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,

thumb|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)

See also

  • List of horror fiction authors

References

Sources

  • Cave, Hugh B., Escapades of the Eel, Chicago: Tattered Pages Press, 1977 ()
  • Dill, Timothy Ray, "An Interview with Hugh Cave" (PDF), Pulp Fiction Monthly, January 1997
  • The FictionMags Index
  • Parente, Audrey., Pulp Man's Odyssey: The Hugh B. Cave Story, [Mercer Island, WA] Starmont House, Inc., 1988
  • The Phoenix Award
  • "Published Pulp Stories by Hugh B. Cave" at Black Mask Magazine
  • Williams, John, "Hugh B. Cave: Author of horror, crime, fantasy and adventure from pulp fiction's golden era", obituary in the Guardian, 10 July 2004.