Hugh B. Cave

Hugh Cave circa 1935.

(1910 - 2004) U.S. Author best known for his horror and supernatural stories. He began writing his career writing for a broad range of pulp fiction genres including the Weird Menace genre and the Hard Boiled Detective genre.

During the 1930's and 1940's, Hugh Cave created over 800 pulp fiction stories. Quickly, Mr. Cave became one of the top pulp writers who was qualified to write in most any genre for all of the top tier magazines. Although he is most famous today for his work in the Weird Menace genre, he produced a vast amount of material in many areas.

After the pulps, Mr. Cave's story-telling moved into the mainstream slick magazine market. Since the 1970's, Mr. Cave created a number of mystery and dark fantasy stories for the mainstream paperback market. His writing career continues today with stories appearing in magazines such as Cemetary Dance and a number of new novels.

Interviews with Mr. Cave:

Dark Doors of Doom by Hugh B. Cave
From the pen of Hugh B. Cave, under the pen name of Justin Case, comes three stories originally published in Spicy Mystery, Spicy Adventure, and Speed Mystery.

Dark Doors of Doom where evil strikes hardest at it's own kind. House of Deathless Shadows wh ... read more

The Stinging 'Nting by Hugh B. Cave
Rescued from obscurity and resurrected from the pages of the rare pulp magazines Man Stories and Far East Adventure Stories, these tales are guaranteed to transport you back to a time when the world was a much broader place. A time when the unexplainable mysteries ... read more

Cave of a Thousand Tales: The Life and Times of Hugh B. Cave by Milt Thomas

One of the most successful and most prolific writers to come out of the pulp era, Hugh B. Cave lived a full and varied life before his passing in July of 2004. Cave had many-a-story to tell about himself, and he did through many taped interviews with Milt Thomas, revealing a ... read more

Come Into My Parlor by Hugh B. Cave

Hugh B. Cave was one of the most popular and prolific writers during the Golden Age of the Pulp Magazines between the late 1920's and the early 1940's. His name on the cover of Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, Weird Tales, Short Stories, Clues, Argosy, Horror Story, B ... read more

Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave

Long before he became the author of polished romances for the slick magazines, of best-seller novels and firsthand-researched travel books -- Hugh B. Cave wrote some of the most grisly and chilling horror stories ever to appear in the pulps. Crawling forth from the Depression ... read more

The Evil Returns by Hugh B. Cave

RECIPIENT OF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS FROM
THE INTERNATIONAL HORROR GUILD,
THE HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION,
AND
THE WORLD FANTASY ASSOCIATION!

"Hugh B. Cave is legendary." -- Hellnotes

Haiti. In this this l ... read more

The Restless Dead by Hugh B. Cave
A curse lingers over the Everol mansion -- a voodoo curse, born of evil, steeped in blood. The tormented family who lives in this house of horrors is beset by insanity, visions... and death. They have shut themselves off from the world, allowing no one to trespass on their blight ... read more

Replica: Magic Carpet April 1933 by Magic Carpet

Continuing the tradition of Oriental Stories, this issue of Magic Carpet Magazine includes:

"The Desert Host", slave pens in mystic Babylon by Hugh B. Cave

"The Vagabond-at-Arms", a swashbuckling soldier of fortune, by ... read more

Replica: Magic Carpet January 1933 by Magic Carpet

Continuing the tradition of Oriental Stories, this issue of Magic Carpet Magazine includes:

"The Master of Dragons", a Chinese mystery story by H. Bedford Jones.

"The Dragoman's Pilgrimage", a tale of the slave mart of ... read more

Replica: Spicy Mystery August 1936 by Spicy Mystery
Page for page replica from Girasol Collectables for the Spicy Mystery August 1936 issue. Containing a cover story from Justin Case (Hugh B. Cave) featuring The Eel and stories from Robert Leslie Bellem, E. Hoffman Price and others.

From The Evil Flame by Justin ... read more