W. F. Harvey

William Fryer Harvey, known as W. F. Harvey, was an English writer of short stories, most often macabre and horror tales. His best known stories are August Heat, from 1910, and The Beast with Five Fingers, from 1919. The second was later made into a film. Harvey was a Quaker who worked in a family business, and he wrote his stories alongside that life. His quiet, plain telling helps the strange details land with force.