Hugh B. Cave

Hugh Barnett Cave (11 July 1910 – 27 June 2004) was an American writer of various genres, perhaps best remembered for his works of horror, weird menace and science fiction. After graduating, Cave attended Boston University on a scholarship but had to leave when his father was severely injured. He worked initially for a self-publishing press, the only regular job he would ever have. He quit this position at age 20 to write for a living. His remains were cremated.

Legacy A biography of Cave entitled Pulp Man's Odyssey: The Hugh B. Cave Story by Audrey Parente was published by Starmont House (Mercer Island, WA) in 1987.

Writing career Sources differ as to when Cave sold his first story: some say it was "I Name Thee, Cave" while he still attended Brookline High School,

As "Justin Case", Cave wrote the cover story in the August 1936 Spicy Mystery Stories.

Novels

Fishermen Four; an Outdoor Adventure Story (1942) Drums of Revolt (1957) The Cross on the Drum (1959) Black Sun (1960) The Mission (1960) Run, Shadow, Run (1968) Larks Will Sing (1969) Legion of the Dead (1979) The Nebulon Horror (1980) The Evil (1981) Shades of Evil (1982) Disciples of Dread (1988) Uncharted Voyage (1989) The Lower Deep (1990) Lucifer's Eye (1991) Isle of the Whisperers (1999) The Dawning (2000) The Evil Returns (2001) The Restless Dead (2002) The Mountains of Madness (2004) Serpents in the Sun (2011)

Collections

The Witching Lands; Tales of the West Indies (1962) Murgunstrumm and Others (1977) The Corpse Maker (1988) Death Stalks the Night (1995) Bitter/Sweet (1996) The Dagger of Tsiang and Other Tales of Adventure (1997) Escapades of the Eel (1997) The Door Below (1997) Bottled in Blonde; the Peter Kane Detective Stories (2000) The Lady Wore Black, and Other Weird Cat Tails (2000) Long Live the Dead; Tales from Black Mask (Crippen & Landru, 2000) Officer Coffey Stories (2000) Come into My Parlor; Tales from Detective Fiction Weekly (Crippen & Landru, 2002) House of the Restless Dead and Other Stories (2011) Devils in the Dark: Terror Trios Featuring Hugh B. Cave (2012) The Complete Cases of Peter Kane (2018)

Juveniles The Voyage (1988) Conquering Kilmarnie (1989)

Short stories

"Two were left" "The Corpse on the Grating" (1930) "The Strange Case of No. 7" (1930) "The Murder Machine" (1930) "The Affair of the Clutching Hand" (1931) "The Door of Doom" (1931) "Murgunstrumm" (1932) "The Ghoul Gallery" (1932) "The Brotherhood of Blood" (1932) "Stragella" (1932) "Spawn of Inferno" (1932) "The City of Crawling Death" (1932) "The Infernal Shadow" (1932) "The Watcher in the Green Room" (1933) "Dead Man's Belt" (1933) "The Crawling Curse" (1933) "The Cult of the White Ape" (1933) "Dark Slaughter" (1933) "The Black Gargoyle" (1934) "The Prophecy" (1934) "The Isle of Dark Magic" (1934) "The Grisly Death" (1934) "Death's Loving Arms" (1934) "The Pain Room" (1934) "Unholy Night!" (1934) "The Corpse Crypt" (1934) "Terror Island" (1934) "Horror in Wax" (1935) "Maxon's Mistress" (1935) "The Flame Fiend" (1935) "Mistress of the Dead" (1935) "Satan's Mistress" (1935) "Death Holds for Ransom" (1935) "Death Calls from the Madhouse" (1935) "Death Stalks the Night" (1935) "Imp of Satan" (1935) "Prey of the Nightborn" (1936) "The Evil Flame" (1936) "Modern Nero" (1936) "The Crawling Ones" (1936) "Doom Door" (1936) "Disturb Not the Dead" (1936) "The Strange Death of Ivan Gromleigh" (1937) "Tomb for the Living" (1937) "My Pupil-the Idiot!" (1937) "The Red Trail to Zanzibar" (1938) "Six Were Slain" (1938) "Servant of Satan" (1938) "The Death Watch" (1939) "Boomerang" (1939) "Black Bondage" (1939) "Death's Door" (1940) "The Hostage" (1940) "Beneath the Vapor Veil" (1941) "The Thirsty Thing" (1941) "The Whisperers" (1942) "Purr of a Cat" (1942) (as Justin Case) "The Caverns of Time" (1942) "Calavan" (1942) "The Thing from the Swamp" (1942) "Tomorrow is Forever" (1943) "The Red Trail to Zanzibar" (1950) (as John Starr) "Many Happy Returns" (1966) "The Sandmaker's Door" (1969) "Ladies in Waiting" (1975) "From the Lower Deep" (1979) "The Door Below" (1981) "A Place of No Return" (1981) "Always Together" (1982) "One to Chicago" (1983) "What Say the Frogs Now, Jenny?" (1983) "Final Game" (1983) "Just the Two of Us" (1984) "Damballa's Slough" (1984) "Of Time and Space" (1985) "Damsels for the Damned" (1985) "Of Time & Space" (1985) "After the Funeral" (1986) "The Corpse-Maker" (1988) "The House of Evil" (1988) "The Barricade" (1988) "Disturb Not the Dead" (1988) "The Thing from the Swamp" (1988) "My Pupil – The Idiot!" (1988) "The Hard-Luck Kid" (1992) "The Mountains of Time" (1993) "Mission to Margal" (1993) "Another Kind of Enchanted Cottage" (1993) "Don't Open the Door!" (1994) "The Kutting Edge" (1994) (as Justin Case) "Gordie's Pets" (1994) "A Honeymoon to Remember" (1994) "The Whisperers" (1994) "Chernick" (1994) "Just Another H.P.L. Horror Story" (1994) "Vanishing Point" (1994) "Genesis II" (1994) "A Dying at Blackwater" (1995) "Forever Is a Long Long Time" (1995) "The Law" (1995) "First Love" (1995) "Nights in the Mountains of Haiti" (1995) "Five to Get Ready, Two to Go" (1996) "The Blade and the Claw" (1996) "By Heaven!" (1996) "Aiyana and the Gallant Rider" (1996) "...And Out" (1997) "A Gift of Magic" (1997) "The Second Time Around" (1997) "Inside the Earth, Under the Sea" (1999) "A Voice in the Wild" (1999)

Nonfiction Long Were the Nights; the Saga of PT Squadron "X" in the Solomons (1943) "The Fightin'est Ship"; the Story of the Cruiser "Helena" (1944) (with C. G. Morris) We Build, We Fight! The Story of the Seabees (1944) I Took the Sky Road (1945) (with Norman Mickey Miller) Wings Across the World; the Story of the Air Transport Command (1945) Haiti, Highroad to Adventure (1952) Four Paths to Paradise; a Book About Jamaica (1961) Magazines I Remember; Some Pulps, Their Editors, and What It Was Like to Write for Them (1994)