author
Mary Elizabeth Counselman
1911–1995
A gifted Southern storyteller, she became best known for eerie, atmospheric tales that slipped from everyday life into the uncanny. Her fiction appeared in both pulp magazines and major mainstream publications, giving her work an unusually wide reach.
2 Audiobooks
The Conquistadors Come
by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Witch-Burning
by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
About the author
Mary Elizabeth Counselman was an American writer of short stories and poetry, born in Birmingham, Alabama, on November 19, 1911. She is especially remembered for her horror and fantasy fiction, much of it shaped by Southern settings and folklore, and for her long association with Weird Tales.
Her work also appeared in widely read magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Collier’s, and The Saturday Evening Post, showing how comfortably she could move between popular magazine fiction and stranger, darker material. One of her best-known stories, "The Three Marked Pennies," was written when she was still a teenager and later helped establish her reputation.
Counselman died on November 13, 1995. Readers still return to her for the mix of elegance, suspense, and quiet supernatural menace that runs through her short fiction.