H. F. (Henry Ferris) Arnold

Writing as H. F. Arnold, Henry Ferris Arnold was an American author of horror and science fiction born in 1902 and died in 1963. Surviving bibliographic records and library sources link him especially with short fiction published in the pulp-magazine era.

His best-known work is "The Night Wire," first published in 1926, a story that has stayed in print and is still widely anthologized for its unsettling atmosphere and inventive premise. Other known stories include "The City of Iron Cubes" and "When Atlantis Was," showing his range across weird fiction and early science fiction.

Not much biographical detail is easy to confirm, which gives Arnold a slightly mysterious place in genre history. Even so, his reputation has endured because a handful of vivid stories were strong enough to outlast the magazines that first printed them.