. He had always come back to Klanvahr, since he had been hunted out of that ancient Martian fortress so many years ago. Not often, and always warily, for there was a price...

The man running through the forest gloom breathed in hot, panting gusts, pain tearing at his chest. Underfoot the crawling, pale network of tree-trunks lay flat upon the ground, and more than once he tripped over a slippery bole and crashed down, but he was up again instantly. He had no breath to scream. He sobbed as he ran, his burning eyes trying to pierce the shadows. Whispers rustled down from above. When the leaf-ceiling parted, a blaze of terribly...

From the renowned, Hugo-nominated titan of science fiction comes a collection of his best short stories. In seventeen classic stories, Henry Kuttner creates a unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm and angry aliens. These stories include "Mimsy Were the Borogoves"-the inspiration for New Line Cinema's major motion picture The Last Mimzy-as well as "Two-Handed Engine," "The Proud Robot," "The Misguided Halo,"...

World War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar. In the Dark World, Bond opposes the machinations of the dread lord Ganelon and his terrible retinue of werewolves, wizards, and witches, but all is not...

A story of the shocking revelation that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz.

Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four stories by Henry Kuttner: "War Gods of the Void", "Crypt-City of the Deathless One", "The Eyes of Thar", and "What Hath Me?".

A unique tale of the fourth dimension, a dangerous experiment in occultism, and the ghastly horror that reached back from that other plane of space

Jerry Vanning trailed the fugitive Callahan into the swampy wastes of Venus, Hell-Kingdom of the fabled War-Gods. He reached his goal walking with the robot-strides of a North-fever slave. Henry Kuttner was an editor and writer who held vast influence in the early days of genre publishing. His short stories were published in magazines such as Weird Tales, Astounding Science Fiction, and Startling Stories.

The sub-human denizens of Saturn's largest moon were said to be harmless-but when the ace director of Nine Planets Films was sent to photograph them, he was in for a shock!

A master of genre writing, Hugo-nominee Henry Kuttner grabs readers from page one in his first mystery. Psychoanalyst Dr. Michael Gray lives in San Francisco, where his thriving practice keeps him busy and his life uneventful.  All of this changes when he learns about the murder of Eleanor Pope from Howard Dunne, a troubled patient. The police think that the murder was the result of a bungled burglary, but Dr. Gray is certain that the killer will...