6/12/2023 0 Comments Voodoo Tales by Henry S. Whitehead![]() ![]() Barlow would later describe Whitehead as a member of "the serious Weird Tales school".Many of Whitehead's stories are set on the Virgin Islands and draw on the history and folklore of the region. In his introduction to the collection Jumbee, R. Lovecraft, Whitehead published stories from 1924 onward in Adventure, Black Mask, Strange Tales, and especially Weird Tales. Croix, Whitehead gathered the material he was to use in his tales of the supernatural. He served as Archdeacon of the Virgin Islands from 1921 to 1929. ![]() ![]() From 1918 to 1919 he was Pastor of the Children, Church of St. ![]() From 1913 to 1917 he served as rector in Christ's Church, Middletown, Connecticut. During 1912-1913 he worked as a clergyman in Torrington, Connecticut. He later attended Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut, and in 1912 he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church. As a young man he led an active and worldly life in the first decade of the 20th century, playing football at Harvard University, editing a Reform democratic newspaper in Port Chester, New York, and serving as commissioner of athletics for the AAU. Whitehead was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on March 5, 1882, and graduated from Harvard University in 1904 (in the same class as Franklin D. Henry Whitehead was an American Episcopal minister and author of horror and fantasy fiction. ![]()
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