Henry S. Whitehead
Rev. Henry St. Clair Whitehead ( born March 5, 1882 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, † November 23, 1932 in Dunedin, Florida) was an American archdeacon and author of horror and fantasy literature.
- 2.1 Short stories
- 2.2 Collections
Life
1904 Whitehead graduated in the same class as Franklin D. Roosevelt at Harvard University and was known there as particularly committed football player. In Pt. Chester ( New York), he brought a political newspaper for the Reform Democrats of the Democratic party out and served as a " commissioner of athletics" at the Association of American Universities.
Archdeacon and horror author
Afterwards he attended the Berkeley Divinity School of Middletown (Connecticut) and was ordained a deacon in 1912 the Episcopal Church. As archdeacon of the Virgin Islands, he served from 1921 to 1929 ., There he lived on the island of Saint Croix and collected material, which he worked in his later writings on the supernatural. After he became a pen pal of HP Lovecraft, whiteheads Recent Stories from 1924 in relevant magazines as Weird Tales, Strange Tales and Adventure.
In Dunedin, Florida, Whitehead spent his later years as a spiritual rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd. Robert H. Barlow collected many of his letters and was planning to publish an edition, to which it never came, although Barlow wrote the introduction to Whitehead's story collection Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales ( 1944).
Friend of H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft was a special friend of Whitehead and visited him personally in Dunedin for several weeks in 1931, As an avowed unbeliever to Lovecraft expressed on Whitehead. " He Has nothing of the musty cleric about him; . dresses but in sports clothes, swears like a he-man on occasion, and is an utter stranger to bigotry or priggishness of any sort " [ German :" He has nothing of that musty clerics in itself; but wearing sports clothes, swears like a madman and then, and quite alien to him are bigotry or prudery of any kind " ]
Work
Short stories
- The Door (1924 )
- Tea Leaves (1924 )
- The Wonderful Thing ( 1925)
- The Thin Match ( 1925)
- Sea Change (1925 )
- The Fire Place ( 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)
- The Ravel ' Pavane ' (1946 )
- Williamson (1946 )
- - In Case of Disaster Only ( 1946)
- Bothon (1946 ); with H. P. Lovecraft
Collections
- Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales ( 1944)
- West India Lights ( 1946)
Secondary literature
- H. P. Lovecraft: In Memoriam: Henry St. Clair Whitehead. In: S.T. Joshi ( ed.) H. P. Lovecraft Collected Essays ·, Vol 5, Hippocampus Press, New York ( NY), 2006, ISBN 0-9761592-3-6.
- Sheldon Jaffery: The Arkham House Companion. Starmont House, Mercer Iceland, WA, 1989, ISBN 1-55742-005- X.
- Jack L. Chalker, Mark Owings: The Science - Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Mirage Press, Westminster, MD / Baltimore 1998.
- S.T. Joshi: Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI 1999, ISBN 0-87054-176-5, pp. 26-27.
- Peter Ruber: Arkham 's Masters of Horror. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI 2000, ISBN 0-87054-177-3, pp. 154-158.
- Leon Nielsen: Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. McFarland & Company, Jefferson, NC / London 2004, ISBN 0-7864-1785-4, pp. 51-52.
- ISFDB. Retrieved on 3 January 2007.