Norton, Alden H
Entry updated 28 February 2025. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1903-1987) US SF Magazine editor who also published two stories beginning with "Blood on the Goose" in The Mysterious Wu Fang for September 1935. His magazine credits include Astonishing Stories (seven issues, November 1941 to April 1943), the companion publication Super Science Stories (seven issues, January 1941 to May 1943) and several issues of Adventure from August 1954 to August 1964. Anonymously he edited the three bimonthly numbers of Captain Zero (November 1949 to March 1950).
Norton was also associated with Sam Moskowitz for a number of genre reprint Anthologies, either in collaboration or more often with Norton given sole credit for compilations assembled by Moskowitz alone, beginning with The Award Science Fiction Reader (anth 1966) [see Checklist below]; other such titles are chiefly Horror or Fantasy. The sf anthology Futures Unlimited (anth 1969) uniquely appears to have been edited by Norton alone. [DRL]
see also: G-8 and His Battle Aces; The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
Alden Holmes Norton
born Lynn, Massachusetts: 23 July 1903
died New York: January 1987
works as editor
This list includes ghosted titles.
- The Award Science Fiction Reader (New York: Award, 1966) ghost-edited by Sam Moskowitz [anth: pb/]
- Horror Times Ten (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1967) ghost-edited by Sam Moskowitz [anth: pb/]
- Masters of Horror (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1968) ghost-edited by Sam Moskowitz [anth: pb/]
- Futures Unlimited (New York: Pyramid Books, 1969) [anth: pb/Peter Bramley]
- Great Untold Stories of Fantasy and Horror (New York: Pyramid Books, 1969) with Sam Moskowitz [anth: pb/]
- Hauntings and Horrors, Ten Grisly Tales (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1969) ghost-edited by Sam Moskowitz [anth: pb/]
- Ghostly by Gaslight (New York: Pyramid Books, 1971) ghost-edited by Sam Moskowitz [anth: pb/]
- The Space Magicians (New York: Pyramid Books, 1971) with Sam Moskowitz [anth: pb/]
- Horrors in Hiding (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1973) with Sam Moskowitz [anth: pb/Vincent Di Fate]
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