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Pen name
  
Isra Putnam

Name
  
Greye Spina

Occupation
  
writer, playwright

Role
  
Writer

Nationality
  
American

Died
  
September 17, 1969

Period
  
1919 to 1926


Greye La Spina

Born
  
July 10, 1880 Wakefield, Massachusetts, US (
1880-07-10
)

Genre
  
horror, Fantasy, Detective fiction

Books
  
Invaders from the Dark, The Gargoyle and Others: A Quintette of Spine Chilling Horror

Old mr wiley by fanny greye la spina


Greye La Spina (1880–1969) was an American writer who published over one hundred short stories, serials, novelettes, and one-act plays.

Contents

Her stories appeared in Metropolitan, Black Mask, Action Stories, Ten-Story Book, The Thrill Book, Weird Tales, Modern Marriage, Top-Notch Magazine, All-Story, Photoplay, and many other magazines.

the sinister painting by greye la spina performed by barry bowman creepypasta


Biography

La Spina was born Fanny Greye Bragg on July 10, 1880 in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Her father was a Methodist clergyman. She was married to Ralph Geissler in 1898 and gave birth to a daughter, Celia, two years later. The following year, her husband died. In 1910 she married Baron Robert La Spina, an Italian aristocrat.

Her first supernatural story, "The Wolf on the Steppes" was sold to Thrill Book in 1919. She won second place in Photoplay magazine's 1921 short story contest gaining her a $2,500 prize. Her first book, Invaders from the Dark, was published by Arkham House in 1960.

Selected short stories

  • The Ultimate Ingredient (Thrill Book, 1919)
  • The Tortoise-Shell Cat (Weird Tales, November 1924)
  • The Scarf of the Beloved (Weird Tales, February 1925)
  • The Gargoyle (Weird Tales, September - November 1925)
  • The Devil's Pool (Weird Tales, June 1932)
  • The Sinister Painting (Weird Tales, September 1934)
  • Death Has Red Hair (Weird Tales, September 1942)
  • Great Pan Is Here (Weird Tales, November 1943)
  • The Antimacassar (Weird Tales, May 1949)
  • Old Mr. Wiley (Weird Tales, March, 1951)
  • References

    Greye La Spina Wikipedia