Henry Kuttner

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  • Bibliography:
    61 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1947
  • Latest Book:
    May 2015
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Book List in Order: 61 titles

  • Exit the Professor

    in Mountain Magic
    • / Science Fiction
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    THE HILLS ARE ALIVE--WITH MUTANTS AND MAGIC.! Evil men and evil magic are poised to prey on the people of the hamlets and hollows of Appalachia: witches, demons, and criminals of more than one century. But the mountain folk have defenders, too, as...

  • Pile of Trouble

    in Mountain Magic
    • / Science Fiction
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    THE HILLS ARE ALIVE--WITH MUTANTS AND MAGIC.! Evil men and evil magic are poised to prey on the people of the hamlets and hollows of Appalachia: witches, demons, and criminals of more than one century. But the mountain folk have defenders, too, as...

  • Cold War

    in Mountain Magic
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    THE HILLS ARE ALIVE--WITH MUTANTS AND MAGIC.! Evil men and evil magic are poised to prey on the people of the hamlets and hollows of Appalachia: witches, demons, and criminals of more than one century. But the mountain folk have defenders, too, as...

  • See You Later

    in Mountain Magic
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    THE HILLS ARE ALIVE--WITH MUTANTS AND MAGIC.! Evil men and evil magic are poised to prey on the people of the hamlets and hollows of Appalachia: witches, demons, and criminals of more than one century. But the mountain folk have defenders, too, as...

  • Mutant

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    The Chronicles of the Baldies The Big Blow-up left huge radioactive sores (the graves of cities) all over the face of the Earth. In time, from some of the women who had been near these shunned areas, the first totally hairless babies began to be b...

  • Mask of Circe

    A psychiatrist travels to a world of magic and gods in this take on “Jason and the Argonauts” from the Hugo Award"nominated author of Earth’s Last Citadel.   Jay Seward remembers a former life in a land of magic, gods, and goddesses -- a...

  • Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner

  • The Book of Iod

    From one of the grand masters of science-fiction comes a collection inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. "[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds -- full of ideas."  -- Ray Bradbury Hugo-nominee and sci-fi luminary Henry Kuttner was part...

  • Clash by Night

    In this complex and profoundly imagined novella, exiles from Earth's atomic armageddon have journeyed to Venus. There, under the oceans, they have created competing civilizations called Keeps. Brian Scott, a Free Companion militiaman finds he must ch...



  • Mimzy and Other Stories

    THE LAST MIMZY IS THE IDEAL INTRODUCTION TO AN AUTHOR WHO WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME -- AND WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME. These seventeen classic stories create their own unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm...

  • Elak of Atlantis

    Swords and Sorcery clash with riveting results in these four classic stories! "[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds -- full of ideas."  -- Ray Bradbury When Robert E. Howard died in 1936, some of the greatest science-fiction and fantasy w...

  • Thunder Jim Wade

    Available for the first time... the complete saga of Thunder Jim Wade! Written by fantasy legend Henry Kuttner, this collection reprints all five adventures of Thunder Jim Wade from 1941. Long discounted as a Doc Savage clone, THUNDER JIM WADE: THE C...

  • Destination Infinity

    Far beneath the turbulent seas of Venus lived all that remained of humanity. Earth was gone -- a fast-fading atomic noval in the evening sky. But can Reed's daring plan to colonize the surface of Venus possibly work...? Originally published as "Fury....

  • The Time Axis

    Called to the end of time by a being known as The Face of Ea, four adventurers face a power that not even the science of that era could meet -- the nekron, negative matter, negative force, ultimate desctruction for everything it touched!...

  • The Well Of The Worlds

    Wen the curiously exotic millionairess Klai Ford started telling him about ghosts in a uranium mine, Sawyer knew he’d better be ready for anything in his investigations.But he didn’t count on being drawn into a passage between dimensions and toss...

  • The Dark World

    Henry Kuttner's Sword and Sorcery classic returns to print at last! 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 undeni...

  • Valley Of The Flame

  • Don't Look Now and Two Others

    Included in this volume are three of Henry Kuttner's classic science fiction tales: "Don't Look Now" (originally published in Startling Stories, March, 1948), in which invisible Martians secretly control the Earth ... or do they? "Gallegher Plus" (or...

  • Robots Have No Tails

    A complete collection of Galloway Gallegher stories from “one of the major names in science fiction” (The New York Times).   In this comprehensive collection, Henry Kuttner is back with Galloway Gallegher, his most beloved character in the s...



  • The Graveyard Rats and Other Stories

    Old Masson had a secret … One of Salem’s oldest and most decrepit cemeteries was put in Old Masson’s charge, but he didn’t mind -- he was more than sufficiently compensated by the treasures the newly departed wholeheartedly offered him. Unfor...

  • Fury

    Beneath the roiling seas and deadly atmosphere of Venus are the Keeps--fully enclosed cities and within those cities live descendants of the survivors who first harbored atomic energy to propel the spaceships that took them to Venus. In massive super...

  • Henry Kuttner

  • The Eyes of Thar

    She spoke in a tongue dead a thousand years, and she had no memory of 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....

  • What Hath Me?

