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Hazel Heald
1896–1961
A pulp-era writer from Massachusetts, she is best remembered for eerie, fast-moving tales published in the 1930s and for her connection to H. P. Lovecraft. Her work sits right at the crossroads of classic magazine horror and the early Lovecraft circle.
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The horror in the burying-ground
by Hazel Heald, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
About the author
Hazel Heald was an American pulp fiction writer born on April 6, 1896, and she lived in Somerville, Massachusetts. She wrote weird and horror fiction during the magazine era, when short, vivid stories were a main way readers discovered fantasy and terror.
She is most often associated with H. P. Lovecraft, who worked with her on several stories that appeared under her name, including The Horror in the Museum, Winged Death, Out of the Aeons, The Man of Stone, and The Horror in the Burying-Ground. Because of that collaboration, her name remains closely tied to the wider Lovecraftian tradition.
Heald died on February 4, 1961. Even though she is sometimes treated as a footnote in Lovecraft history, her byline is attached to some memorable pieces of pulp horror, and readers interested in the magazine world of early weird fiction still seek out her stories.