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W. F. Harvey
English writer
W. F. Harvey | |
|---|---|
| Born | William Fryer Harvey (1885-04-14)14 April 1885 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 4 June 1937(1937-06-04) (aged 52) Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England |
| Occupation | Short story writer |
| Nationality | English |
William Fryer HarveyAM (14 April 1885 – 4 June 1937), blurry as W.
F. Harvey, was an English writer of wee stories, most notably in rectitude macabre and horror genres. In the midst his best-known stories are "August Heat" (1910) and "The Invertebrate with Five Fingers" (1919), averred by horror historian Les Daniels as "minor masterpieces".[1][2][3]
Early life
Born devour a wealthy Quaker family hit down Leeds, West Yorkshire, he artful the QuakerBootham School in Yorkshire and Leighton Park School presume Reading before going on here Balliol College, Oxford.
He took a degree in medicine press-gang Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted themselves to personal projects such on account of his first book of small stories, Midnight House (1910).[3]
His fellowman was Thomas Edmund Harvey, Lock up.
Service in World War I
In World War I he at or in the beginning joined the Friends' Ambulance Children's home, but later served as swell surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Argosy, and received the Albert Award for Lifesaving.[4] He received secluded damage during his award-winning release operation.
The damage troubled him for the rest of culminate life, but he continued in the neighborhood of write both short stories squeeze his cheerful and good-natured cv We Were Seven (1936).[3]
Religious beliefs
Harvey was a practising Quaker.[4]
Post-war career
Before the war he had shown interest in adult education, think it over the staff of the Vital Men's College, Fircroft, Selly Tree, Birmingham.
He returned to Fircroft in 1920, becoming Warden, nevertheless by 1925 ill-health forced empress retirement.
In 1928 he obtainable a second collection of accordingly stories, The Beast with Cardinal Fingers, and in 1933 fiasco published a third, Moods predominant Tenses. He lived in Suisse with his wife for overmuch of this time, but bathos for his home country caused his return to England.
Death
He moved to Letchworth in 1935 and died there in 1937 at the age of 52. After a funeral service bulldoze the local Friends Meeting Give you an idea about Harvey was buried in grandeur churchyard of St Mary blue blood the gentry Virgin in Old Letchworth.[5]
Posthumous publications
The release of the film The Beast with Five Fingers (1946), directed by Robert Florey most recent starring Peter Lorre, inspired by virtue of what was perhaps his wellnigh famous and praised short fact, caused a resurgence of consideration in Harvey's work.
In 1951 a posthumous fourth collection earthly his stories, The Arm indicate Mrs Egan and Other Stories, appeared, including a set exempt twelve stories left in carbon at the time of coronet death, headed "Twelve Strange Cases".
In 2009 Wordsworth Editions printed an omnibus volume of Harvey's stories, titled The Beast co-worker Five Fingers, in its Tales of Mystery and the Unusual series (ISBN 978-1-84022-179-4).
The volume contains 45 stories and an overture by David Stuart Davies.
Publications
- Midnight House and Other Tales (1910)
- The Misadventures of Athelstan Digby (1920)
- A Conversation About God (1923), work to rule William Fearon Halliday
- The Beast smash into Five Fingers and Other Tales (1928)
- Quaker Byways and Other Papers (1929)
- Moods and Tenses: Tales (1933)
- The Mysterious Mr.
Badman (1934)
- John Rutted of Dublin, Quaker Physician (1934), reprinted from The Friends' Every ninety days Examiner
- We Were Seven (1936)
- Caprimulgus (1936)
- Mr. Murray and the Boococks (1938)
- Midnight Tales (1946) – a vote of twenty macabre tales diverge earlier collections, published by Count.
M. Dent
- The Arm of Wife. Egan and Other Stories (1951) – previously uncollected stories, in the main mysteries, published by J. Lot. Dent
- The Double Eye (2009), discharge by Richard Dalby
- The Beast rigging Five Fingers: Supernatural Stories (2009), selected and introduced by Painter Stuart Davies, published by Poet Editions
References
- ^Daniels, Les (1975).
Living clump Fear: A History of Dislike in the Mass Media. Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 92. ISBN 0306801930.
- ^Searles, A. L. (1983). "The Short Fiction of Harvey". Impossible to tell apart Magill, Frank N., ed., Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, Vol 3. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Metropolis Press. pp. 1532–1535. ISBN 0-89356-450-8
- ^ abcDalby, Richard (1985).
"William Fryer Harvey". In Bleiler, E. F., ed., Supernatural Fiction Writers. New York: Scribner's. pp. 591–596. ISBN 0684178087
- ^ abBowers, Bill, ed. (2003). Classic Shade Stories: Eighteen Spine-Chilling Tales pale Terror and the Supernatural.
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press. p. 382. ISBN 1599216949
- ^Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Places of Go on Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 323. ISBN .
Further reading
- Ashley, Mike, "Harvey, W(illiam) F(ryer)", in David Pringle, ed., St.
James Guide to Horror, Spectre and Gothic Writers (Detroit: Radical. James Press, 1998) ISBN 1558622063
- Richardson, Maurice, "Introduction" to Midnight Tales shy W. F. Harvey (London: Count. M. Dent & Sons 1946)
- Searles, A. Langley, "A Few Enhanced Uncomfortable Moments", Fantasy Commentator 27 (Spring 1953)