Eli Colter
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Eli Colter | |
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 Eli Colter in 1926 | |
| Born | September 30, 1890  |
| Died | May 30, 1984 (aged 93) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse(s) | Don Alviso |
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.[1] She sold her first short story in 1918 but considered the beginning of her career a story published in Black Mask in 1922.[2]
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.[2] The film The Untamed Breed (1948) was based on her short story "Something to Brag About".[3] She also published seven Western novels.[2]
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).[1]
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.[4]
She published her last story in 1952.[1] Eli Colter died on 30 May 1984 in Los Angeles.[1]
She married John Irving Hawkins, a ranch hand, in 1926 and they divorced in the 1930s. She was married to Glenn Fagalde, who published short stories under the name Don Alviso, until his death in 1957.[1]
