Phyllis McGinley [SEP] place of death
of the story for a promotional Capitol Records LP which also featured various Christmas songs from the label's catalog on the flip side. Karloff's reading is warm, vibrant and perfectly nuanced, and very similar to the feel he brought to his classic narration of the How the Grinch Stole Christmas television classic. It was also one of Karloff's last performances—he died a few months later in February 1969.
Phyllis McGinley died in New York City in 1978.
The Phyllis McGinley Papers can be found at the Special
until her death. During this time, she published ten short stories in the magazine (republished in "The Lists of the Past"). Shortly following the publication of her collection in 1976, a breast cancer diagnosis and rapid decline into ill health and advancing alcoholism appear to have prevented significant further writing. (Additional research needed on uncollected stories published after 1976).
Hayden was the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978) and her husband Charles L. Hayden, a telephone company worker