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Arthur Leeds

A little-known pulp-era writer with a flair for eerie ideas, he is best remembered today for the 1925 horror story "The Return of the Undead." His name also turns up in early writing guides and in accounts of the New York literary circle around H. P. Lovecraft.

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Writing the Photoplay

Writing the Photoplay

by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein, Arthur Leeds

About the author

Arthur Leeds was an American writer active in the early 20th century. Confirmed details about his life are sparse, but reliable catalog and reference sources link him to short fiction from the 1910s and 1920s, including "The Return of the Undead", which appeared in Weird Tales in November 1925.

His career seems to have ranged across popular writing and practical how-to publishing. He is also credited as a co-author on a later edition of Writing the Photoplay with Joseph Berg Esenwein, suggesting experience not just in fiction but in the craft and business of commercial storytelling.

Although he is not widely documented today, Leeds remains of interest to readers of vintage horror and pulp fiction. He is also remembered in Lovecraft-related reference material as part of the broader New York literary scene of the 1920s.