The result was a body of fiction that will forever be talked about in speculative fiction circles, including the much acclaimed Final Blackout which Heinlein declared to be, “as perfect a piece of science fiction as has ever been written.” Also from this arrangement with Street & Smith came L. Ron Hubbard’s foray into the fantasy genre, and his landmark work of the era, Fear. Drawn from his ethnological research, Fear tells of a clash between science and superstition that eventually led horror master Stephen King to call it, “One of the few books in the chiller genre which actually merits employment of the overworked adjective ‘Classic,’ as in ‘This is a classic tale of creeping surreal menace and horror.’”