David H Keller


(David Henry Keller)
USA flag (1880 - 1966)

Almost from his first appearance in the pages of Amazing Stories, David H. Keller, M.D., (December 23, 1880-July 13, 1966) played a seminal role in the development of modern science fiction. Written in a skillful, disarmingly straightforward style capable of startling force, his tales of everyday humanity facing bizarre and often nightmarish tomorrows anticipated the concerns of science fiction's "Golden Age" by a full decade. A practicing psychiatrist, Dr. Keller brought a new depth to the science fiction pulps of the 1920s and '30s with his wry probings of the psychological and sociological implications of the future. Occasionally quaint, always interesting and often compelling, the "Kelleryarns"--as admiring readers came to call them--influenced a new generation of writers, including such giants of the genre as Stanley G. Weinbaum.
 
 
Novels
   The Conquerors (1929)
   The Human Termites (1929)
   The Thought Projector (1929)
   The Evening Star (1930)
   The Metal Doom (1931)
   The Time Projector (1931) (with David Lasser)
   The Waters of Lethe (1937)
   The White Sybil (1939)
   The Devil and the Doctor (1940)
   The Abyss (1948)
   The Eternal Conflict (1949)
   The Homunculus (1949)
   The Lady Decides (1950)
   A Figment of a Dream (1962)
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Collections
   Life Everlasting (1934)
   At the Sign of the Burning Hart (1938)
   Tales from Underwood (1939)
   The Thing in the Cellar (1940)
   The Folsom Flint (1969)
   The Street of Queer Houses (1976)
   The Last Magician (1978)
   Science Fiction Gems, Volume 9 (2015) (with others)
   The Science Fiction Crime Megapack (2017) (with others)
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Anthology series
Ultimate... (with Megan Miller and Byron Preiss)
   The Ultimate Dracula (1991)
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Anthologies containing stories by David H Keller
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The Horned God (2022)
Weird Tales of the Great God Pan
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 32)
edited by
Michael Wheatley
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Doorway to Dilemma (2019)
Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 9)
edited by
Mike Ashley
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Below the Stairs (2017)
Tales from the Cellar
edited by
Steve Dillon

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