Dr. Bird closes with the evil Saranoff again - in a deadly, mysterious blanket of fog... A short story first published in Astounding Stories magazine, March 1932. Sterner St. Paul Meek was a US military chemist, and SF and children's book author. He published as Capt. S.P. Meek, Major S.P. Meek, and Col. S.P. Meek. He retired as a Colonel in 1947 and took up writing full time. His first published story was in "Field and Stream" in 1928, and he was a prolific contributor to SF pulp magazines like "Amazing" and "Astounding" between 1929 and 1933, appearing alongside Ray Cummings and Murray Leinster. He stopped writing SF in 1933, turning to children's fiction, and published twenty children's books between 1932 and 1956.