And he may be forgotten in sword and sorcery circles but he's not a sword and sorcery author. She herself seemed to disclaim a lot of responsibility for the success of their collaborative work and didn't seek to have her name attached to everything that it's now attached to. Hope this sparks someone else's interest.Īgreed - he was long considered the far more major author over Moore and, while I'm not remotely disputing the validity of it because her known solo stuff is brilliant, Moore's relative star (she was always well-regarded individually) mostly rose in post-feminist revisionism. He's alo apparently writtten a Lovecraft inspired piece which is supposed to be very good although I've never read it. BTW his pen name when writing collaborative works with Moore was Lewis Padget. So do yourself a favour and keep an eye out for this author and his works, you might be pleasantly surpised. The 4 main Elak stories originally published in the late 30s and early 40s in the famous pulp magazine Weird Tales are: The Thunder In The Dawn, The Spawn Of Dagon, Beyond The Phoenix and Dragon Moon. I know a collection of Elak Of Atlantis series was published in the mid 1980s but generally these books are not easy to find. His Elak series also has several similarities to Moorcock's Elrik, although this may be more of a coincidence than anything else. Sounds a little like Leiber's Fahrd and the Grey Mouser hey? Well Kuttner was certainly influenced by Robert E Howard's Conan but also when writing SF in collaboration with his wife in turn influenced such illumniaries as Ray Bradbury, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Zleazny's Amber series. Elak is quite tall and alongside his much smaller sidekick they fight the good fight as it were. His famous character is Elak Of Atlantis who is a self-exiled adventurer and heir to a city on the lost continent of Altantis. I speak of course of one Henry Kuttner (1914 - 1958). Moore, author of female S&S heroine Jirel Of Joiry.
Recent correspondence with a member about Sword and Sorcery has reminded me of an author who was in fact the husband of the better known C.
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