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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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31 | [[/folder]] |
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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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