Henry Kuttner Part 3 1942-1943

If you missed the last part…

The team of Kuttner-Moore hit their stride in 1942, making most of their income writing fantastic literature. The authors alone and together were in virtually every issue of Astounding after August 1942. As Lewis Padgett, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore or Lawrence O’Donnell. they sometimes appeared twice in the same issue. This speaks to their talent though we must acknowledge that John W. Campbell was feeling the pinch for authors when most of his top ranked writers joined the war effort. (Asimov, de Camp, Heinlein, Hubbard and others.)

The Kuttners nicely filled that void. Sadly, Unknown Worlds would meet its end in 1943, cutting off the best market for Kuttner Fantasy. He/They wrote the first Gallagher stories at this time. This series would be reprinted heavily in SF anthologies.

Henry didn’t just write for JWC. He sold to a wide range of Pulps including Argosy, Thrilling Adventures, Thrilling Mystery, even a few to Weird Tales. It is during this time Henry began writing longer lead forThrilling Wonder Stories.

1942

“Design For Dreaming” (Unknown, February 1942)

“Swamp Magic” (Thrilling Adventures, February 1942)

“Later Than You Think” (Fantastic Adventures, March 1942)

“Silent Eden” (Startling Stories, March 1942)

“The Burning Corpse” (Thrilling Mystery, March 1942)

“Hell Ship” (Thrilling Adventures, March 1942) as Keith Hammond

“Murder Trail” (Thrilling Adventures, March 1942)

“Soiree For Slaughter” (Thrilling Detective, March 1942)

“The Infinite Moment” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1942)

“Battle Stations” (Thrilling Adventures, April 1942)

“Masquerade” (Weird Tales, May 1942)

“False Dawn” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1942)

“The Crystal Circe” (Astonishing Stories, June 1942)

“Dames Is Poison” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1942) as Kelvin Kent

“The Elephant’s Enemies” (Thrilling Adventures, June 1942)

“The Diamonds of Death” (Thrilling Mystery, July 1942)

“The Medieval Murders” (The Phantom Detective, July 1942) as Robert Wallace

“Deadlock” (Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1942) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

“Secret of the Earth Star” (Amazing Stories, August 1942)

“War-Gods of the Void” (Planet Stories, Fall 1942)

“The Twonky” (Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1942) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett. This story was made into a motion picture in 1953.

“Curse of the Cobra” (Thrilling Mystery, September 1942)

“Compliments of the Author” (Unknown, October 1942) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

“Thunder in the Void” (Astonishing Tales, October 1942)

“We Guard the Black Planet” (Super Science Stories, November 1942)

“Night of the Gods” (Astonishing Stories, December 1942) as Paul Edmonds

“Piggy Bank” (Astounding Science-Fiction, December 1942) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

“Too Many Cooks” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1942)

“False Face” (Spicy Mystery Stories, December 1942) as Walton Grey – reprint of “Hell’s Archangel” (1938)

1943

“Nothing But Gingerbread Left” (Astounding Science-Fiction, January 1943) with C. L. Moore as Henry Kuttner

“Time Locker” (Astounding Science-Fiction, January 1943) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

“There Was an Island” (Argosy, January 1943)

“Blood on the Swastika” (Thrilling Adventures, January 1943)

“Mimsy Were the Borogoves” (Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett – filmed as The Last Mimsy in 2007.

“Blue Ice” (Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943)

“Soldiers of Space” (Astonishing Stories, February 1943)

“Wet Magic” (Unknown Worlds, February 1943)

“Better Than One” (Captain Future, Spring 1943)

“Clash By Night” (Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1943) with C. L. Moore as Lawrence O’Donnell

“Shock” (Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1943) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

“Under Your Spell” (Weird Tales, March 1943)

“Red Oil” (Thrilling Adventures, March 1943)

“Corpus Delicti” (Astounding Science-Fiction, April 1943)

“Open Secret” (Astounding Science-Fiction, April 1943) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

“No Greater Love” (Unknown Worlds, April 1943)

“River of Wrath” (Thrilling Adventures, May 1943)

Earth’s Last Citadel (Argosy, April May June July 1943) with C. L. Moore

“Volluswen” (Science Fiction Stories, April 1943)

“Ghost” (Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1943) with C. L. Moore

“Reader, I Hate You!” (Super Science Stories, May 1943)

“Tell No Tales” (Exciting Detective, Summer 1943)

“The World Is Mine” (Astounding Science-Fiction, June 1943) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

“Problem in Ethics”  (Science Fiction Stories, July 1943)

“Endowment Policy” (Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1943) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

“Crypt-City of the Deathless One” (Planet Stories, Winter 1943)

“Death on the Island” (Thrilling Adventures, September 1943)

“The Proud Robot” (Astounding Science-Fiction, October 1943) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

“Gallegher Plus” (Astounding Science-Fiction, November 1943) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

“Blood of the Desert” (Thrilling Adventures, November 1943)

“Music Hath Charms” (Startling Stories, Winter 1943-1944)

“The Iron Standard” (Astounding Science-Fiction, December 1943) with C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett

Next time… 1944-1945…