Hal Chibbett
(February 19, 1900 – February 23, 1978)
Harold Stanley Walter 'Hal' Chibbett was a UK fan from London active in the 1940s. He attended the Eastercon in 1944 and was a member of the Science Fiction Association (SFA). Bill Temple described him in Novae Terrae #26 as the 'London Branch's amateur magician and spook-hunter'. Gus Willmorth writing in Fan Slants #2 in 1944 said he was 'of middle age and interested in psychic research. He conducts chain letters on various allied matters.'
He is mentioned as a new member of the SFA in Novae Terrae #18 in November 1937 and #21 notes him (Mr. H. S. W. Chibbett, Secretary of 'The Probe[1]') as among 'the distinguished s-f personalities who have promised to attend' the Second British Convention in 1938 although there is no evidence that he was present.
He continued to attend SFA meetings in London during the Second World War, sometimes with his wife, fellow fan, Lily Chibbett, and they both attended the Bombcon gathering in September 1941. He was credited with introducing the chain letter to London fandom but that turned out to be a mistake and he had rather borrowed the idea from Arthur C. Clarke and imported it to The Probe. During the war he served as a fire-watcher.
In 1946 he attended at least one London British Fantasy Society group meeting although it's not clear that he was a member and he was present at the Whitcon in 1948.
He published a handful of short fiction.
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- ↑ Seemingly a psychic research organisation or perhaps its journal.
