William fryer harvey biography

W. F. Harvey

English writer

W.&#;F. Harvey

Born	William Fryer Harvey ()14 April Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Died	4 June () (aged&#;52) Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England
Occupation	Short story writer
Nationality	English

William Fryer HarveyAM (14 April – 4 June ), known bring in W. F. Harvey, was potent English writer of short make-believe, most notably in the ghoulish and horror genres. Among emperor best-known stories are "August Heat" () and "The Beast tally up Five Fingers" (), described outdo horror historian Les Daniels rightfully "minor masterpieces".^[1]^[2]^[3]

Early life

Born into grand wealthy Quaker family in City, West Yorkshire, he attended distinction QuakerBootham School in Yorkshire ground Leighton Park School in Boulevard before going on to Balliol College, Oxford. He took pure degree in medicine at City. Ill health dogged him, nevertheless, and he devoted himself put up personal projects such as coronet first book of short folklore, Midnight House ().^[3]

His brother was Thomas Edmund Harvey, MP.

Service in World War I

In Earth War I he initially connected the Friends' Ambulance Unit, on the contrary later served as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Navy, spreadsheet received the Albert Medal tend Lifesaving.^[4] He received lung wound during his award-winning rescue keep going. The damage troubled him pull out the rest of his perk up, but he continued to get on both short stories and diadem cheerful and good-natured memoir We Were Seven ().^[3]

Religious beliefs

Harvey was a practising Quaker.^[4]

Post-war career

Before primacy war he had shown club in adult education, on ethics staff of the Working Hands College, Fircroft, Selly Oak, Metropolis. He returned to Fircroft show , becoming Warden, but get ahead of ill-health forced his retirement.

In he published a second solicitation of short stories, The Living thing with Five Fingers, and resolve he published a third, Moods and Tenses. He lived sentence Switzerland with his wife espousal much of this time, on the other hand nostalgia for his home society caused his return to England.

Death

He moved to Letchworth sketch and died there in cram the age of After undiluted funeral service at the community Friends Meeting House Harvey was buried in the churchyard chastisement St Mary the Virgin feature Old Letchworth.^[5]

Posthumous publications

The release sight the film The Beast warmth Five Fingers (), directed tough Robert Florey and starring Pecker Lorre, inspired by what was perhaps his most famous delighted praised short story, caused excellent resurgence of interest in Harvey's work. In a posthumous division collection of his stories, The Arm of Mrs Egan roost Other Stories, appeared, including unembellished set of twelve stories residue in manuscript at the every time of his death, headed "Twelve Strange Cases".

In Wordsworth Editions printed an omnibus volume wages Harvey's stories, titled The Creature with Five Fingers, in tight Tales of Mystery and nobleness Supernatural series (ISBN&#;). The amount contains 45 stories and change introduction by David Stuart Davies.

Publications

Midnight House and Other Tales ()
The Misadventures of Athelstan Digby ()
A Conversation About God (), with William Fearon Halliday
The Brute with Five Fingers and Block out Tales ()
Quaker Byways and Attention to detail Papers ()
Moods and Tenses: Tales ()
The Mysterious Mr. Badman ()
John Rutty of Dublin, Quaker Physician (), reprinted from The Friends' Quarterly Examiner
We Were Seven ()
Caprimulgus ()
Mr. Murray and the Boococks ()
Midnight Tales () – straighten up selection of twenty macabre tales from earlier collections, published strong J. M. Dent
The Arm spend Mrs. Egan and Other Stories () – previously uncollected fanciful, mainly mysteries, published by Enumerate. M. Dent
The Double Eye (), introduction by Richard Dalby
The Animal with Five Fingers: Supernatural Stories (), selected and introduced uncongenial David Stuart Davies, published rough Wordsworth Editions

References

^Daniels, Les (). Living in Fear: A History go together with Horror in the Mass Media. Boston: Da Capo Press. possessor. ISBN&#;
^Searles, A. L. (). "The Short Fiction of Harvey". Soupзon Magill, Frank N., ed., Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, Vol 3. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Metropolis Press. pp. – ISBN&#;
^ ^a^b^cDalby, Richard (). "William Fryer Harvey". In Bleiler, E. F., ed., Supernatural Fiction Writers. New York: Scribner's. pp. – ISBN&#;
^ ^a^bBowers, Bill, ed. (). Classic Spirit Stories: Eighteen Spine-Chilling Tales be more or less Terror and the Supernatural. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press. p. ISBN&#;
^Wilson, Scott (). Resting Places: Justness Burial Places of More Amaze 14, Famous Persons (3rd&#;ed.). President, NC: McFarland. p.&#; ISBN&#;.