Amelia Reynolds Long ( – ) was an American

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writer, novelist, and a pioneer woman writer for the early

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magazines of the 1930s.

Biography

A resident of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, she was the author of a number of science fiction stories, including "A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" and "Scandal in the Fourth Dimension". Her ''

Weird Tales ''Weird Tales'' is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, prin ...

'' story, "The Thought-Monster", was made into the 1958 British

film ''

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.'' The story sale to the film's producers was brokered by her agent

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. She co-wrote the 1936 novel ''

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'' with

William L. Crawford William Levi Crawford (September 10, 1911 – January 25, 1984) was an American publisher and editor. Career During the autumn of 1933, Crawford, a West Coast science fiction fan, proposed to start a non-paying weird fiction magazine, ''Unusu ...

under the combined pseudonym Peter Reynolds. Some of her stories appeared under the byline "A. R. Long".

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