Synopsis
History
First publication: Astounding, February 1945
Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett.
1946 RetroHugo finalist for best novelette.
Review
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
The Great SF Stories 7 (1945), edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, paperback, DAW Books, 1982-07-00
All of the stories in the Baldy series:
The Piper’s Son
Three Blind Mice
The Lion and the Unicorn
Beggars in Velvet
Humpty Dumpty
Mutant