So yesterday’s post about Henry Kuttner got me thinking about something that crosses my mind a lot.

What stories have fallen through the cracks and haven’t been reprinted that should have been?

I’ll start. Since Kuttner was the topic of yesterday’s post, one of his best stories is “We Kill People”, first published in the March 1946 issue of Astounding under the Lewis Padgett byline. It was included in the British edition of the magazine iin April 1949. It was in an anthology in the early fifties. Except for this Canadian outfit that seems to be publishing individual short stories in ebook, the story hasn’t seen the light of day since.

The story was published in Astounding at a time when the Kuttners were producing some of their best work under the Lewis Padgett pseudonym.  I tracked down a copy of it about a decade ago (give or take). It’s as good as their other work that was being published under the Padgett name. Better than some, I would argue.

Kuttner had some stories published during this time in the second adn third tier pulps that look like they were written a few years earlier and simply hadn’t found a home yet. “We Kill People” isn’t one of those.

Is the title that much of a turnoff? It is a dark story, darker than Kuttner’s usual dark tone.

But it hasn’t been included in any of Kuttner’s books. Neither have some of his other stories. The novellas in Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories are understandable. Novellas are a hard sell (They are probably my favorite length to read.)

So t he question I’m going to throw out is what stories do you think should be collected in book form t hat haven’t been? And don’t feel you have to cinfine your suggestions to the pulp era. Let’s say anything from before 2010 is fair game. (Yes, that’s an arbitrary cutoff, but I’m making up the rules here.)

Fell free to make suggestions in the comments. Please include anme fo story, author, where it has been published if you know. Any book publication from before, say, 1970, will be considered unreprinted.