
Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Many of his novels and stories were written under the pseudonyms Harrington Strong, Raley Brien, George Drayne, Monica Morton, Rowena Raley, Frederic Phelps, Walter Pierson, and John Mack Stone, among others. McCulley started as a police reporter for The Police Gazette and served as an Army public affairs officer during World War I. An amateur history buff, he went on to a career in pulp magazines and screenplays, often using a Southern California backdrop for his stories. Aside from Zorro, McCulley created many other pulp characters, including Black Star, The Spider, The Mongoose, and Thubway Tham. Many of McCulley's characters—The Green Ghost, The Thunderbolt, and The Crimson Clown—were inspirations for the masked heroes that have appeared in popular culture from McCulley's time to the present day. Born in Ottawa, Illinois, and raised in Chillicothe, Illinois, he died in 1958 in Los Angeles, California, aged 75. -wikipedia
Series
Books

The Western Megapack
25 Classic Western Stories
2011

The Mark of Zorro
1919

The Crimson Clown
1928

The Black Star
1910

The Bat Strikes Again And Again!
2009

Zorro Rides Again
1931

The Victorian Rogues MEGAPACK®
28 Classic Tales
2014

Zorro #4
The Sign of Zorro
1941

The Further Adventures of Zorro
1922

The Christmas Megapack
25 Modern and Classic Yuletide Stories
2012

The Third Western Megapack
22 Classic Tales of the Old West
2014