KINGDOM OF ENGLAND AUTHOR · LARGE TYPE · WESTERN
H. A. Derosso
Also known as: H. A. DeRosso, H.A DeRosso
Between 1952 and 1954, John Raymond published four digest-size science fiction and fantasy magazines. Raymond was an American publisher of men's magazines who knew little about science fiction, but the field's rapid growth and a distributor's recommendation prompted him to pursue the genre. Raymond consulted and then hired Lester del Rey to edit the first magazine, Space Science Fiction, which appeared in May 1952. Following a second distributor's suggestion that year, Raymond launched Science Fiction Adventures, which del Rey again edited, but under an alias. In 1953, Raymond gave del Rey two more magazines to edit: Rocket Stories, which targeted a younger audience, and Fantasy Magazine, which published fantasy rather than science fiction.
England had been waiting, working, suffering and sometimes dying for D-Day for exactly four years.
— from '44
Most acclaimed
Great Stories of the American West
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Riders of the shadowlands
The collection opens with "Killer", the story of a retired sheriff and the code of honour that drives him into a showdown with an escaped convict. Festering hatred is "The Ways Of Vengeance" when things take an unusual turn thanks to an old man and a little girl. The "Witch" is a Mimbreno Apache girl who has been cast out by her tribe for saving the life of an owl, a symbol of misfortune to the Apaches. And in "Endless Trail" town-tamer Dan Burkett longs to finally settle down to a married life - but first he must deal with his own private devils.