Watcher at the Door
The Early Kuttner Volume Two
by Henry Kuttner
Foreword by Robert Madle
Introduction by Garyn G. Roberts
Edited by Stephen Haffner
Cover by Jon Arfstrom
Haffner Press First Edition
Description: This item is for one copy (of two available for sale) of a thick heavy hardback book published by Haffner Press in 2010. The copyright page states 'First Edition'. High quality book with sewn pages, buckram covered binding, headbands at top and bottom of spine, acid neutral paper. Edition was limited to 1,000 copies. Haffner Press is producing limited edition books of classic science fiction, fantasy and mystery from the days of the pulp magazines. Inscribed 'MEOW!' by editor and publisher Stephen Haffner on the title page next to the cat that is part of his imprint logo.
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From the publisher's website: 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.
Table of Contents:
• Foreword • essay by Robert A. Madle
• The Kaleidoscope Widens: Henry Kuttner's Evolving (and Disappearing) Terror Tales • essay by Garyn G. Roberts
• We Are the Dead • (1937) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• The Case of Herbert Thorp • (1937) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• The Transgressor • (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• Hydra • [Azathoth] • (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• Murder for Fun • non-genre • (1939) • novelette by Henry Kuttner
• The Watcher at the Door • (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• The Hunt • (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• "Telepathy Is News!" • (1939) • novelette by Henry Kuttner [as by Paul Edmonds]
• Death Is Where You Find It • non-genre • (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• The Curse of the Crocodile • (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner [as by Bertram W. Williams]
• The Misguided Halo • (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• The Devil's Brood • non-genre • (1939) • novelette by Henry Kuttner
• Corpse Castle • non-genre • (1939) • novelette by Henry Kuttner
• Towers of Death • (1939) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• Suicide Squad • (1939) • novelette by Henry Kuttner
• Death Has Three Sisters • non-genre • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner [as by Kelvin Kent]
• When New York Vanished • (1940) • novella by Henry Kuttner
• All Is Illusion • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• Beauty and the Beast • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• Pegasus • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• 50 Miles Down • (1940) • novelette by Henry Kuttner [as by Peter Horn]
• Improbability • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner [as by Paul Edmonds]
• The Room of Souls • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner [as by Keith Hammond]
• The Mad Virus • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner [as by Paul Edmonds]
• Dr. Cyclops • novelization • (1940) • novelette by Henry Kuttner
• Time to Kill • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• No Man's World • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• The Seal of Sin • (1940) • novelette by Henry Kuttner
• World Without Air • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• The Uncanny Power of Edwin Cobalt • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner [as by Noel Gardner]
Condition: Binding - fine, new and unread, only removed from shrinkwrap to be autographed. Dust jacket - fine, new, not price clipped, in dust jacket protector.
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