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3	Henry St. Clair Whitehead (born March 5th, 1882 - died November 23rd 1932) was an Episcopal minister, and an author of fantasy and horror fiction.
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5	He graduated from [[UsefulNotes/IvyLeague Harvard University]] in 1904, in the same class as UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt. He was an active young man, playing [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball football]] at Harvard, editing a reform Democratic newspaper in Port Chester, NY, and serving as Commissioner of Athletics for the Amateur Athletic Union.
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7	Later he attended Berkeley Divinity School in Middleton CT, and in 1912 was ordained an Episcopal Deacon. He served as a pastor in New York City,
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9	Then, in 1921, he became the Episcopal Archdeacon for the [[UsefulNotes/UnitedStatesVirginIslands Virgin]] [[UsefulNotes/BritishVirginIslands Islands]], serving in this post until 1929 Living on St. Croix, he gathered information on the supernatural which he would later use in his speculative fiction.
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11	From 1924 on, Whitehead published stories in various pulps, most notably ''Magazine/WeirdTales''. He became a friend of Creator/HPLovecraft, and both influenced by and influencing his fellow weird fiction writers.
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13	He died in 1932, in Dunedin FL, apparently of a stroke or fall.
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15	!!Works by Henry S. Whitehead include:
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17	* "Literature/TheChadbourneEpisode" (1933, published posthumously, short story). A Gerald Canevin tale set in Chadbourne that concerns [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghouls]].
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19	[[folder:"Across The Gulf" (1926)]]
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21	A man is saved from danger by a warning from his mother's ghost.
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23	* AuthorAvatar: Dr. [=MacDonald's=] life and personality are quite similar to Whitehead's own.
24	* DreamWalker: His mother appears to Dr. [=MacDonald=] in his dreams.
25	* FriendlyGhost: Her intentions are wholly benign.
26	* MamaBear: The mother comes back from beyond the grave to save her son.
27	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: DreamWalker FriendlyGhost with [[{{Seers}} precognition]].
28	* PoisonMushroom: Dr. [=MacDonald=] accidentally ingests these: thanks to the warning he is prompt to self-administer an emetic and thus survive.
29	* [[{{Seers}} Precogniton]]: She warns him of a ''future'' menace.
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33	[[folder: "The Shut Room" (1930)]]
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35	Gerald Canevin, occult investigator, looks into the haunting of "The Coach and Horses Inn" on the Brighton Road in England.
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37	* TheHighwayman: In life, Simon Forrester was a perhaps realistically-thuggish variant on the classic romantic model
38	* ICallItVera: Forrester has jocularly named his twin horse pistols "Jem" and "Jack."
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