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The Black Kiss

Henry Kuttner & Robert Bloch

First published June 1937
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Michael Leigh

As noted in wikipedia, the story was "written entirely by Bloch; Bloch co-credited Kuttner on the tale due to using the character Michael Leigh from "The Salem Horror"."

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1937 Cover Weird Tales, June 1937 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 678
1945 Cover Sea Kissed Utopian Publications Ltd. Collection 2
February 1945 Cover Sea Kissed Utopian Publications Ltd. Collection 2
July 1951 Cover Avon Fantasy Reader, #16 Avon Novels, Inc. MAGAZINE 3
February 1969 Cover The 2nd Avon Fantasy Reader Avon Anthology 117
1975 Cover The Third Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories Mayflower Anthology 62
1977 Cover Weird Legacies Star / W. H. Allen Anthology 114
May 1994 Cover Sea-Cursed: Thirty Terrifying Tales of the Deep Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 270
May 1995 Cover The Book of Iod Chaosium Collection 37
2019 Weird Tales (disc 4, part 1) Anthology 678|42906678
July 2020 Cover The Essential Robert Bloch Library and Archives Canada Collection |14
September 2023 Cover Horror at Sea: 15 Nautical Nightmares HorrorBabble Anthology |11
July 2025 The Black Kiss Project Gutenberg Chapbook
July 2025 Cover Black Cat Weekly, #201 Wildside Press MAGAZINE