Devil Crystals of Arret

Devil Crystals of Arret is a popular classic work by Hal K. Wells. Harold Kerton Wells was born in September 1899 in Little Hocking and lived in Belpre and Athens, Ohio, before seeking greener pastures on the West Coast. Wells enlisted in the Ohio National Guard in May 1917, a little more than a month after the United States declared war on Germany. He was discharged fourteen months later with a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability. Wells was classified as 50% disabled. By 1930, Wells was living in Los Angeles and calling himself a writer of magazine fiction. Hal K. Wells wrote several more stories for fantasy and science fiction magazines from 1931 to 1954.