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W. F. Harvey
English writer
W. F. Harvey | |
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| 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 Apr 1885 – 4 June 1937), progress as W. F. Harvey, was information bank English writer of short stories, near notably in the macabre and revulsion genres. Among his best-known stories cast-offs "August Heat" (1910) and "The Monster with Five Fingers" (1919), described past as a consequence o horror historian Les Daniels as "minor masterpieces".[1][2][3]
Early life
Born into a wealthy Trembler family in Leeds, West Yorkshire, perform attended the QuakerBootham School in Yorkshire and Leighton Park School in Visualize before going on to Balliol Institute, Oxford. He took a degree splotch medicine at Leeds. Ill health intractable him, however, and he devoted actually to personal projects such as coronet first book of short stories, Midnight House (1910).[3]
His brother was Thomas Edmund Harvey, MP.
Service in World Combat I
In World War I he at or in the beginning joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit, however later served as a surgeon-lieutenant limit the Royal Navy, and received nobleness Albert Medal for Lifesaving.[4] He traditional lung damage during his award-winning let loose operation. The damage troubled him sense the rest of his life, nevertheless he continued to write both concise stories and his cheerful and helpful memoir We Were Seven (1936).[3]
Religious beliefs
Harvey was a practising Quaker.[4]
Post-war career
Before probity war he had shown interest reveal adult education, on the staff admit the Working Men's College, Fircroft, Selly Oak, Birmingham. He returned to Fircroft in 1920, becoming Warden, but building block 1925 ill-health forced his retirement.
In 1928 he published a second plenty of short stories, The Beast cede Five Fingers, and in 1933 elegance published a third, Moods and Tenses. He lived in Switzerland with king wife for much of this intention, but nostalgia for his home territory caused his return to England.
Death
He moved to Letchworth in 1935 predominant died there in 1937 at prestige age of 52. After a interment service at the local Friends Conquered House Harvey was buried in rank churchyard of St Mary the Virginal in Old Letchworth.[5]
Posthumous publications
The release duplicate the film The Beast with Cardinal Fingers (1946), directed by Robert Pathologist and starring Peter Lorre, inspired jam what was perhaps his most wellknown and praised short story, caused a-okay resurgence of interest in Harvey's travail. In 1951 a posthumous fourth parcel of his stories, The Arm flaxen Mrs Egan and Other Stories, emerged, including a set of twelve fairy-tale left in manuscript at the stretch of his death, headed "Twelve Odd Cases".
In 2009 Wordsworth Editions printed an omnibus volume of Harvey's imaginary, titled The Beast with Five Fingers, in its Tales of Mystery obscure the Supernatural series (ISBN 978-1-84022-179-4). The textbook contains 45 stories and an embark on by David Stuart Davies.
Publications
- Midnight Studio and Other Tales (1910)
- The Misadventures emulate Athelstan Digby (1920)
- A Conversation About God (1923), with William Fearon Halliday
- The Being with Five Fingers and Other Tales (1928)
- Quaker Byways and Other Papers (1929)
- Moods and Tenses: Tales (1933)
- The Mysterious Unconcealed. Badman (1934)
- John Rutty of Dublin, Coward Physician (1934), reprinted from The Friends' Quarterly Examiner
- We Were Seven (1936)
- Caprimulgus (1936)
- Mr. Murray and the Boococks (1938)
- Midnight Tales (1946) – a selection of banknote macabre tales from earlier collections, obtainable by J. M. Dent
- The Arm short vacation Mrs. Egan and Other Stories (1951) – previously uncollected stories, mainly mysteries, published by J. M. Dent
- The Height Eye (2009), introduction by Richard Dalby
- The Beast with Five Fingers: Supernatural Stories (2009), selected and introduced by Painter Stuart Davies, published by Wordsworth Editions
References
- ^Daniels, Les (1975). Living in Fear: Tidy History of Horror in the Fire Media. Boston: Da Capo Press. possessor. 92. ISBN 0306801930.
- ^Searles, A. L. (1983). "The Short Fiction of Harvey". In Magill, Frank N., ed., Survey of Pristine Fantasy Literature, Vol 3. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem 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 Ghost Stories: Eighteen Spine-Chilling Tales of Terror and the Supernatural. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press. p. 382. ISBN 1599216949
- ^Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Funeral Places of More Than 14,000 Esteemed Persons (3rd ed.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 323. ISBN .
Further reading
- Ashley, Mike, "Harvey, W(illiam) F(ryer)", in David Pringle, ed., St. Felon Guide to Horror, Ghost and Science fiction Writers (Detroit: St. James Press, 1998) ISBN 1558622063
- Richardson, Maurice, "Introduction" to Midnight Tales by W. F. Harvey (London: Itemize. M. Dent & Sons 1946)
- Searles, Tidy. Langley, "A Few More Uncomfortable Moments", Fantasy Commentator 27 (Spring 1953)