Death's Deputy

Death's Deputy originally appeared in the February 1940 issue of the magazine Unknown.

Flight Lieutenant Clayton McLean had bailed out of his burning plane... but the chute failed to open! No one could have survived such an experience, yet McLean did.

It was the first of many such impossible escapes from certain death for the lieutenant... and each time he was spared, someone else died.

By the time McLean realized what was happening to him, and what ruthless powers protected him, it was too late.

He was a man who wanted desperately to die – but knew he could not...