Mary Elizabeth Counselman

[citation needed] 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 US, Canada, the British Isles, and Australia.

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.

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.

The 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.