A brief, poetic story about an alien city—and a metallic doom! (You can tell Kuttner was reading Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith at the time he wrote it.)

Under normal circumstances, a man must face reality to be a sane, well-balanced citizen. But not in that city! Any man who faced and understood the reality of the place was insane!

"Recognized as a leading author of stories published during the Golden Age of science fiction (many in collaboration with his wife, Catherine L. Moore), Henry Kuttner also wrote stories for the horror pulp magazines of the late 30s and early 40s. Terror in the House assembles more than forty rare works from the fragile pages of "Weird Tales" and other pulp magazines of the day. Several tales are set in H.P. Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos" while others are examples of the "weird menace" stories (where a seemingly supernatural plot is resolved with a commonplace ending). Also included are Kuttner's first science fictions stories and his few forays into the "spicy" pulps. Richard Matheson provides a preface and Dr. Garyn G. Roberts' lengthy introduction examines Kuttner's background and influences for these early works"--Dust jacket flap.

From one of the grand masters of science-fiction comes a collection inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. "[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas." —Ray Bradbury Hugo-nominee and sci-fi luminary Henry Kuttner was part of the Lovecraft Circle, submitting plot ideas and draft manuscripts to H.P. Lovecraft himself, and Kuttner played an important role in developing the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the seminal works of the genre. The Book of Iod is a short story collection containing ten Cthulhu Mythos stories.These stories include: The Secret of Kralitz The Eater of Souls The Salem Horror The Just of Droom-avista Spawn of Dagon The Invaders The Frog Hydra Bells of Horror The Hunt

Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.