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

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who lived in

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. She is known for collaborating with American

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writer

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Biography

Heald was born the

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

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" (1933) * "Winged Death" (1934). "My share in it is something like 90 to 95%", wrote Lovecraft to

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, of this over-the-top comic-horror story. * " Out of the Aeons" (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