The Story
Henry Kuttner was a prolific science fiction and horror author. His first story was published in 1936, and from there he wrote, under a set of pen names, a large number of short stories, novels, and comic strips, up until his early death in 1958. A lot of his work was penned in collaboration with his wife C. L. Moore, but she was only sometimes directly credited.
Kuttner was a friend of H. P. Lovecraft-he wrote a set of stories specifically set in the Cthulhu mythos-and while he was primarily a science fiction writer, there is a streak of Lovecraftian darkness running through the majority of his work. Even in his most optimistic tales, the characters often end up with more problems than they bargained for-or at least finish feeling no happier than before.
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Henry Kuttner was a prolific science fiction and horror author. His first story was published in 1936, and from there he wrote, under a set of pen names, a large number of short stories, novels, and comic strips, up until his early death in 1958. A lot of his work was penned in collaboration with his wife C. L. Moore, but she was only sometimes directly credited.
Kuttner was a friend of H. P. Lovecraft-he wrote a set of stories specifically set in the Cthulhu mythos-and while he was primarily a science fiction writer, there is a streak of Lovecraftian darkness running through the majority of his work. Even in his most optimistic tales, the characters often end up with more problems than they bargained for-or at least finish feeling no happier than before.
