Greye La Spina – författare

An eery story of a fiendish murder and a midget psychic investigator—by the author of "Invaders From the Dark" and "The Devil''s Pool"! Originally published in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales, this volume includes an introduction by former WT editor John Gregory Betancourt.

‘Weird Tales’ launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, ‘Weird Tales’ was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. ‘Weird Tales’ single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer did readers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror have to seek out single stories in otherwise mundane magazines; now they had a magazine all of their own that published only the stories they wanted to read. Collected in this anthology are over two hundred thousand words and more than five hundred pages of some of the greatest stories ever published in the pages of ‘Weird Tales.’ Included are: ‘Beyond the Black River’ by Robert E. Howard; ‘The Secret of Kralitz’ by Henry Kuttner; ‘The Shunned House’ by H. P. Lovecraft; ‘Way Station’ by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; ‘Never Stop to Pat a Kitten’ by Miriam Allen deFord; ‘The Diary of Philip Westerly’ by Paul Compton; ‘The Door Into Infinity’ by Edmond Hamilton; ‘Isle of the Undead’ by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach; ‘The Perfect Host’ by Theodore Sturgeon; ‘Gainful Employment’ by Jamie Wild; ‘The Tree of Life’ by C. L. Moore; ‘Mop-Head’ by Leah Bodine Drake; ‘The Golgotha Dancers’ by Manly Wade Wellman; ‘The Medici Boots’ by Pearl Norton Swet; ‘The House in the Valley’ by August Derleth; ‘More than Shadow’ by Dorothy Quick; ‘In the Dark’ by Ronal Kayser; ‘Dearest’ by H. Beam Piper; ‘Doom of the House of Duryea’ by Earl Peirce, Jr.; ‘The Mississippi Saucer’ by Frank Belknap Long; ‘Mask of Death’ by Paul Ernst; ‘The Ring of Bastet’ by Seabury Quinn; ‘Tiger Cat’ by David H. Keller; ‘Old Mr. Wiley’ by Greye La Spina; ‘The Long Arm’ by Franz Habl; and ‘The People of the Black Circle’ by Robert E. Howard.

Old Mr. Wiley and the dog came over every night ... but were they real?

Esta Navidad llegan las Hermanas Raras, una deliciosa antologia de cuentos firmados por las grandes damas del pulp, seleccionados con mano experta por Mike Ashley. Brujas, vampiras, mujeres que se funden con sus deseos mas oscuros, madres monstruosas, hijas vengativas, damas con el alma podrida y jovencitas que rien mientras todo arde Esta Navidad llegan las Hermanas Raras, una deliciosa antologia de cuentos firmados por las grandes damas del pulp, seleccionados con mano experta por Mike Ashley para la British Library. Catorce autoras de la celebre Margaret St. Clair a la enigmatica Allison V. Harding, pasando por Tanith Lee, la baronesa Greye La Spina o incluso Lucy Maud Montgomery en su noche mas gotica firman estos relatos turbios, sugestivos y altamente adictivos, nacidos en las paginas de Weird Tales y otras revistas miticas entre los anos veinte y los setenta. Tesoros recuperados del subsuelo del horror, el suspense y la ciencia ficcion, estas historias estan habitadas por ratas que piensan, ninos con secretos atroces, amantes espectrales, figuras que se duplican en el espejo y presencias que te observan desde la alacena con mucha paciencia. Son cuentos que aranan, que rien entre dientes, que brillan de puro malicia, y que nos recuerdan que las mujeres siempre han sabido jugar y reinar en los margenes de lo raro.

“Take the box and get away from here as soon as you can. Don’t let it out of your sight until it has been printed and the books distributed!”

In May 1921, Miss Sophie Delorme beings a series of communications with a publishing house in search of a genuine student of the occult. Coming upon the supernatural author, Ms. Greye La Spinda, Miss Delorme implores her to take possession of a mysterious manuscript and see that it is published by any means necessary; and–after transferring ownership–is pulled away by invisible hands; her house immediately destroyed by explosion.

The manuscript, now in the hands of Ms. Greye Spina, is soon published–but not without incident–and details the extremely strange matter that occurred in the neighborhood of Meadowlawn, Lynbrook and changed the life of Miss Sophie Delorme’s niece, Portia.

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