author
Richard Maples
A little-known mid-century speculative-fiction writer, Richard Maples is remembered for compact, unsettling tales that blur the line between everyday life and the uncanny. His story “The Scapegoat” was later adapted for the radio series X Minus One.
2 Audiobooks
The Scapegoat
by Richard Maples
The Frightful Ones
by Richard Maples
About the author
Richard Maples appears to have been an American science-fiction and fantasy writer active during the 1950s. His work was published in periodicals including Galaxy Science Fiction and Imagination: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
His known titles include “The Scapegoat” and “The Frightful Ones.” “The Scapegoat” was presented on X Minus One on August 8, 1957, helping preserve Maples’s work as part of classic American science-fiction radio.