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Henry S. Whitehead

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Henry S. Whitehead

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Full Name: Henry St. Clair Whitehead
Born: March 5, 1882
Died: November 23, 1932
Occupation: Writer
Nationality: American
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Biography

Henry St. Clair Whitehead (March 5, 1882--November 23, 1932) was an American writer of horror fiction and fantasy. He attended Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut, and was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1912. From 1918 to 1919 he was Pastor of the Children, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York City. He served as acting archdeacon of the Virgin Islands from 1921 to 1929. While there, living on the island of St. Croix, Whitehead gathered the material he was to use in his tales of the supernatural. A correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft, Whitehead published stories from 1924 onward in Adventure, Black Mask, Strange Tales, and especially Weird Tales; in his introduction to Jumbee, R. H. Barlow would later describe Whitehead as a member of "the serious Weird Tales school". Whitehead's supernatural fiction was partially modelled on the work of Edward Lucas White and William Hope Hodgson.


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