Henry S. Whitehead

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Henry S. Whitehead

Born:	March 5, 1882 Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.
Died:	November 23, 1932
Occupation:	short story writer, rector
Nationality:	U.S.
Writing period:	1905 to 1932
Genres:	Horror, Fantasy

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

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Short fiction 2.2 Collections 3 References

[edit] 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

[edit] Works

[edit] Short 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)

[edit] Collections

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

[edit] References

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 8. ISBN 1-55742-005-X. 
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 27. 
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 26-27. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
• Ruber, Peter (2000). Arkham's Masters of Horror. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 154-158. ISBN 0-87054-177-3. 
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 51-52. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4. 

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