| 词条 | Mary Elizabeth Counselman |
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| name = Mary Elizabeth Counselman | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = Charles Dubois, Sanders McCrorey, and John Starr | birth_date = {{birth date|1911|11|19|mf=y}} | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|1994|05|04|1911|11|19|mf=y}} | death_place = | occupation = short story writer, poet | nationality = United States | period = | genre = horror, fantasy }}Mary Elizabeth Counselman (November 19, 1911 – November 13, 1995) was an American writer of short stories and poetry. BiographyMary Elizabeth Counselman was born on November 19, 1911 in Birmingham, Alabama. She began writing poetry as a child and sold her first poem at the age of six.[1] She later moved to Gainesville, Georgia, where her father was a faculty member at the Riverside Military Academy.[2] She attended the University of Alabama and Alabama College (now Montevallo University).[1][2] Counselman's work appeared in Weird Tales, Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, and other magazines.[1] Her stories were dramatized on General Electric Theater and other national television programs in the USA, Canada, the British Isles, and Australia. Counselman began writing weird fiction for the pulp magazines in the 1930s. [3] Her tale "The Three Marked Pennies", written while she was in her teens, and published in Weird Tales in 1934, was one of the three most popular in all of Weird Tales history.[1][4][9] Readers mentioned it in letters for years after its publication.[4] Another story, "Seventh Sister" published in Weird Tales in January 1943, is a rare example of a voodoo story written by a woman.[1] In describing her philosophy of writing horror fiction, she said, "The Hallowe'en scariness of the bumbling but kindly Wizard of Oz has always appealed to me more than the gruesome, morbid fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and those later authors who were influenced by their doom philosophies. My eerie shades bubble with an irrepressible sense of humour, ready to laugh with (never at) those earth-bound mortals whose fears they once shared."[9] Later, Counselman worked as a reporter for The Birmingham News. Counselman taught creative writing classes at Gadsden State Junior College (now the Wallace Drive Campus of Gadsden State Community College) and at the University of Alabama. She completed a novel about witchcraft, and in 1976 received a $6000 National Endowment for the Arts grant. The late August Derleth anthologised her poems in Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre and Fire and Sleet and Candlelight. For most of her life she resided on a houseboat in Gadsden, Alabama,[1] with her husband, Horace B. Vinyard, whom she married in 1941,[1][2] and a large entourage of cats.[2] Books{{wikisource author}}
AwardsCounselman received the 1981 Phoenix Award from the Southern Fandom Confederation. AdaptationsThe short story "Parasite Mansion", first published in the January 1942 issue of Weird Tales was adapted into an episode of the Thriller television anthology series, broadcast April 25, 1961. The episode is described as of above-average quality but undermined by its "blithe acceptance of the supernatural". It is, however, considered stronger than Counselman's original work.[5] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite book|last=Davin|first=Eric Leif|title=Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2006|page=375|isbn=9780739112670}} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|title=The Authors and Editors of Arkham House |url=http://www.arkhamhouse.com/authors.htm |accessdate=2007-01-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202095151/http://arkhamhouse.com/authors.htm |archivedate=2007-02-02 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=VanderMeer|first1=Ann and Jeff|title=The Weird: An Introduction|url=http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/05/the-weird-an-introduction/|website=Weird Fiction Review|accessdate=5 October 2018}} 4. ^1 {{cite book|title=Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy|volume=1|first=Robin Anne|last=Reid|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2009|isbn=9780313335914|page=47}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite book|title=This Is a Thriller|first=Alan|last=Warren|publisher=McFarland|year=2004|isbn=9780786419692|pages=94–97}}
|title = MARY ELIZABETH COUNSELMAN |url = http://clc.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sbaldwin/courses/old/engl257/group4/pennies/MARY%20ELIZABETH%20COUNSELMAN.htm |accessdate = 2007-01-18 |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080603040152/http://clc.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sbaldwin/courses/old/engl257/group4/pennies/MARY%20ELIZABETH%20COUNSELMAN.htm |archivedate = 2008-06-03 |df = }}
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