{"id":9904,"date":"2023-10-26T22:48:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T02:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=9904"},"modified":"2023-10-26T22:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T02:48:51","slug":"book-review-fettered-and-other-tales-of-terror-by-greye-la-spina-edited-by-michael-j-phillips-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-fettered-and-other-tales-of-terror-by-greye-la-spina-edited-by-michael-j-phillips-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Fettered and Other Tales of Terror by Greye La Spina, edited by Michael J. Phillips Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fettered and Other Tales of Terror <\/em>by Greye La Spina, edited by Michael J. Phillips Jr.<\/p>\n

From Beyond Press, 2023<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 979-8987574331<\/p>\n

Available: Paperback, Kindle edition<\/p>\n

Buy:\u00a0Bookshop.org<\/a>\u00a0| Amazon.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greye La Spina (1880-1969) was a prolific American writer, who published in various genre magazines (e.g. Weird Tales<\/em>) more than one hundred dark short stories and novelettes, most of which, sadly, have been lost.<\/p>\n

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During her lifetime she was extremely popular, more than HP Lovecraft (who, incidentally, had a low opinion of her fictional work).<\/p>\n

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Tracing her stories is indeed a hard task nowadays, so praise to From Beyond Press for making available again to the public some of her production.<\/p>\n

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The present volume collects four stories and a novella, providing to today\u2019s readers a pleasant, small\u00a0 taste of her body of work.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFettered\u201d is a dark novella dealing with the theme of vampirism, certainly a bit outdated today, but addressed by La Spina with a vivid and disquieting approach, able to unsettle even the readers well-used to this particular topic.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Last Cigarette\u201d is a very short but effective story featuring a suicidal man whose plans are ruined by an unexpected occurrence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Remorse of Professor Panebianco\u201d, despite its unlikely pseudoscientific basis, is a powerful, intriguing story able to fascinate and disturb.<\/p>\n

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In the tense, dramatic \u201cThe Scarf of the Beloved\u201d, a grave robber has to face a terrible truth, while in the engrossing \u201cWolf of the Steppes\u201d a dangerous werewolf is finally discovered and defeated.<\/p>\n

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The themes addressed in the included stories are traditional enough, but I have the feeling that this is the very reason why these specific tales have survived or have been saved throughout the years.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Mario Guslandi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fettered and Other Tales of Terror by Greye La Spina, edited by Michael J. Phillips Jr. From Beyond Press, 2023 ISBN-13: 979-8987574331 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Buy:\u00a0Bookshop.org\u00a0| Amazon.com       Greye La Spina (1880-1969) was a prolific American writer, who published in various genre magazines (e.g. Weird Tales) more than one hundred dark short<\/p>\n

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