Arthur J. Burks

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2009
  • Latest Book:
    October 2019
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Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Grottos of Chinatown

    Dorus Noel spent years in the Far East, and had the torture scars to prove it. Now he was back in NYC, working undercover in Manhattan's Chinatown, confronting the most insidious crimes and criminals imaginable. Burks' Chinatown is a society of stran...

  • Dominion

    Deep in the heart of South America's jungles, explorers Leyson and Horton found the source of the fantastic rumors which had been alarming government officials. And the facts they found were stranger than the wildest stories they had heard, for here ...

  • Earth, The Marauder

    Despite the fact that for centuries the Secret of Life had been the possession of children of men, the Earth was dying. She was dying because the warmth of the sun was fading; because, with the obliteration of the oceans in order to find new land upo...

  • Monsters of Moyen

    "Who is that man?" asked a young lady passenger of the steward, with the imperious inflection which tells of riches able to force obedience from menials who labor for hire.She pointed a bejeweled finger at the slender, soldierly figure which stood in...

  • Manape the Mighty

    High in jungle treetops swings young Bentley -- his human brain imprisoned in a mighty ape. excerpt Lee Bentley never knew how many others, if any, lived on after the Bengal Queen struck the hidden reef and sank like a stone. He had only a hazy memor...

  • The Manape Experiment

    Manape the Mighty and The Mind Master in one volumeHigh in jungle treetops swings young Bentley -- his human brain imprisoned in a mighty ape.ExcerptLee Bentley never knew how many others, if any, lived on after the Bengal Queen struck the hidden ree...

  • The Mind Master

    ArthurJ. Burks was an American writer and a Marine colonel....

  • Borderland

    Gigantic Beasts of Death and Destruction Stalk a Mysterious Island in this Tense, Fantastic Story of Santo Domingo....ExcerptI have always been immensely concerned about a number of obscure things, especially about what I have come to regard as the i...

  • Bells of Pell Street



  • The Bird Master

    Twitterings and squawks that presage looting and death hand a cuckoo of a murder case to astounded Police Detective Mickie O’Day!excerptWhen Captain Jim Doran phoned me to come to his office in the Detective Bureau down at Headquarters I had a hunc...

  • Cloud Rider

    Fog Held More Terrors for Clark Ekvall than All the Planes in Germany -- and Straight into the Fog He Headed for the Battle of His Life!excerptClark Ekvall, striding across the tarmac to Headquarters building, pulled his tunic up higher about his ear...

  • Death is too easy

  • Death of the Flute

    Not always does the past bury its dead. Out of the yellow waters of Pei Po came a strange vengeance to single out Dorus Noel in the tangle of New Yorks Chinatown.excerptChina had left her mark upon Dorus Noel. He thought of that now as he sat musing,...

  • The Road Runner

    Tex Killeen uses cow wrangling tactics in a dog fight-- and amazes even the Germans! excerptNobody in the Fifth Pursuit Group knew that if the war had ended four months before, Lieutenant Tex Killeen wouldn’t have got into it at all. Nobody guessed...

  • The White Wasp

    Vengeance groom many strange steeds that murder may ride, but none are strange as the one loosed in china-town to sear the mark of Bei Tui on the brain of Dorus Noel.excerpt"I don't know,” Dorus Noel spoke softly into the telephone, addressing his ...

  • The Osilians

    THE OSILIANS: Jay Bard is interested in electronics and experiments with a home-made oscillograph. He keeps it tuned-in to his radio so that the "shadows" of the voices of celebrities, speaking or singing over the air, appear on the oscillograph as w...

  • Lords of the Stratosphere

    High into air are the great New York buildings lifted by a ray whose source no telescope can find...Arthur Burks weaves a masterful science fiction tale, establishing himself as a genius in the genre and a prophetic storyteller!...

  • River Kill

  • The Bells of Vengeance - 5 Tales of Weird Murder

    PERIL PRESS presents: All Detective, April 1933 DEATH OF THE FLUTE A Dorus Noel Story by Arthur J. Burks Not Always Does The Past Bury Its Dead. Out Of The Yellow Waters Of The Pei Po Came A Strange Vengeance To Single Out Dorus Noel In The Tangle O...



  • The Cloud Runner - 5 Pulp Aviation Tales!

    PERIL PRESS presents: Sky Fighters, February 1936 CLOUD RIDER by Arthur J. Burks Author of “Hair-Trigger Seconds,” “ ‘Hi, Soldier’,” etc. Fog Held More Terrors for Clark Ekvall than All the Planes in Germany -- and Straight into the Fog...

  • The Easy Kill - 5 Tales of Weird Murder

    PERIL PRESS presents: Popular Detective, April 1941 DOUBLE FOR DEATH by Arthur J. Burks When His Cop Brother Shows Yellow, Jack Leysen Puts Himself on the Spot and Cleans the Family Name With a Blood-Bath! 5400 Words Thrilling Mystery, Nov 1941 Thr...

  • Cathedral of Horror and Other Stories

    Between the years 1934 and the dying days of Popular Publications' three weird menace pulps, Arthur J. Burks contributed some five dozen tales, most of novelette length. John Pelan has sifted through them and introduces this first volume of Burks' we...

  • Astounding Stories of Super-Science, Vol. 2, No. 1

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine. As of 2015, it is the longest running continuously published magazine of that genre, the June 2015 issue being number 1,000. Initially published in 1930 in the United States as ...

  • Horror Stories - Arthur Leo Zagat

    Horror Stories! The dark companion to Dime Mystery Magazine. Created to showcase stories too horrible for Terror Tales. The third of the triumvirate of fear pulps. This brand of fiction came to be called Weird Menace. The mystery-and-menace formula p...

  • Terror Tales - Blood on the Moon

    When she saw savage blood-lust in the eyes of her lover, Nellie knew that he had become one of the lost children of the moon.In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names -- the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terr...

  • Terror Tales - Cave of the Corpses

    Why should a man who loved his daughter, send her, long after his death, into the clutches of an unearthly creature of satanic passions?In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names -- the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, ...

  • Air Stories, August 1927

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    A FICTION HOUSE PRESS PULP REPLICA: The August 1927 issue of AIR STORIES containing Jerry the Hawk by Arthur J. Burks, North of the Stars by John Paul Jones, Riders of the Clouds (Part 1) by Thomson Burtis, Flaming Wings by Frank Richardson Pierce, T...

  • Black Medicine

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  • The Crimson Blight

    • / General Fiction
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    A collection of nine stories by Arthur J. Burks, reprinted from the pages of Thrilling Adventures and Thrilling Mystery pulp magazines, in a facsimile format. Included in this collection are:The Crimson BlightAztec GoldDance of the DrownedDeath's Fle...



  • Strange Tales, November 1931

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    A FICTION HOUSE PRESS PULP REPLICA of the second issue of STRANGE TALES from November 1931 featuring The Black Mass by Capt. S. P. Meek, Webbed Hands by Ferdinand Berthoud, Guatemozin the Visitant by Arthur J. Burks, After Sunset by Philip Hazleton, ...

  • Cerimarie

    in The Evil People
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Arthur J. Burks has published 31 books.

Arthur J. Burks does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Horror Stories - Arthur Leo Zagat, was published in October 2019.

The first book by Arthur J. Burks, Grottos of Chinatown, was published in March 2009.

No. Arthur J. Burks does not write books in series.
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