Author:David Henry Keller

David Henry Keller
(1880–1966)

American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror. He was the first psychiatrist to write for the genre, and was most often published as David H. Keller, MD. He also used the pseudonyms Monk Smith, Matthew Smith, Amy Worth, Henry Cecil, Cecilia Henry, and Jacobus Hubelaire.

David Henry Keller

Works

Novels

  • The Human Termites (1929)
    • Part 1 (September 1929)
    • Part 2 (October 1929)
    • Part 3 (November 1929)
  • The Conquerors (1929-30)
    • Part 1 (December 1929)
    • Part 2 (January 1930)
  • The Evening Star (1930)
    • Part 1 (April 1930)
    • Part 2 (May 1930)
  • The Time Projector (1931)
  • The Metal Doom (1932)
    • "The Metal Doom" in Amazing Stories, 07 (02) (May 1932) (part 1 of 3)
    • "The Metal Doom" in Amazing Stories, 07 (03) (June 1932) (part 2 of 3)
    • "The Metal Doom" in Amazing Stories, 07 (04) (July 1932) (part 3 of 3)
  • Life Everlasting (1934)
  • The Devil and the Doctor (1940)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2036 due to Renewal R418709 (renewed 4 Oct 1967)
  • The Abyss (1948)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2044 due to Renewal R643584 (renewed 28 Oct 1976)
  • The Eternal Conflict (1949)
  • The Homunculus (1949)
  • The Lady Decides (1950)

Short works

Taine universe

Taine
  • The Feminine Metamorphosis (1929)
  • Euthanasia Limited (1929)
  • A Scientific Widowhood (1930)
  • Burning Water (1930)
  • Menacing Claws (1930)
  • The Cerebral Library (1931)
  • The Tree of Evil (1934)
  • Island of White Mice (1935)
  • Wolf Hollow Bubbles (1934)
  • Hands of Doom (1947)
The Menace
  • The Menace (1928)
  • The Gold Ship (1928)
  • The Tainted Flood (1928)
  • The Insane Avalanche (1928)

Wing Loo

  • The Ambidexter (1931)
  • The Cerebral Library (1931)
  • The Steam Shovel (1931)

Tales from Cornwall

  • The Oak Tree (1969)
  • The Sword and the Eagle (1969)
  • Raymond the Golden (1969)
  • The Thirty and One (1938) [also as by David H. Keller]
  • The Battle of the Toads (1929)
    • "The Battle of the Toads" in Weird Tales, 14 (4) (October 1929)
  • The Tailed Man of Cornwall (1929)
    • "The Tailed Man of Cornwall" in Weird Tales, 14 (5) (November 1929)
  • No Other Man (1929)
  • The Bride Well (1930)
  • Feminine Magic (1970)
  • Key to Cornwall (1941)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2037 due to Renewal R426536 (renewed 17 Jan 1968)

