Editing Frank Belknap Long (section)

=== 1940s===

In pulps such as ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'' and ''Startling Stories'' during the 1940s, Long sometimes wrote using the pseudonym "Leslie Northern". What Long characterized as a "minor disability" kept him out of [[World War II]] and writing full-time during the early 1940s.

Long reportedly ghost-wrote two, possibly three, of the [[Ellery Queen]] Jr novels (mentioned in correspondence with [[August Derleth]]) but did not identify the titles. It is believed that the two are ''The Black Dog Mystery'' (1941) and ''The Golden Eagle Mystery'' (1942). The third may have been ''The Mystery of the Golden Butterfly'', which was never published. (This volume is mentioned as Long's on the rear panel of'' [[The Horror from the Hills]]'' and on the rear flap of'' [[The Rim of the Unknown]]'').<ref>{{Cite web |title=Queen's Bureau of Investigation: the Casebook - page 16 |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/QBI_16.html |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=queen.spaceports.com}}</ref>

He wrote [[comic book]]s in the 1940s, including horror stories for ''[[Adventures Into the Unknown]]'' (ACG).<ref>{{cite web |title=Adventures into the Unknown – Worlds of Weird |url=https://worldsofweird.com/tag/adventures-into-the-unknown/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923015306/https://worldsofweird.com/tag/adventures-into-the-unknown/ |archive-date=September 23, 2016 |access-date=September 22, 2016}}, [http://www.comics.org/issue/7014/]</ref> Long contributed several original scripts to this comic's early issues, as well as an adaptation of Walpole's ''[[The Castle of Otranto]]''. He authored scripts for ''[[Planet Comics]]'', ''[[Superman]]'', ''[[Congo Bill]]'', [[DC Comics|DC]]'s [[Golden Age (comics)|Golden Age]] ''[[Green Lantern]]'', and the [[Fawcett Comics]] ''[[Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel]]''. He worked in the 1940s as a script-reader for  [[Twentieth Century Fox]]<ref name="autogenerated1946"/> Long wrote crime and [[weird menace]] stories for ''Ten Gang Mystery'' and other magazines.

During the 1940s, Long lived for a period in California{{where|date=September 2023}}.

Long credited [[Theodore Sturgeon]], whom he met several times in the mid-1940s, as being instrumental in getting one of his middle-period stories, "A Guest in the House", produced on CBS-TV in 1954.<ref>''The Early Long'', Doubleday, 1975, p.xxviii</ref>

In 1946, Arkham House published Long's first collection of supernatural fiction,'' [[The Hounds of Tindalos]]'', which collected 21 of his best tales from the previous twenty years of magazine publication. It featured works which had appeared in such pulps as ''[[Weird Tales]]'', ''[[Astounding Stories]]'', ''[[Super Science Stories]]'', [[Unknown (magazine)|Unknown]], ''[[Thrilling Wonder Stories]]'', ''[[Dynamic Science Fiction]]'', ''[[Startling Stories]]'',  and others. In "The Man from Time", a time-traveller from the future has an encounter with writer [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]].

His later science fiction works include the story collection ''John Carstairs, Space Detective'' (1949) about a 'botanical detective', and the novels ''Space Station 1'' (1957), ''Mars is My Destination'' (1962) and ''It Was the Day of the Robot'' (1963).
[[File:Avon Fantasy Reader 13.jpg|thumb|right|Long's 1935 ''[[Weird Tales]]'' story "The Body-Masters" was reprinted in 1950 as "The Love-Slave and the Scientists".]]