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New York, NY: Ballantine Books. Very Good. 1962. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback (PBO) Ballantine Books no. F619 priced .50cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is some generalized light toning. "A friend of Lovecraft's as well as of Clark Ashton Smith, Kuttner contributed several stories to the Cthulhu Mythos genre, based on the writing of the former and added to, among other authors, by the latter. Among these were "The Secret of Kralitz" (Weird Tales, October 1936) , "The Eater of Souls" (Weird Tales, January 1937) , "The Salem Horror" (Weird Tales, May 1937) , "The Invaders" (Strange Stories, February 1939) and "The Hunt" (Strange Stories, June 1939). Kuttner added a few lesser-known deities to the Mythos, including Iod ("The Secret of Kralitz") , Vorvadoss ("The Eater of Souls") , the Hydra and Nyogtha ("The Salem Horror"). Critic Shawn Ramsey suggests that Abigail Prinn, the villain of "The Salem Horror", might have been intended by Kuttner to be a descendant of Ludvig Prinn, author of De Vermis Mysteriis—a book that appears in Kuttner's "The Invaders". " (from Wikipedia) .