Zealia B. (Zealia Brown) Bishop

Born in 1897, Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop was an American short-story writer whose name also appears as Zelia Bishop or Zealia B. Bishop. She published fiction in the early twentieth century and is remembered for work that moved between popular magazine storytelling and the weird fiction world.

Although she wrote a good deal of romantic fiction, she is most often associated with three horror tales linked to H. P. Lovecraft: The Curse of Yig, Medusa's Coil, and The Mound. Modern accounts commonly describe these pieces as collaborations in which Bishop provided story ideas or material and Lovecraft heavily revised or ghostwrote the final texts.

That mix of personal ambition, pulp publishing, and complicated authorship has kept her name in literary history. She remains an interesting figure not only for readers of classic horror, but also for anyone curious about how magazine fiction was shaped behind the scenes in the 1920s and 1930s.