Hazel Heald

Hazel Heald c. 1932

Hazel Heald (April 6, 1896 – February 4, 1961)[1] was a pulp fiction writer, who lived in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is perhaps best known for collaborating with American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft.[2]

Biography

Heald was born the daughter of William W. Heald and Oraetta J. Drake in 1896.[3] She is buried at Lakeview Cemetery in Maine.[1]

Collaborations

• "The Man of Stone" (1932)
• "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" (1933)
• "The Horror in the Museum" (1933)
• "Winged Death" (1934). "My share in it is something like 90 to 95%", wrote Lovecraft to August Derleth, of this over-the-top comic-horror story.
• "Out of the Aeons" (1935)

References

1. "Hazel Drake Heald". Find a Grave. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
2. ThriftBooks. "Hazel Heald Books | List of books by author Hazel Heald". ThriftBooks. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
3. Index of Monmouth, Maine Cemeteries (color-coded)

External links

• Hazel Heald at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Hazel Drake Heald at Find a Grave
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• Eric Leif Davin (2006). Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965. Lexington Books. p. 385. ISBN 978-0-7391-1267-0.