C. E. Howard

C. E. Howard is the name printed beneath “The Parlor Cemetery” in the April 1923 issue of Weird Tales. That credit is clear; the personal record behind it is not. The sources consulted for this page have not established Howard’s full name, dates, place of birth or other occupation. Initials alone do not establish a gender or a connection to another writer with the same surname, so the entry keeps the printed form of the byline.

The issue describes the story as “A Grisly Satire.” Its narrator goes door to door gathering information for a city directory and meets a woman who keeps her cremated husbands’ ashes in a row of household urns. The premise gives the short piece its title and its uneasy comic turn. These details belong to Howard’s fiction, not to a biography of the person who wrote it. The surviving magazine pages provide an exact title, credit, issue and page; beyond that publication trace, the identity remains unresolved in the record used here. This page records what can be responsibly attached to the name without filling the gaps with guesswork.