E. Hoffmann Price (1898 – 1988) was an American writer of popular fiction (he was a self-titled ''fictioneer'') for the pulp magazine marketplace. He collaborated with H. P. Lovecraft on "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" -- and penned hundreds of other stories, primarily in the horror and mystery fields. "Spirit Murder" originally appeared in the pulp magazine Spicy Detective Stories, December 1935.
