The Stone Death

Following quickly on the heels of Bleeding Sun, The Stone Death was serialized online before being released by the author, Jeff Deischer, in a 2012 self-pubished edition. In his introduction, Deischer noted “This story can’t, of course, be published for sale, because Doc Savage is a copyrighted character. The Stone Death was written as fan fiction, because I’d had trouble writing a novel, and I thought that I could do better with Doc, because my own natural pulp style is similar to Dent’s own…”

Deischer added, “Will Murray insisted — rightly or wrongly — that I post no more Doc Savage fan fiction after The Stone Death. Since we were friends, still are, I respected his wishes.”