
WHITEHEAD, HENRY S(t. Clair) (1882-1932); Episcopalean minister, expert on West Indian social customs and life; very popular among the readers of Weird Tales magazine, where his literate tales of creepiness were exceptional. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey; died in Dunedin, Florida. (chron.)
1905
Not To the Swift, Outdoors Magazine, December 1905.
1923
Christabel, (ss) Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Apr 1923
The Wonder-Phone, People’s Story Magazine, April 1923.
The Intarsia Box, (ss) Adventure Nov 10 1923
1924
Tea Leaves, (ss) Weird Tales May-Jul 1924
The Door, (ss) Weird Tales Nov 1924; Weird Tales Aug 1933; 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
1925
Sea Change, (ss) Weird Tales Feb 1925
The Cunning of the Serpent, (ss) Adventure May 20 1925; "Wisdom of Serpents," Royal Magazine, May 1927; 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
The Gladstone Bag, (ss) Black Mask Sep 1925
The Thin Match, (ss) Weird Tales Mar 1925
The Wonderful Thing, (ss) Weird Tales Jul 1925
The Fireplace, (ss) Weird Tales Jan 1925; Weird Tales Feb 1935; Avon Ghost Reader, ed. Anon., New York: Avon 1946; Perturbed Spirits, ed. R. C. Bull, London: Arthur Barker 1954; Perturbed Spirits, ed. R.C. Bull, London: Dragon Books 1958; Ghosts & Ghastlies, ed. Helen Hoke, New York: Franklin Watts 1976; Nightmares in Dixie, ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, August House 1987; Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror, ed. John Betancourt & Robert Weinberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
1926
Jumbee, (ss) Weird Tales Sep 1926, Weird Tales Feb 1938; A Chill to the Sunlight, ed. Rick Ferreira, London: William Kimber 1978; Zombie!, ed. Peter Haining, Target 1985
The Projection of Armand Dubois [Gerald Canevin], (ss) Weird Tales Oct 1926
Gahd Laff!, (ss) Black Mask Jun 1926
Across the Gulf, (ss) Weird Tales May 1926; 100 Wild Little Weird Tales, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994 (Weinberg)
1927
The Shadows, (nv) Weird Tales Nov 1927; The Sleeping and the Dead, ed. August Derleth, Pellegrini Cudahy 1947; Avon Fantasy Reader 14, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, Avon Novels Inc. 1950; The Unquiet Grave, ed. August Derleth, Four Square Books 1963; To Sleep, Perchance to Dream... Nightmare, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, New York: Barnes & Noble 1993
West India Lights Canevin, Mystery Magazine, April 1927
The Left Eye, (ss) Weird Tales Jun 1927; Terror at Night, ed. Herbert Williams, Avon 1947
Obi in the Caribbean, The Commonweal, 1927
1928
The Cult of the Skull, (ss) Weird Tales Dec 1928
1929
The Return of Milt Drennan, (ss) Mystery Stories Jan 1929
Black Tancrède [Gerald Canevin], (ss) Weird Tales Jun 1929
Sweet Grass, (ss) Weird Tales Jul 1929
The Lips, (ss) Weird Tales Sep 1929; When Evil Wakes, ed. August Derleth, London: Souvenir Press 1963; The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, ed. Robert Aickman, Fontana 1970; The Devil’s Children, ed. Michel Parry, Futura 1974; 65 Great Tales of Horror, ed. Mary Danby, London: Octopus Books 1981
The People of Pan [Gerald Canevin], (nv) Weird Tales Mar 1929; Tales of the Occult, ed. Jack C. Wolf & Barbara H. Wolf, Fawcett Crest 1975
1930
The Shut Room [Gerald Canevin], (nv) Weird Tales Apr 1930; Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg & Robert E. Weinberg, Crown/Bonanza 1988
The Tabernacle, (ss) Weird Tales Jan 1930; 100 Creepy Little Creature Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994 (Weinberg)
1931
Passing of a God [Gerald Canevin], (ss) Weird Tales Jan 1931; Weird Tales Dec 1938; Weird Tales Jul 1954; At the Dead of Night, ed. Christine Thomson, London: Selwyn & Blount 1931; Still Not at Night, ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, London: Arrow Books 1962; Weird Tales, ed. Peter Haining, Neville Spearman 1976; Weird Tales Vol. 1, ed. Peter Haining, Sphere 1978; Weird Tales, ed. Peter Haining, Xanadu 1990
The Black Beast [Gerald Canevin], (nv) Adventure Jul 15 1931; Magazine of Horror Winter 1965
Cassius [Gerald Canevin], (nv) Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Nov 1931; Fear and Trembling, ed. Alfred Hitchcock, Dell 1948; Magazine of Horror Sep 1964; Sleep No More, ed. August Derleth, Farrar & Rinehart 1944; Fear and Trembling, ed. Alfred Hitchcock, Dell 1948; Sleep No More, ed. August Derleth, London: Panther Books 1964; Magazine of Horror Sep 1964; Horror Omnibus, ed. Kurt Singer, London: W.H. Allen 1965; Stories from Sleep No More, ed. August Derleth, New York: Bantam Books 1967
