Eli Colter

Eli Colter (September 30, 1890 – May 30, 1984) was the pen name of May Eliza Frost, an American short story writer who published over three hundred stories in magazines from 1918 to 1952.

She was born on September 30, 1890 in Portland, Oregon. She sold her first short story in 1918 but considered the beginning of her career a story published in ''Black Mask'' in 1922.

Most of her stories were Westerns, in a style that has been described as "hard-boiled". She published in both western themed pulp magazines like ''Lariat Story'' and ''Western Story'' as well as general interest publications like ''Liberty'' and the ''Saturday Evening Post''. The film ''The Untamed Breed'' (1948) was based on her short story "Something to Brag About". She also published seven Western novels.

She published sixteen horror stories in ''Weird Tales'' and ''Strange Stories'' from the 1920s to the 1940s''.'' These stories were all collected in ''The Last Horror and Other Stories'' (2025).''''

Colter also published a trio of mystery novels - ''The Gull Cove Murders'' (1946), ''Cheer for the Dead'' (1947), and ''Rehearsal for the Funeral'' (1953) - featuring the detective Pat Campbell.

She published her last story in 1952. Eli Colter died on 30 May 1984 in Los Angeles. Provided by Wikipedia