DANGER,
by Irvin Lester and Fletcher PrattMurray Fletcher Pratt (1897–1956) remains most famous as a wargamer. He invented, wrote the rules, and played an elaborate naval wargame with tiny wooden ships well before World War II. He brought this same logic and methodology to his fiction writing, most notably his collaborations with L. Sprague de Camp, which resulted in the “Incomplete Enchanter” series, classic fantasy short stories, and the “Gavagan’s Bar” series of bar stories.. He also wrote prolifically on naval history and the American Civil War.
Pratt attended Hobart College for one year. During the 1920s he worked for the Buffalo Courier-Express and on a Staten Island newspaper. In the late 1920s, he began selling stories to pulp magazines, such as Amazing Stories (where “Danger” ap