The Tree-Man [Gerald Canevin], (ss) Weird Tales Feb/Mar 1931; Leaves #2 1938; revised; Weird Tales (UK) V3 #1 Sep 1953
Hill Drums, (ss) Weird Tales Jun/Jul 1931
Black Terror [Gerald Canevin], (ss) Weird Tales Oct 1931
Machiavelli—Salesman, (ss) Popular Fiction Magazine Mar 1931
1932
Mrs. Lorriquer [Gerald Canevin], (nv) Weird Tales Apr 1932
The Trap [Gerald Canevin], (nv) Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Mar 1932; Avon Fantasy Reader #6 1948; The Macabre Reader, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, New York: Ace Books 1959; Weird Terror Tales Fll 1970; Haunted New England, ed. Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg & Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Yankee 1988; The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, Arkham House 1989; Nursery Crimes, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993; The Loved Dead, H.P. Lovecraft & August Derleth, Carroll & Graf 1997
The Great Circle [Gerald Canevin], (na) Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Jun 1932; Bizarre Fantasy Tales Fall 1970
Seven Turns in a Hangman’s Rope, (na) Adventure Jul 15 1932; Voodoo!, ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor 1980; The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini 1981; Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini, Crown/Bonanza 1986; Pirate Ghosts of the American Coast: Stories of Hauntings at Sea, ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, August House 1988
The Great Circle, (ss) Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Jun 1932; West India Lights; Bizarre Fantasy Tales Fll 1970
No Eye-Witnesses, (ss) Weird Tales Aug 1932; Lost Fantasies #4, ed. Robert Weinberg, Chicago: Weinberg 1976; 100 Wild Little Weird Tales, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994; 100 Tiny Tales of Terror, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
Sea-Tiger, (ss) Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Oct 1932; Sea-Cursed, ed. T. Liam McDonald, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994; Arkham’s Masters of Horror, ed. Peter Ruber, Arkham House 2000
The Moon-Dial, (nv) Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Jan 1932; Magazine of Horror May 1970; Revelations From Yuggoth #3 1989; Seekers of Dreams: Masterpieces of Fantasy, ed. Douglas A. Anderson, Cold Spring Press 2005
1933
The Napier Limousine [Gerald Canevin], (nv) Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Jan 1933; Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, Issue #7, ed. Harry Bates, Wildside Press 2004
The Chadbourne Episode [Gerald Canevin], (ss) Weird Tales Feb 1933; Keep on the Light, ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, London: Selwyn & Blount 1933; Not at Night Omnibus, ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, London: Selwyn & Blount 1937; The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini 1981; Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini, Crown/Bonanza 1986
Ruby the Kid, (ss) Nickel Western Apr 1933
1946
Williamson [Gerald Canevin], (ss) West India Lights, Arkham House 1946; story written around 1910 but remained unpublished until after the author’s death. Magazine of Horror Fll 1967; The Unspeakable People, ed. Peter Haining, London: Leslie Frewin 1969
The Ravel "Pavane," Who Knocks? Twenty Masterpieces of the Spectral for the Connoisseur; Who Knocks?, ed. August Derleth, Rinehart 1946; Who Knocks?, ed. August Derleth, Panther 1964
Scar-Tissue, (ss) Amazing Jul 1946, Amazing Oct 1967; Unknown Tales of Horror, ed. Peter Haining, London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1976; Atlantis, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Signet 1988
"—In Case of Disaster Only" West India Lights 1946; 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
Bothon, (nv) Amazing Aug 1946
Litrachoor, (pm) The Writer; Omniumgathum, ed. Jonathan Bacon & Steve Troyanovich, Stygian Isle Press 1976; The Writer Etchings & Odysseys #6 1985
A Checklist of the Published Weird Stories of Henry S. Whitehead, (1882-1932)
(bi) Leaves #2 1938
"In Memoriam: Henry St. Clair Whitehead" by Anon., (ar) Weird Tales
Mar 1933
