Hazel Heald (April 6, 1896February 4, 1961) was a

pulp fiction ''Pulp Fiction'' is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary.See, e.g., King (2002), pp. 185–7; ; Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhame ...

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, who lived in

Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a total population of 81, ...

. She is perhaps best known for collaborating with American

horror fiction Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which is in the realm of speculative fiction. Literary historian J ...

writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Biography

Heald was born the

daughter A daughter is a female offspring; a girl or a woman in relation to her parents. Daughterhood is the state of being someone's daughter. The male counterpart is a son. Analogously the name is used in several areas to show relations between group ...

of William W. Heald and Oraetta J. Drake in 1896.Index of Monmouth, Maine Cemeteries (color-coded)
/ref> She is buried at Lakeview Cemetery in

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Collaborations

The Man of Stone The Man of Stone (''Omul de piatră'') is a Romanian fairy tale collected by Petre Ispirescu in ''Legende sau basmele românilor''.Julia Collier Harris, Rea Ipcar, ''The Foundling Prince & Other Tales: Translated from the Roumanian of Petre Isp ...

(1932) * The Horror in the Burying-Ground (1933) *

The Horror in the Museum "The Horror in the Museum" is a short story ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for Somerville, MA writer Hazel Heald in October 1932, published in 1933. It is one of five stories Lovecraft revised for Heald. The story has been reprinted in several c ...

(1933) * Winged Death (

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). "My share in it is something like 90 to 95 %", wrote Lovecraft to

August Derleth August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the ...

, of this over -the -top comic-horror story. *

Out of the Aeons "Out of the Aeons" is a short story by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, a writer from Somerville, Massachusetts. First published in the April 1935 issue of '' Weird Tales'' magazine, it was one of five stories Lovecraft revised f ...

(1935)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Heald, Hazel 1896 births 1961 deaths Writers from Somerville, Massachusetts Cthulhu Mythos writers Pulp fiction writers 20th-century American women writers