Over the course of his seven-decade career, Long wrote over three hundred stories, poems, and articles, some of which have been widely reprinted in over eighty major publisher anthologies. Long's first professionally published story was "The Desert Lich," which appeared in the November 1924 issue of Weird Tales. His first book was A Man from Genoa and Other Poems (1926). The Long legacy is an important one in the annals of 20^th century pop culture. He helped shape the fantasy, horror, and science fiction fields while Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov were still in their teens. Long was one of the few science fiction writers to make the transition from the 1930s Astounding Stories to exacting editor John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and Unknown during SF's Golden Age. In the pages of Astounding and Unknown, Long appeared alongside Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt, Fritz Leiber, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, and many other highly respected SF luminaries. When the pulp magazines died in the early 1950s, Long successfully made the transition to the paperback original. As a pioneering horror comic book scriptwriter, Long paved the way for the immensely popular EC comics with his work in the ACG title Adventures into the Unknown (circa 1948). As an editor, Frank worked on magazines like Fantastic Universe, Satellite Science Fiction, Short Stories, and Mike Shayne Mystery during the 1950s and 1960s. Long's poetic bent carried over into his prose, and his verse kept the torch of romantic tradition alive during the age of modern freeform poetry.