Henry S. Whitehead

Henry S. Whitehead

Infobox Writer
name = Henry S. Whitehead


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birthdate = birth date|1882|3|5|mf=y
birthplace = Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States
deathdate = death date and age|1932|11|23|1882|3|5|mf=y
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occupation = short story writer, rector
nationality = American
period = 1905 to 1932
genre = Horror, Fantasy

Rev. Henry St. Clair Whitehead (March 5, 1882November 23, 1932) was an American writer of horror fiction and fantasy.

Biography

Henry S. Whitehead was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on March 5, 1882. He graduated from Harvard University in 1904. He later attended Berkeley Divinity School of Middletown, Connecticut and was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1912. While serving in the Virgin Islands, Whitehead gathered the material he was to use in his later writings of the supernatural. A correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft, Whitehead's stories appeared in "Weird Tales", "Strange Tales", "Adventure" and other pulp magazines

Works

hort fiction

* "The Door" (1924)
* "Tea Leaves" (1924)
* "The Wonderful Thing" (1925)
* "The Thin Match" (1925)
* "Sea Change" (1925)
* "The Fireplace" (1925)
* "The Projection of Armand Dubois" (1926)
* "Jumbee" (1926)
* "Across the Gulf" (1926)
* "The Shadows" (1927)
* "West India Lights" (1927)
* "The Left Eye" (1927)
* "Obi in the Caribbean" (1927)
* "The Cult of the Skull" (1928)
* "The Lips" (1929)
* "Sweet Grass" (1929)
* "Black Tancrède" (1929)
* "The People of Pan" (1929)
* "The Tabernacle" (1930)
* "The Shut Room" (1930)
* "The Passing of a God" (1931)
* "The Trap" (1931) with H. P. Lovecraft
* "The Tree-Man" (1931)
* "Black Terror" (1931)
* "Hill Drums" (1931)
* "The Black Beast" (1931)
* "Cassius" (1931)
* "Mrs. Lorriquer" (1932)
* "No Eye-Witnesses" (1932)
* "Seven Turns in a Hangman's Rope" (1932)
* "The Moon-Dial" (1932)
* "The Napier Limousine" (1932)
* "The Great Circle" (1932)
* "Sea-Tiger" (1932)
* "The Chadbourne Episode" (1933)
* "Scar-Tissue" (1946)
* "Bothon" (1946)
* "The Ravel 'Pavane'" (1946)
* "Williamson" (1946)
* "--In Case of Disaster Only" (1946)
* "Bothon" (1946)

Collections

*"Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales" (1944)
*"West India Lights" (1946)

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=8 | date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=27 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi| first=S.T.| authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title= | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=26-27 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Ruber| first=Peter| title=Arkham's Masters of Horror | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=154-158 | date=2000 | id=ISBN 0-87054-177-3
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=51-52 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4cite web
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