Arthur B. Waltermire

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Arthur B. Waltermire

1888–1938

Best remembered for eerie pulp fiction from the 1930s, this American writer brought a reflective, slightly philosophical edge to tales of death and dread. His work appeared in the world of Weird Tales, where atmosphere mattered as much as shock.

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The Doors of Death

The Doors of Death

by Arthur B. Waltermire

About the author

Born in 1888 and dead in 1938, Arthur B. Waltermire was an American author associated with pulp-era weird fiction. Public-domain records for The Doors of Death identify him as "Arthur B. Waltermire, 1888-1938," and Project Gutenberg notes that the story originally appeared in Weird Tales in October 1936.

He seems to have left behind a small but intriguing footprint rather than a large, famous body of work. What stands out is the mood of his fiction: ominous, thoughtful, and interested in mortality, fear, and what might wait beyond death.

Because reliable biographical material on him is scarce online, much of his life remains shadowy. That lack of detail adds a little mystery of its own, but the surviving work still offers a glimpse of a writer who fit naturally into the strange, unsettling imagination of classic pulp horror.