    In a hundreds of years the Aesir had slain all who stood against them, could this one human manage to beat them?ExcerptThe thousand tiny eyes raced past him, glittering with alien ecstasy, shining brighter, ever brighter as they fed. He felt the life...

  • Absalom

    Locke was determined that Absalom would follow his rules, Absalom disagreed…ExcerptAt dusk Joel Locke came home from the university where he held the chair of psychonamics. He came quietly into the house, by a side door, and stood listening, a tall...

  • Android

    Androids were obviously not human… so they claimedExcerptBradley looked at the Director's head. His stomach tried' to crawl up into his throat. He felt suddenly dizzy. He knew that he was betraying himself, and that would be absolutely fatal.He rea...

  • The Proud Robot

    Gallegher's robot was a beautiful genius… with a talent for trouble...ExcerptThings often happened to Gallegher, who played at science by ear. He was, as he often remarked, a casual genius. Sometimes he'd start with a twist of wire, a few batteries...

  • The Red Gem of Mercury

  • Sword of Tomorrow



  • Thunder in the Void

    Contents: Raider of the Spaceways (Weird Tales, Jul 37) Avengers of Space (Marvel Science Stories, Aug 38) The Time-Trap (Marvel Science Stories, Nov 38) The Lifestone (Astonishing Stories, Feb 40) Monsters of the Atom (Super-Detective, Apr 41) Red G...

  • Atomic!

  • Dark Dawn

  • Beggars in Velvet

  • The Piper's Son

    More than cunning and planning and courage would be necessary to restore my people, the Medicis, to their rightful throne. We would need superb weapons -- and special skill to use them in such a glorious cause!...

  • Three Blind Mice

  • Baldy

    Contains all five books in the Baldy series. The Piper's SonThree Blind MiceThe Lion and the UnicornBeggars in VelvetHumpty Dumpty, and the extra additions from Mutant!...

  • Humpty Dumpty

  • A Gnome There Was

  • Beauty and the Beast



  • Spawn of Dagon

  • By These Presents

  • Cursed be the City

  • Call Him Demon

    In the 1920s a group of children staying at their grandmother's house realize that one of the uncles who lives there is not a real person, and only arrived there a few weeks before. He is able to exert some kind of mental influence over the adults of...

  • Don't Look Now

  • Endowment Policy

  • Dr. Cyclops

  • The Time Trap

    1939 Retro-Hugo Awards Best Novella nominee A titan of the genre, Henry Kuttner, weaves a spellbinding tale of a time-traveling archaeologist in one of the most fantastic adventures ever conceived. "[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds -- full ...

  • The Best of Henry Kuttner

    From the renowned, Hugo Award"nominated titan of science fiction comes a collection of his best short stories: “Kuttner is magic” (Joe R. Lansdale, author of Honky Tonk Samurai).   In seventeen classic stories, Henry Kuttner creates a...

  • Earth's Last Citadel

    Four WWII combatants travel to a distant and dangerous future in this novel by “two of the most revered names from [science fiction’s] Golden Age” (SFReviews.net).   During World War II, four bitter enemies are pulled forward a billion yea...



  • Man Drowning

    A powerful and violent crime fiction novel from an iconic author and “one of the major names in science fiction” (The New York Times).   Nick Banning was a man drowning in a land of far-off horizons, a land that had all the vigor sucked out ...

  • Murder of a Mistress

  • Murder of a Wife

  • The Murder of Ann Avery

  • The Murder of Eleanor Pope

    "[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds -- full of ideas." -- Ray Bradbury 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 t...

  • Prince Raynor

    Swords and Sorcery clash with riveting results in these classic stories! "[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds -- full of ideas."  -- Ray Bradbury When Robert E. Howard died in 1936, some of the greatest science-fiction and fantasy writer...

  • Planets That Time Forgot

    The dinosaurs are long gone on this world, but what if they existed elsewhere? Would they evolve to build modern civilizations? Overrun planets in primordial violence? Come to be worshipped as gods? What if they were to re-evolve in Earth's distant f...

  • The Creature From Beyond Infinity

    • / Action Adventure
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    Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915-February 4, 1958) was a science fiction author born in Los Angeles, California. As a young man he worked for a literary agency before selling his first story, "The Graveyard Rats," to Weird Tales in 1936. Kuttner was know...

  • The Ego Machine

    • / Science Fiction
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    When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology - don't do it! After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible? Henry Kuttner truly amazes with his fantastic masterpiece, the Eg...

  • The Secret Of Kralitz

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    I awoke from profound sleep to find two black-swathed forms standing silently beside me, their faces pale blurs in the gloom. As I blinked to clear my sleep-dimmed eyes, one of them beckoned impatiently, and suddenly I realized the purpose of this...

  • Where The World Is Quiet

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

    The life of an anthropologist is no doubt filled much of the time with the monotonous routine of carefully asse...

  • The Graveyard Rats

    in The Unspeakable People
    • / Horror
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    Many of the earliest ghost stories and tales of hauntings, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editio...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Henry Kuttner has published 61 books.

Henry Kuttner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Planets That Time Forgot, was published in May 2015.

The first book by Henry Kuttner, Exit the Professor, was published in January 1947.

No. Henry Kuttner does not write books in series.
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