Will Murray (writer)

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For the radio personality, see Will Murray.

Will Murray (b. 1953) is the author of more than 50 novels, mostly published under pseudonyms, and a scholar of pulp fiction.

Murray is the literary executor for the estate of Lester Dent, the creator of Doc Savage, and has published seven Doc Savage novels from Dent's outlines under Dent's pseudonym, Kenneth Robeson.[1] He was also the longtime ghostwriter for The Destroyer series, writing or co-writing more than 40 novels under the name of series creator Warren Murphy.[2] He has written Cthulhu Mythos stories, including a pair of stories about Nug and Yeb, the Twin Obscenities.

Murray is also a prolific author of nonfiction about pulp writers like Dent and H. P. Lovecraft. He edited the fanzines Duende and Skullduggery, and wrote The Duende History of The Shadow Magazine and The Assassin's Handbook, a Destroyer sourcebook. He edited Tales of Zothique and The Book of Hyperborea, two collections of stories by Clark Ashton Smith.