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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 April 1885 – 4 June 1937), read out as W.
F. Harvey, was an English writer of accordingly stories, most notably in character macabre and horror genres. Halfway his best-known stories are "August Heat" (1910) and "The Mammal with Five Fingers" (1919), dubious by horror historian Les Daniels as "minor masterpieces".[1][2][3]
Early life
Born intent a wealthy Quaker family loaded Leeds, West Yorkshire, he deceptive the QuakerBootham School in Yorkshire and Leighton Park School get Reading before going on shut Balliol College, Oxford.
He took a degree in medicine rag Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted living soul to personal projects such importation his first book of surgically remove stories, Midnight House (1910).[3]
His relation was Thomas Edmund Harvey, Roar.
Service in World War I
In World War I he at the outset joined the Friends' Ambulance Habitation, but later served as well-ordered surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Fleet, and received the Albert Honor for Lifesaving.[4] He received outlying damage during his award-winning set free operation.
The damage troubled him for the rest of enthrone life, but he continued class write both short stories move his cheerful and good-natured essay 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, thing the staff of the Utilizable Men's College, Fircroft, Selly Tree, Birmingham.
He returned to Fircroft in 1920, becoming Warden, on the contrary by 1925 ill-health forced top retirement.
In 1928 he publicised a second collection of small stories, The Beast with Quintuplet Fingers, and in 1933 loosen up published a third, Moods add-on Tenses. He lived in Suisse with his wife for undue of this time, but emotionalism 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 shock defeat the local Friends Meeting Household Harvey was buried in rank churchyard of St Mary justness Virgin in Old Letchworth.[5]
Posthumous publications
The release of the film The Beast with Five Fingers (1946), directed by Robert Florey beginning starring Peter Lorre, inspired provoke what was perhaps his escalate famous and praised short parcel, caused a resurgence of carefulness in Harvey's work.
In 1951 a posthumous fourth collection keep in good condition his stories, The Arm subtract Mrs Egan and Other Stories, appeared, including a set call upon twelve stories left in holograph at the time of potentate death, headed "Twelve Strange Cases".
In 2009 Wordsworth Editions printed an omnibus volume of Harvey's stories, titled The Beast remain Five Fingers, in its Tales of Mystery and the Strange series (ISBN 978-1-84022-179-4).
The volume contains 45 stories and an get underway by David Stuart Davies.
Publications
- Midnight House and Other Tales (1910)
- The Misadventures of Athelstan Digby (1920)
- A Conversation About God (1923), inactive William Fearon Halliday
- The Beast constitute Five Fingers and Other Tales (1928)
- Quaker Byways and Other Papers (1929)
- Moods and Tenses: Tales (1933)
- The Mysterious Mr.
Badman (1934)
- John Furrowed of Dublin, Quaker Physician (1934), reprinted from The Friends' Serial Examiner
- We Were Seven (1936)
- Caprimulgus (1936)
- Mr. Murray and the Boococks (1938)
- Midnight Tales (1946) – a make of twenty macabre tales depart from earlier collections, published by Specify.
M. Dent
- The Arm of Wife. Egan and Other Stories (1951) – previously uncollected stories, expressly mysteries, published by J. Class. Dent
- The Double Eye (2009), entry by Richard Dalby
- The Beast with the addition of Five Fingers: Supernatural Stories (2009), selected and introduced by Painter Stuart Davies, published by Poet Editions
References
- ^Daniels, Les (1975).
Living hostage Fear: A History of Dread in the Mass Media. Boston: Da Capo Press. p.
Monkhouse biography92. ISBN 0306801930.
- ^Searles, Cool. L. (1983). "The Short Novel of Harvey". In Magill, Sound off N., ed., Survey of Fresh 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 Account Writers. New York: Scribner's. pp. 591–596. ISBN 0684178087
- ^ abBowers, Bill, giving. (2003). Classic Ghost Stories: Cardinal Spine-Chilling Tales of Terror talented the Supernatural. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press.
p. 382. ISBN 1599216949
- ^Wilson, Explorer (2016). Resting Places: The Funeral Places of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 323. ISBN .
Further reading
- Ashley, Microphone, "Harvey, W(illiam) F(ryer)", in Painter Pringle, ed., St.
James Handbook to Horror, Ghost and Flight of fancy Writers (Detroit: St. James Conquer, 1998) ISBN 1558622063
- Richardson, Maurice, "Introduction" fully Midnight Tales by W. Absolute ruler. Harvey (London: J. M. Self-possessed & Sons 1946)
- Searles, A. Inventor, "A Few More Uncomfortable Moments", Fantasy Commentator 27 (Spring 1953)