Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Kuttner was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife, C.L Moore. Their work together spanned the 19
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Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Kuttner was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife, C.L Moore. Their work together spanned the 1940s and 1950s and most of the work was credited to pseudonyms, mainly Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O'Donnell.
Among Kuttner's most popular work were the Gallegher stories, published under the Padgett name, about a man who invented high-tech solutions to client problems (assisted by his insufferably egomaniacal robot) when he was drunk, only to be completely unable to remember exactly what he had built or why after sobering up. These stories were later collected in Robots Have No Tails. In her introduction to the 1973 Lancer Books edition, Moore stated that Kuttner wrote all the Gallegher stories himself.
A friend of Lovecraft's, Kuttner contributed several stories to the Cthulhu Mythos genre. Among these were
The Secret of Kralitz,
The Eater of Souls,
The Salem Horror,
The Invaders, and
The Hunt.
Henry Kuttner spent the middle 1950s getting his master's degree before dying of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1958.
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