“The Happy Music” by Jeanne Williams was published in the January 1955 issue of Fantastic Universe.

This season of Vintage Sci-Fi Shorts features stories from the pages of the magazine Fantastic Universe, and particularly from the first two volumes of the magazine, published between 1953 and 1955.

Jeanne Williams is one of the great American Western writers, and her writing career has spanned over 60 years. She wrote a handful of science fiction and fantasy stories during her career, but her Western writing was what won her the most plaudits. She also served as president of the Western Writers of America and won its Golden Spur award in four different decades.