author
John Martin Leahy
1886–1967
A strange and imaginative voice from the early pulp era, this American writer and artist filled his fiction with underground worlds, eerie inventions, and uncanny creatures. His work appeared in magazines like Weird Tales and Science and Invention, where he often paired wild ideas with his own illustrations.
1 Audiobook
Drome
by John Martin Leahy
About the author
Born in Newcastle, Washington, in 1886, John Martin Leahy was an American writer and artist remembered for a small but distinctive body of weird and science-fantasy fiction. Reliable reference sources agree that he wrote and illustrated stories for early pulp magazines, especially Weird Tales and Science and Invention, and that much of his known work appeared in the 1920s.
His best-known book is Drome, a fantasy novel first serialized in Weird Tales in 1927 and later published in book form in 1952. Readers who enjoy lost worlds, bizarre life forms, and the dreamlike side of early speculative fiction often find his work especially memorable.
Very little biographical detail seems to be firmly documented beyond the basics. He died in Seattle in 1967, and his reputation today rests on the originality of his strange tales and illustrations rather than on a large published output.