{{Short description|American writer}} thumb|Hazel Heald {{circa|1932}} '''Hazel Heald''' (April 6, 1896{{spaced ndash}}February 4, 1961)<ref name="findagrave">{{cite web |title=Hazel Drake Heald |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62317236/hazel-heald |website=Find a Grave |access-date=31 October 2021 |ref=findagrave}}</ref> was a pulp fiction writer who lived in Somerville, Massachusetts.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} She is known for collaborating with American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft.<ref>{{cite book|author=Eric Leif Davin|title=Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965|url=https://archive.org/details/partnersinwonder0000davi|url-access=registration|year=2006|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-1267-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/partnersinwonder0000davi/page/385 385]}}</ref>
==Biography== Heald was born the daughter of William W. Heald and Oraetta J. Drake in 1896.<ref>[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mekenneb/moncems.htm Index of Monmouth, Maine Cemeteries (color-coded)]</ref> She is buried at Lakeview Cemetery in Maine.<ref name="findagrave" />
==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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} * "Out of the Aeons" (1935)
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== External links == {{wikisource|works=or|Hazel Heald}} * {{ISFDB name|1764}} * {{Find a Grave|62317236|Hazel Drake Heald}} * [http://www.levisagevert.com/bibliographie-auteurs/auteurs-h/auteurs-h/h0034.html] {{Authority control}}
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