Arthur H. Landis

Arthur Harold Landis (1917 – January 1986) was an American fantasy, fiction and non-fiction author.

[1] Born at Birmingham, Alabama, to a family of vaudeville performers, Landis later travelled throughout the American West working at a variety of jobs.

In 1937 he enlisted in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigade in Spain during the civil war, serving as a scout and artillery spotter.

Landis and Mandy Harriman, also a veteran of the International Brigade, founded Camelot Publishing, whose publications included the magazine Coven 13, which printed a variety of fantasy and witchcraft stories, including the two-part story Let There Be Magick under the pen name of James R. Keaveny.

[citation needed] Landis died of bone cancer in Los Angeles in 1986.