author
Greye La Spina
1880–1969
A prolific American writer of horror, fantasy, and pulp adventure, she published more than a hundred stories, serials, and plays. Her eerie fiction appeared in magazines like Weird Tales, and her novel Invaders from the Dark later reached hardcover through Arkham House.
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Old Mr. Wiley
by Greye La Spina
About the author
Born Fanny Greye Bragg in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Greye La Spina was an American writer and playwright whose career stretched across the great pulp-magazine era. She wrote in several genres, but she is especially remembered for supernatural and horror fiction.
Her work appeared in a wide range of magazines, including Weird Tales, Black Mask, The Thrill Book, All-Story, and Photoplay. Over the course of her career, she published more than one hundred short stories, serials, novelettes, and one-act plays, building a reputation as one of the notable women writing strange and unsettling fiction in early twentieth-century popular magazines.
One of her best-known longer works is Invaders from the Dark, first serialized in Weird Tales in 1925 and later published in hardcover by Arkham House in 1960, the only hardcover book issued during her lifetime. She died on September 17, 1969.