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Mary Elizabeth Counselman

Lifespan: 1911 – 1995
Nationality: American
Active: 1951
Works held: 1

Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1911–1995) was a Southern writer whose atmospheric weird fiction appeared frequently in Weird Tales; ‘The Three Marked Pennies’ was one of the magazine’s most popular stories ever. Her tales, often rooted in Southern folklore, are a warm and distinctive part of the classic weird tradition.

The works

1951

The Conquistadors Come

Wrote across

Recurring themes

First Contact Colonization

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward Nourse Alfred Coppel Allen Kim Lang Arnold Marmor Arthur G. Hill Basil Wells Betsy Curtis Bryce Walton

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Stephen Marlowe Randall Garrett Robert Silverberg Bryce Walton Alan Edward Nourse H. Beam Piper Murray Leinster Winston K. Marks Charles L. Fontenay Poul Anderson

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