A Quiet Night in the Dark in LaPlata, Missouri, 1942

By Duane Spurlock

Lester Dent is known today among popular culture fans as the primary creator and writer of the character Doc Savage, hero of a monthly magazine published by Street & Smith from 1933 to 1949. Doc Savage -- Clark Savage, Jr. -- was the precursor to later popular heroes like Superman, Batman, James Bond, and Dirk Pitt. Dent's energetic prose for the Doc Savage stories always was published under a Street & Smith house name: Kenneth Robeson. So he was surprised when his editor informed him that Kenneth Robeson was the name of an actual person. And on a night in 1942, a surprise visitor shares with him an astonishing story that leads to deadly consequences in Dent's quiet rural home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Duane Spurlock
• Release date: Dec 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301914159

Duane Spurlock

Duane Spurlock is a writer, editor, and illustrator. He has worked in publishing -- both print- and Internet-based -- his entire career. A former Director of Content for Web-based newsletter publisher Emazing.com, he now works in communications in the health care field. A book he illustrated -- The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories, by Brian J. Showers -- won the 2008 Children of the Night Award from the international Dracula Society. (Duane says, "The glory all goes to Brian. I was in the right place at the right time.") He has written a number of short stories and novellas. He lives with his family in Kentucky, where they garden, tell stories, and occasionally whistle.

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A Quiet Night in the Dark in La Plata, Missouri, 1942

By Duane Spurlock

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A Quiet Night in the Dark in La Plata, Missouri, 1942

Blazes!

First he’d dropped his pipe, then he stepped on it, now it was broken.

All the fault of this meeting. No, Les thought, it’s my fault. I should be paying attention. But after years of lighting a pipe, why should I need to pay attention? It’s a habit by now.

Blazes.

This meeting. A note in the mail, out of the blue, I’ll be there such and such date and time. Les hated these meetings.

All right, another correction: He didn’t hate them—leastways, by the time they were over and his self-invited guest was gone, Les might grudgingly admit some enjoyment from the company and conversation; but getting prepared, waiting for the arrival—Les got fidgety and a bit anxious, and he hated the waiting and the anticipation.

It had always been this way for Les where this evening’s visitor was concerned.