Aka Dustin C. Scott
Author
Born 1917, near San Francisco, California
Died October 1, 1986, Sun City, Arizona
Verne Chute was born in 1917 near San Francisco. He was a prolific author of crime fiction, science fiction, Westerns, and books for young people and contributed to Ace-High Western Stories, Big-Book Western Magazine, The Blue Book Magazine, Detective Novels Magazine, .44 Western Magazine, Liberty, New Western, Short Stories, Thrilling Detective, and other magazines from 1936 to 1955. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database lists just two of his stories (and a letter in "The Eyrie"):
- "Flight into Destiny" in Weird Tales (Mar. 1943)
- "The Mad Domneys" in Startling Stories (Fall 1944; reprinted in Science Fiction Yearbook, No. 2,1968)
After World War II, he had three of his novels in paperback (shown below),
Verne Chute died on October 1, 1986, in Sun City, Arizona.
- Flight of an Angel (1946)
- Wayward Angel (1948)
- Sweet and Deadly (1952)
Verne Chute died on October 1, 1986, in Sun City, Arizona.
Verne Chute's Story and Letter in Weird Tales
"Flight Into Destiny" (Mar. 1943)
Letter in "The Eyrie" (Mar. 1943)
Letter in "The Eyrie" (Mar. 1943)
Further Reading
There is an entry on Verne Chute in the French-language version of Wikipedia, here. That entry lists Chute's books and some of his stories. You will find another list of his stories at The FictionMags Index.
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Text copyright 2016 Terence E. Hanley