Verification that "R. L. Leming" and "Ron Leming" are the same comes from <a href="http://www.eveblaackpub.com/staff/rleming.html">this web site</a>, the web page for a magazine that he published in. Under their "contributor's notes" section, they listed "Ron Leming" as the editor of the "Damnations" anthology, which is credited within the book to "R. L. Leming". Other sources agree. From the introduction to his story in The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV: "Ron Leming says that he was supposedly born on September 11, 1950, but doesn't know where, as he is an orphan."