Raymond Z. Gallun

Raymond Zinke Gallun was an American science fiction writer, born in 1911 and active in the magazines for much of his life. He began publishing in the early 1930s, in the years when the pulp magazines were building the field. His stories are short, direct adventures about people meeting strange worlds and strange minds. He died in 1994. Terror Out of the Past is one of his early magazine adventures, and it shows the plain, quick style readers of the period enjoyed. His work is a good way into the early years of American science fiction.