Merril-approved 1959 stories by F Harvey, Z Henderson & P E High

After six or so blog posts about 1920s speculative fiction, let's peek in on the mid-century with Judith Merril and read three more stories she recommended in the back of her fifth Year's Best anthology under the heading "Honorable Mentions." We started the "H"s last time, like a month ago, when we read stories by Harry Harrison, Laurence M. Janifer (working undercover as "Larry M. Harris"), W. T. Haggert, and Jim Harmon. Today we'll finish up the "H"s with three stories. Merril also gave the nod to Robert A. Heinlein's "All You Zombies--," but we already blogged about that one in 2019, when we sampled an anthology of "Great Science Fiction." That 2019 blog post covered work by three titans of SF, Heinlein, Ted Sturgeon and Ray Bradbury, while today's blog post is about three lesser figures, but your humble blogger is fickle and idiosyncratic and the vast library of work we call speculative fiction is riddled with hidden gems, so it is not impossible that I will today enjoy these…