Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1911–1995)
Author of Half in Shadow
About the Author
Works by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Women of Weird Tales: Stories by Everil Worrell, Eli Colter, Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Greye La Spina (2020) 49 copies
The House of Shadows 1 copy
The Black Stone Statue 1 copy
Mommy 1 copy
The Three Marked Pennies 1 copy
The Tree's Wife 1 copy
MASTERS OF HORROR, Vol. Three, Mary Elizabeth Counselman: Hostess of Horror and Fantasy (2022) 1 copy
Witch-Burning 1 copy
Associated Works
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Contributor — 78 copies
Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex (1975) — Contributor — 47 copies
Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House (2000) — Contributor — 44 copies
Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 (Handheld Classics) (2020) — Contributor — 33 copies
Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex (1971) — Contributor — 24 copies
Ghostly Gentlewomen: Two Centuries of Spectral Stories by the Gentle Sex (1900) — Contributor — 23 copies
More Dixie Ghosts: More Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American South (1994) — Contributor — 9 copies
Weird Tales Volume 28 Number 3, October 1936 — Contributor — 4 copies
Weird Tales Volume 22 Number 1, July 1933 — Contributor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 4, April 1933 — Contributor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 33 Number 4, April 1939 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 43 Number 6, September 1951 — Author — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 22 Number 5, November 1933 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Counselman, Mary Elizabeth
- Legal name
- Counselman, Mary Elizabeth
- Other names
- Dubois, Charles
McCrorey, Sanders
Starr, John - Birthdate
- 1911-11-19
- Date of death
- 1995-11-13
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Places of residence
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Gainesville, Georgia, USA
Gadsden, Alabama, USA - Education
- Alabama College
Montevallo University - Occupations
- short story writer
poet
journalist
fantasy writer
horror writer
science fiction writer - Awards and honors
- Phoenix Award (1981)
- Short biography
- Mary Elizabeth Counselman was born on a plantation in Birmingham, Alabama. She began writing poetry as a child. The family later moved to Gainesville, Georgia, where her father became a faculty member at Riverside Military Academy. She attended the University of Alabama and Alabama College (now Montevallo University).
Her first published short story, "The Devil Himself," ran in the November 1931 issue of Myself: The Occult Fiction Magazine.
She contributed stories to Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, and other popular magazines. She remains best known for her 30 horror and fantasy short stories that appeared in the long-running American pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales. Some of her stories also were dramatized for television in the USA, Canada, the UK, and Australia.
In 1941, she married Horace B. Vinyard, with whom she had a son, and they settled in Gadsden, living on a houseboat on the Coosa River. In addition to fiction writing, she worked as a reporter for The Birmingham News and taught creative writing at Gadsden State Junior College (now Gadsden State Community College) and at the University of Alabama.
In 1976, she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1981 she won the Phoenix Award for lifetime achievement as a southern science fiction or fantasy writer. Her poems appeared in the pioneering anthologies Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947)) and Fire and Sleet and Candlelight (1961).
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