
Moskowitz also provided the introduction and stories notes to Hauntings and Horrors, the fifrth anthology to be published under the Norton name. Someone who also had the same chops was SF historian and fan Sam Moskowitz, who ghost-edited five of Norton's anthologies and received a co-editor's credit on the last four. Norton had the chops to select lesser-known, yet interesting, stories by important writers in the field.

Merritt's Fantasy and the resurrection of Fantastic Novels. He rose to become the editorial director of 27 of Popular's magazines and green-lit publication of A. He served a three-year stint (from 1941 through 1943) as editor of Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories.

Norton was best known as an editor for the lower-tiered Popular Publications in the 1940s.

Norton (1969)īefore releasing nine anthologies of horror and of science fiction stories (from 1966 to 1973), Alden H. Hauntings and Horrors: Ten Grisly Tales edited by Alden H.
