author
Arthur J. Burks
1898–1974
A Marine officer turned pulp powerhouse, he poured wartime experience and restless imagination into hundreds of stories for the magazines that shaped early fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
3 Audiobooks
The vanishers
by Arthur J. Burks
Lords of the Stratosphere
by Arthur J. Burks
The Mind Master
by Arthur J. Burks
About the author
Arthur J. Burks was an American writer and U.S. Marine officer, born in Waterville, Washington, on September 13, 1898, and remembered as one of the most prolific contributors to the pulp era. Reliable bibliographic sources identify his full name as Arthur Josephus Burks and place his work across science fiction, fantasy, horror, adventure, and nonfiction.
He began publishing in the early twentieth century and became especially associated with the big pulp magazines, including Weird Tales and other popular adventure and speculative-fiction venues. Sources consistently describe him as extraordinarily productive, with a huge body of short fiction as well as books, and note that he also used alternate bylines.
Burks served in the Marine Corps in both World War I and World War II, and that military background often adds extra texture to the way readers remember his fiction. He died on May 13, 1974, but his name still turns up in genre reference works and pulp-history circles as a vivid, energetic voice from the magazine age.