author
Henry S. (Henry St. Clair) Whitehead
1882–1932
A clergyman with a taste for the uncanny, he brought Caribbean folklore and lived island experience into early American weird fiction. His stories helped give pulp-era horror a voice that felt both atmospheric and unusually grounded.
2 Audiobooks
The trap
by Henry S. (Henry St. Clair) Whitehead, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
The thin match
by Henry S. (Henry St. Clair) Whitehead
About the author
Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1882, Henry St. Clair Whitehead was an Episcopal minister as well as a writer of horror and fantasy. He studied at Harvard and later became closely associated with the church, but he is best remembered today for the strange tales he began publishing in the 1920s.
Whitehead wrote for pulp magazines including Weird Tales, where his fiction stood out for its use of Caribbean settings, local folklore, and supernatural themes. Time spent in the Virgin Islands shaped much of his work, and that firsthand knowledge gave stories such as his “Jumbee” tales a vivid sense of place. He was also a correspondent and friend of H. P. Lovecraft, and the two writers moved in the same early weird-fiction circle.
He died in 1932, leaving behind a relatively small but distinctive body of work. For listeners who enjoy classic supernatural fiction, Whitehead offers a blend of ghost story, regional lore, and pulp-era imagination that still feels fresh.