author
Arthur J. Burks
1898–1974
A Marine officer turned pulp powerhouse, this prolific storyteller poured wartime experience and a taste for the uncanny into adventure, horror, and early science fiction. His stories filled the pages of popular magazines in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, where he became known for speed, energy, and sheer range.
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
Born in Washington state in 1898, Arthur J. Burks served in the U.S. Marine Corps before building a remarkably busy writing career. Reliable reference sources describe him as both a military man and a fiction writer, and note that he later returned to service during World War II, eventually retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
Burks began publishing in the pulp era and went on to produce a huge body of short fiction across several popular genres. Sources consistently connect him with adventure, detective stories, aviation tales, weird fiction, and science fiction, and they note that his work appeared in magazines such as Weird Tales, Strange Tales, and Science Fiction Quarterly.
What makes him memorable today is that mix of lived experience and magazine-era storytelling drive. He wrote fast, wrote widely, and helped shape the feel of early 20th-century popular fiction, especially in the pulps where suspense, danger, and strange ideas mattered most.