John Martin Leahy | |
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Born | Newcastle, Washington, United States | May 16, 1886
Died | March 26, 1967 Seattle, Washington, United States | (aged 80)
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Nationality | American |
Genre | weird fiction, fantasy |
John Martin Leahy (May 16, 1886 – March 26, 1967) was an American short story writer, novelist and artist. He wrote and illustrated weird stories that appeared in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales and Science and Invention. His novel Drome was published by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., in 1952.
His short story "In Amundsen’s Tent" (1928) is a precoursor of both H. P. Lovecraft’s "At the Mountains of Madness" and John W. Campbell Jr.’s "Who Goes There?".[1]