Howard Philips (born 1980) is an American writer of coastal horror and uncanny fiction. Raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he spent his teens working nights on scallop boats and days volunteering at the Whaling Museum archives, a collision of labor and lore that shaped his fascination with the sea's buried histories. After earning a BA in folklore at the University of Maine and an MLIS from Simmons University, he worked as a municipal archivist in Providence before turning to writing full-time in 2016. His stories have appeared in small-press magazines and regional anthologies, earning the Melville Quay Prize and the Seams & Salt Award. He lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he co-runs a community radio program about maritime superstition and hikes the salt marshes with a black mutt named Pilchard.
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