Wolf of the Steppes by Greye la Spina Five early stories by Greye La Spina (1880-1969) one of the founding female authors of the modern horror story. Wolf of the Steppes (1919)- A series of letters detailing horrifying encounters with a werewolf From Over the Border (1919)- Revenge from beyond the grave The Haunted Landscape (1919)- An artist gives testimony in the circumstances of his own death The Wax Doll (1919)- An eerie tale of a little girl whose sole plaything was a forbidden doll The Ultimate Ingredient (1919)- A horrifying tale of a scientist willing to sacrifice those around him to facilitate his research
Author
Greye La Spina was one of the few women to write regularly for the leading fantasy/horror pulps, and was a contributor to the very first issue of the first American pulp magazine devoted exclusively to tales of horror and the fantastic. Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Methodist minister, she was a precocious child, publishing her own "small press" newspaper at the age of 10, with pages of poems and local gossip. As a teenager, she won a literary contest and had a story published in Connecticut Magazine. La Spina gave up writing to attend to her marriage and the raising of a daughter, but in her early thirties she was drawn back to it. In the 1920s and 1930s, La Spina worked as a journalist, and she was said to have been the first female newspaper photographer. Following the death of her husband, La Spina married again, to a deposed Italian baron.
