Howard Ellis Davis (1883-1951) was a military officer and an engineer who worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Although he was born in Florida, Davis lived and worked in Georgia and Alabama. He moved to Bay Minette, Alabama, north of Mobile, in 1945 and lived there for the rest of his life.
Davis wrote more than one hundred stories and articles published in various pulp and slick magazines. His lone story for Weird Tales was The Unknown Beast, a tale of Southern swamps published in the first issue, March 1923.