Henry S. Whitehead

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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 .

Life

1904 graduated Whitehead in the same class as Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Harvard University , where he was particularly committed Football known poker players. In Pt. In Chester, New York , he brought out a political paper for the Democratic Party's Reform Democrats and served as a commissioner of athletics for the Association of American Universities .

Archdeacon and horror writer

He then attended the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut and was ordained a deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1912 . He served as Archdeacon of the Virgin Islands from 1921 to 1929. There he lived on the island of Saint Croix and collected material that he used in his later writings on the supernatural. After he became a pen pal with HP Lovecraft , Whitehead's stories appeared from 1924 in relevant magazines such as Weird Tales , Strange Tales or Adventure .

In Dunedin, Florida , Whitehead spent his later years as spiritual director of the Church of the Good Shepherd. Robert H. Barlow collected many of his letters and planned to publish them as an edition, but this never came, although Barlow wrote the introduction to Whitehead's story collection Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales (1944).

Friend of HP Lovecraft

HP Lovecraft became a special friend of Whitehead and visited him personally in Dunedin for several weeks in 1931. As an avowed disbeliever, Lovecraft said of Whitehead: “He has nothing of the musty cleric about him; but dresses 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 a musty cleric about him, but wears sports clothes, occasionally curses like a real man, and any kind of bigotry or prudery is completely far from him. "]

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Short stories

  • 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 HP 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 HP Lovecraft

Collections

Secondary literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See e.g. B. HP Lovecraft : A Confession of Unfaith. In: ST Joshi (Ed.): HP Lovecraft · Collected Essays. Vol. 5, Hippocampus Press, New York (NY) 2006, ISBN 0-9761592-3-6 , pass.
  2. ^ HP Lovecraft : In Memoriam: Henry St. Clair Whitehead. In: ST Joshi (Ed.): HP Lovecraft · Collected Essays. Vol. 5, Hippocampus Press, New York (NY) 2006, ISBN 0-9761592-3-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Whitehead, Henry S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whitehead, Henry St. Clair
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American horror writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Elizabeth , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1932
Place of death Dunedin , Florida