Kenneth J. Sterling (1920–1995), was an American science fiction author best known for his collaboration with Howard Phillips Lovecraft in the short story In the Walls of Eryx. He was a young man when when he first crosse dpaths with Lovecraft in 1934. In January of 1936 Sterling shared his draft of a story with H.P. Lovecraft while he was a medical student in Providence. The story was rewritten and published after Lovecraft’s death in the Weird Tales of October 1939. This collaboration would be Lovecraft's only "interplanetary science fiction story.