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PseudoPod 767: Death Has Red Hair

PseudoPod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Arts, Books, Drama

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Author : Greye La Spina Narrator : Dennis Robinson Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Death Has Red Hair” was originally published in Weird Tales in September of 1942. This story is surprising in being an early entry that is unabashedly feminist with multiple shades of “street harassment” on […]

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0:00.0

The following story is true. The names have been changed at the request of the survivors.

0:04.7

After all, this is a horrifying podcast.

0:10.8

Sudapod Episode 767 for July 23rd, 2021. Death has red hair by Gray Lispinia.

0:20.8

Hi there, I'm Scott Campbell, Associate Editor, Web Wrangler, and your guest host for this episode.

0:27.1

I hope all of you are keeping your cool to summer.

0:30.8

We tentacles here at Sudapod Towers do not like the heat.

0:35.2

It reminds us too much of boiling water.

0:38.8

But we have plenty of ghosts, generating cold spots, and most of the residents here are active

0:43.8

during the night for, um, reasons. We hope that death has red hair by Gray Lispinia will give you

0:51.6

a chill up your spine. Gray Lispinia is one of the few women to write regularly for the leading

0:57.6

fantasy horror pulps, and was a contributor to the very first issue of the first American pulp

1:03.2

magazine devoted exclusively to tales of horror and the fantastic.

1:08.5

Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Methodist minister, she was a

1:12.9

percusious child, publishing her own small press newspaper at the age of 10 with pages of poems

1:19.4

and local gossip. As a teenager, she won a literary contest and had a story published in Connecticut

1:25.1

magazine. Spinia gave up writing to attend to her marriage and the raising of a daughter,

1:29.9

but in her early 30s, she was drawn back into it. In the 1920s and 30s, Lispinia worked as a

1:36.8

journalist, and she was said to have been the first female newspaper photographer.

1:42.2

Following the death of her husband, Lispinia married again to a deposed Italian Baron.

1:48.4

Her first supernatural story, The Wolf on the Steps, was sold to Thrill Book in 1919.

1:54.3

She won second place in PhotoPlace magazine 1921, short story contest, gaining her a $25

2:01.0

$100 prize. Her first and only hardcover book, The Novel Invaders in the Dark, was published

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