His second novel, Dreadful Sanctuary (serialized in Astounding during 1948) is an early example of conspiracy fiction, in which a paranoid delusion of global proportions is perpetuated by a small but powerful secret society. There is no real evidence for it, despite a statement to that effect in the first volume of Isaac Asimov's autobiography, In Memory Yet Green. An often-repeated legend has it that Campbell, on receiving the manuscript for Sinister Barrier, created Unknown primarily as a vehicle for the short novel (pp. 9–94). It is explicitly a Fortean tale, based on Charles Fort's famous speculation "I think we're property", Russell explains in the foreword. Russell's first novel was Sinister Barrier, cover story for the inaugural, May 1939 issue of Unknown- Astounding 's sister magazine devoted to fantasy. Both Russell and Johnson became members of the British Interplanetary Society. Orlin Tremaine in the July 1937 number of Astounding Stories. Together, the two men wrote a novella, "Seeker of Tomorrow", that was published by F. Russell met up with Johnson, who encouraged him to embark on a writing career. Johnson, another reader from the same area. Russell became a fan of science fiction and in 1934, while living near Liverpool, he saw a letter in Amazing Stories from Leslie J. Russell was born in 1905 near Sandhurst in Berkshire, where his father was an instructor at the Royal Military College.
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