Author · United States · 1880–1969
Greye La Spina
Early weird-pulp chills; occult menace loose in respectable American rooms.
Greye La Spina (1880–1969) was an American writer who is best known for her horror, fantasy and suspense fiction. Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, she published over one hundred short stories, serials, novelettes and one-act plays during her career.
She became particularly associated with pulp magazines such as Weird Tales and The Thrill Book, where her supernatural fiction gained a large readership. She published her first supernatural story in 1919, and her best-known work, Invaders from the Dark, was published in hardcover by Arkham House in 1960.
She is now remembered as one of the most notable women writers of early twentieth-century weird fiction.
Weird tales, old shadows in 2026
Greye La Spina filled Weird Tales, The Thrill Book, and other pulps with supernatural fiction for decades, and her stories found a large readership in their day. She works in the classic weird register: ordinary settings, patient dread, something wrong beneath the surface. Read her today to recover a woman's voice from the pulp era — in a story short enough for one evening.
