author
Greye La Spina
1880–1969
A pioneer of early pulp horror, this American writer filled magazines with eerie tales of the supernatural and the strange. Her work helped make her one of the notable women writing weird fiction in the first half of the 20th century.
1 Audiobook
Old Mr. Wiley
by Greye La Spina
About the author
Born Fanny Greye Bragg in Wakefield, Massachusetts, on July 10, 1880, she later wrote under the name Greye La Spina. She published more than 100 short stories, serials, novelettes, and one-act plays, building a long career in popular magazines at a time when women were still rare in the field of horror and fantasy.
Her fiction appeared in a wide range of pulp magazines, including Weird Tales, Black Mask, The Thrill Book, All-Story, and Photoplay. She is especially remembered for her supernatural and weird fiction, and for serialized novels such as Invaders from the Dark, The Gargoyle, Fettered, and The Portal to Power.
Greye La Spina died on September 17, 1969. Though she is not as widely known today as some of her contemporaries, her stories remain part of the rich history of early American horror and pulp fiction.