Henry Kuttner

She spoke in a tongue dead a thousand years, and she had no memory for 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. He had come back, though he knew what to expect. He had always come back to Klanvahr, since he had been hunted out of that ancient Martian fortress so many years ago. Not often, and always warily, for there was a price...

Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four stories by Henry Kuttner: "War Gods of the Void", "Crypt-City of the Deathless One", "The Eyes of Thar", and "What Hath Me?".

From "Avengers Of Space"-"Then he was in the temple, empty save for the alter and its dreadful tenant.As Shawn raced forward he felt a blast of power rush out to meet him, the mighty thoughts of Droom tearing at his brain.Blazing agony blinded him.A thousand fingers of steel seemed to be plucking, tearing, wrenching his head, pulling it apart bit by bit.The flames within the alter were blinding. Staggering,he kept on, hearing the bellowing of the...

Swords and Sorcery clash with riveting results in these four classic stories! When Robert E. Howard died in 1936, some of the greatest science-fiction and fantasy writers stepped into the void to pen amazing tales of swords and sorcery.  Weird Tales published these four stories by iconic author Henry Kuttner, perfect for fans of Conan the Barbarian, and vital for every fantasy reader.  Depicting a brutal world of swords and magic, with a hint of...

Three Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age" by Henry Kuttner. Featured stories: Where The World Is Quiet, The Secret Of Kralitz and The Ego Machine.

The man running through the forest gloom breathed in hot, panting gusts, pain tearing at his chest. Underfoot the crawling, pale network of tree-trunks lay flat upon the ground, and more than once he tripped over a slippery bole and crashed down, but he was up again instantly. He had no breath to scream. He sobbed as he ran, his burning eyes trying to pierce the shadows. Whispers rustled down from above. When the leaf-ceiling parted, a blaze of terribly...

Jerry Vanning trailed the fugitive Callahan into the swampy wastes of Venus, Hell-Kingdom of the fabled War-Gods. He reached his goal walking with the robot-strides of a North-fever slave. Henry Kuttner was an editor and writer who held vast influence in the early days of genre publishing. His short stories were published in magazines such as Weird Tales, Astounding Science Fiction, and Startling Stories.

Androids were obviously not human… so they claimed Excerpt Bradley 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 reached into his pocket, pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a few coins, and let the coins drop, as though by accident, to the airfoam carpet. "Oh-oh," he said, and immediately crouched down to recover...

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 undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar. In the Dark World, Bond opposes the machinations of the dread lord Ganelon and his terrible retinue of werewolves, wizards, and witches, but all is not...

Nick Banning was a man drowning in a land of far horizons, a land that had all the vigor sucked out of it ages ago by the Arizona sun. But it wasn't the blasting heat of an Arizona desert that bothered Nick-it was the heat of his own emotions, his desire for Sherry, the woman who had told him no. But Nick was winding up, faster and faster. He meant to have Sherry-or else.