David R. Solomon

David R. Solomon’s name is established in the consulted record by one printed fiction credit: “Fear,” in the March 1923 first issue of Weird Tales. The issue places the story among its opening contents and the text carries the same byline. The surviving source supplies no author’s note, life dates or occupation. No reliable connection to another person with the name has been established here, so the initials remain as printed and the account does not add a guessed identity.

“Fear” begins with a group of men at a work camp arguing about a snake and what they think they saw. The story turns on a distinction between a venomous moccasin and a harmless coachwhip, and on the way a memory can grow more frightening after the event. Those are features of the fictional construction, not documented episodes from Solomon’s life. The credit makes him part of the launch issue’s contributor list, alongside writers whose careers became easier to trace. For Solomon, the exact magazine page remains the strongest evidence: it preserves the title, byline, issue and a story that can still be read in its original publication context.