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    The Salem Horror: A Cthulhu Mythos Story
    The Salem Horror: A Cthulhu Mythos Story
    The Salem Horror: A Cthulhu Mythos Story
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    The Salem Horror: A Cthulhu Mythos Story

    By Henry Kuttner and Eileen Hammond

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    A ghastly horror from the witchcraft days of three centuries ago reared its dreadful form in the Witch Room of that old house in Derby Street.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlien Ebooks
    Release dateMar 28, 2022
    ISBN9781667600758
    The Salem Horror: A Cthulhu Mythos Story

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      The Salem Horror - Henry Kuttner

      Table of Contents

      COPYRIGHT NOTE

      INTRODUCTION, by Eileen Hammond

      THE SALEM HORROR, by Henry Kuttner

      COPYRIGHT NOTE

      This classic work has been reformatted for optimal reading

      in ebook format on multiple devices. Punctuation and

      spelling has been modernized where necessary.

      Copyright © 2022 by Alien Ebooks.

      All rights reserved.Copyright © 1937 by Henry Kuttner.

      Originally published in Weird Tales, May 1937.

      INTRODUCTION, by Eileen Hammond

      Henry Kuttner wore many different hats as a writer. Science fiction writer? Check. Mystery writer? Check. Adventure writer? Check. War story writer? Check. He even worked as a literary agent (where he discovered another major talent—Leigh Brackett.)

      The facts are these: Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915. He worked part time for his uncle, Laurence D’Orsay, at a Los Angeles-based literary agency. All the time he wanted to be a writer, and it wasn’t long before he sold his first story: The Graveyard Rats, which appeared in Weird Tales in 1936.

      Kuttner was part of the Lovecraft Circle, a group of writers and fans who corresponded with H.P. Lovecraft, and it was through this group that he met his future wife, fellow author C.L. Moore. They often collaborated throughout the 1940s and 1950s, publishing work under pseudonyms such as Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O’Donnell. Other pseudonyms included Edward J. Bellin, Paul Edmonds, Noel Gardner, Will Garth, James Hall, Keith Hammond, Hudson Hastings, Peter Horn, Kelvin Kent, Robert O. Kenyon, C. H. Liddell, Hugh Maepenn, Scott Morgan, Lawrence O’Donnell, Lewis Padgett, Woodrow Wilson Smith, and Charles Stoddard.

      Kuttner died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1958. It was a tragic loss for the field.

      * * * *

      The Salem Horror was originally published in the May 1937 issue of Weird Tales.

      THE SALEM HORROR,

      by Henry Kuttner

      When Carson first noticed the sounds in his cellar, he ascribed them to the rats. Later he began to hear the tales which were whispered by the superstitious Polish

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