Non-series fiction

  • "The Little Husbands" in Weird Tales, 12 (1) (July 1928)
  • "The Revolt of the Pedestrians" in Amazing Stories, 02 (11) (February 1928)
  • "The Yeast Men" in Amazing Stories, 03 (01) (April 1928)
  • "A Biological Experiment" in Amazing Stories, 03 (03) (June 1928)
  • "Unlocking the Past" in Amazing Stories, 03 (06) (September 1928)
  • "The Dogs of Salem" in Weird Tales, 12 (3) (September 1928)
  • Stenographer's Hands (1928)
  • "The Psychophonic Nurse" in Amazing Stories, 03 (08) (November 1928)
  • "The Jelly-Fish" in Weird Tales, 13 (1) (January 1929)
  • "The Damsel and Her Cat" in Weird Tales, 13 (4) (April 1929)
  • The Thought Projector (1929)
  • "The Worm" in Amazing Stories, 03 (12) (March 1929)
  • The Threat of the Robot (1929)
  • "The Flying Fool" in Amazing Stories, 04 (04) (July 1929)
  • White Collars (1929)
  • The Bloodless War (1929)
  • The Boneless Horror (1929)
  • "The Eternal Professors" in Amazing Stories, 04 (05) (August 1929)
  • "Air Lines" in Amazing Stories, 04 (10) (January 1930)
  • "A Twentieth Century Homunculus" in Amazing Stories, 04 (11) (February 1930)
  • The Flying Threat (1930)
  • "Creation Unforgivable" in Weird Tales, 15 (4) (April 1930)
  • "The Ivy War" in Amazing Stories, 05 (02) (May 1930)
  • The Moon Rays (1930)
  • Boomeranging 'Round the Moon (1930)
  • Service First (1931)
  • The Seeds of Death (1931)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2027 due to Renewal R237314 (renewed 28 May 1959)
  • The Sleeping War (1931)
  • "Free as the Air" in Amazing Stories, 06 (03) (June 1931)
  • Half-Mile Hill (1931)
  • "The Rat Racket" in Amazing Stories, 06 (08) (November 1931)
  • "The Hidden Monster," in Oriental Stories (Summer 1932, vol. 2, no. 3)
  • "The Pent House" in Amazing Stories, 06 (11) (February 1932)
  • "The Thing in the Cellar" in Weird Tales, 19 (3) (March 1932)Copyright Renewed: Steinberg Press, Inc. R250136)
  • The Last Magician (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028 due to Renewal R253028 (renewed 11 Feb 1960)
  • No More Tomorrows (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2027 due to Renewal R253027 (renewed 11 Feb 1960)
  • "Unto Us a Child is Born" in Amazing Stories, 08 (04) (July 1933)
  • "The Tree Terror" in Amazing Stories, 08 (06) (October 1933)
  • A Piece of Linoleum (1933)
  • Life Everlasting (1934)
  • The Solitary Hunters
    • "The Solitary Hunters" in Weird Tales, 23 (1) (January 1934) (part 1 of 3)
    • "The Solitary Hunters" in Weird Tales, 23 (2) (February 1934) (part 2 of 3)
    • "The Solitary Hunters" in Weird Tales, 23 (3) (March 1934) (part 3 of 3)
  • "The Lost Language" in Amazing Stories, 08 (09) (January 1934)
  • The Literary Corkscrew (1934)
  • The Dead Woman (1934)
  • Binding Deluxe (1934)
  • The Doorbell (1934)
  • Rider by Night (1934)
  • Men of Avalon (1935)
  • One-Way Tunnel (1935)
  • The Life Detour (1935)
  • The Living Machine (1935)
  • "The White City" in Amazing Stories, 10 (02) (May 1935)
  • "Tiger Cat" in Weird Tales, 30 (4) (October 1937)
  • The Fireless Age (1937)
  • "Valley of Bones" in Weird Tales, 31 (1) (January 1938)
  • The Mother (1938)
  • "Dust in the House" in Weird Tales, 32 (1) (July 1938)
  • The Moon Artist (1939)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2035 due to Renewal R450306 (renewed 2 Dec 1968)
  • No More Friction (1939)
  • "Lords of the Ice" in Weird Tales, 34 (6) (December 1939)
  • The Toad God (1939)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2035 due to Renewal R392629 (renewed 22 Aug 1966)
  • The Goddess of Zion (1941)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2037 due to Renewal R425142 (renewed 26 Dec 1967)
  • Calypso Island (1941)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2037 due to Renewal R450305 (renewed 2 Dec 1968)
  • Speed Will Be My Bride (1941)
  • The Red Death (1941)
  • The Pit of Doom (1942)
  • "Death of the Kraken" in Weird Tales, 36 (4) (March 1942)
  • "The Bridle" in Weird Tales, 36 (7) (September 1942)
  • "The Golden Bough" in Weird Tales, 36 (8) (November 1942)
  • The Growing Wall (1942)
  • "Bindings Deluxe" in Weird Tales, 36 (9) (January 1943)
  • The Face in the Mirror (1947)
  • Heredity (1947)
  • The Perfumed Garden (1948)
  • The Door (1949)
  • The Final War (1949)
  • Chasm of Monsters (1951)
  • The Plot Machine (1951)
  • The Star (1952)
  • Fingers in the Sky (1952)
  • Sarah (1952)
  • The Folsom Flint (1952)
  • The God Wheel (1952)
  • The Opium Eater (1952)
  • The Question (1953)
  • The Golden Key (1953)
  • In Memoriam (1962)
  • Figment of a Dream (1962)
  • The Twins (1969)
  • The Landslide (1969)
  • The House Without Mirrors (1980)
  • The Purblind Prophet (1999) with Paul Spencer
  • The Beautiful Lady (2000)
  • Chapter 2 of Cosmos (1933)

Poetry

  • The Night The Red and Blue (1899)
  • Undo Everlasting (1902)
  • L'Envoi (1902)
  • A Melody (1902)
  • A Mother's Song (1902)
  • "Modern Science." in: Kotan September, 1948, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Non-Fiction

  • The Med-Lee: News Digest of the 9th Medical Battalion (1941)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed.

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