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
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and
science fiction
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.
[ Cave was one of the most prolific contributors to ]pulp magazines
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of the 1920s and '30s, selling an estimated 800 stories not only in the aforementioned genres but also in western, fantasy, adventure, crime, romance and non-fiction. He used a variety of pen names, notably Justin Case under which name he created the antihero The Eel. A war correspondent during World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
, Cave afterwards settled in Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispa ...
where he owned and managed a coffee
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Seeds of ...
plantation
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and continued his writing career, now specializing in novels as well as fiction and non-fiction sales to mainstream magazines.
Starting in the 1970s Cave enjoyed a resurgence in popularity when Karl Edward Wagner
Karl Edward Wagner (12 December 1945 – 14 October 1994) was an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. He ...
's Carcosa Press published ''Murgunstrumm and Others'', the first hardcover collection of Cave's pulp stories. Cave relocated to Florida and regularly published original material until about the year 2000, and won a World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the eponymous ann ...
for lifetime achievement in 1999.[
]
Life
Born in Chester
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, England, Hugh B. Cave relocated during his childhood with his family to Boston, Massachusetts, soon after the beginning of World War I
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. His first name was in honor of Hugh Walpole
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (13 March 18841 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among th ...
, a favorite author of his mother, a nurse, who had once known Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)'' The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
...
.[
Cave attended ]Brookline High School
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.[Adrian, Jack]
"Obituary: Hugh B. Cave; Prolific writer of pulp (`pure' supernatural, `Spicy', SF, romance, westerns, hard- and soft-boiled detective fiction, weird-menace and shudder- pulp) over eight decades."
''The Independent
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'', 30 June 2004. Accessed 18 April 2008. "His astonishing career spanned all but the first couple of decades of the 20th century and into the 21st, his first published writing, as a 15-year-old student at Brookline High School, Massachusetts, being a short story in The Boston Globe entitled 'Retribution'..." After graduating, Cave attended Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original cam ...
on a scholarship but had to leave when his father was severely injured. He worked initially for a self-publishing press
Self-publishing is the publication of media by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher. The term usually refers to written media, such as books and magazines, either as an ebook or as a physical copy using POD (pri ...
, the only regular job he would ever have. He quit this position at age 20 to write for a living.[
From 1932 until his death in 1997, Cave corresponded extensively with fellow pulp writer ]Carl Richard Jacobi
Carl Richard Jacobi (10 July 1908 – 25 August 1997) was an American journalist and writer. He wrote short stories in the horror and fantasy genres for the pulp magazine market, appearing in such pulps of the bizarre and uncanny as ''Thrilling'' ...
. Selections of this correspondence can be found in Cave's memoir ''Magazines I Remember''. During the 1930s, Cave lived in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, but he never met H.P. Lovecraft, who lived in nearby Providence
Providence often refers to:
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* Divine providence, divinely ordained events and outcomes in Christianity
* Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of Rhode Island in the ...
. The two engaged in a debate by correspondence (non-extant) regarding the ethics and aesthetics of writing for the pulp magazines. At least two of Cave's stories are associated with Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft, to identify ...
– "The Isle of Dark Magic" and "The Death Watch".
During World War II
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Cave travelled as a reporter around the Pacific Ocean area and in Southeast Asia. Soon after the war he relocated to the Caribbean area, spending five years in Haiti, after which he rebuilt and managed a successful coffee plantation in Jamaica. He returned to the United States during the early 1970s after the Jamaican government confiscated his plantation.
Hugh Cave was married twice, first to Margaret Long in a union that produced two sons before the couple began living apart, and to Peggy (or Peggie) Thompson, who died during 2001.
Cave was 93 when he died in Vero Beach, Florida
Vero Beach is a city in and the seat of Indian River County, Florida, United States. Vero Beach is the second most populous city in Indian River County. Abundant in beaches and wildlife, Vero Beach is located on Florida's Treasure Coast. It is thi ...
, on 27 June 2004. His remains were cremated
Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.
Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite and as an alternative to burial. In some countries, including India and Nepal, cremation on an open-air pyre ...
.
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
Brookline High School is a four-year public high school in the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. It is a part of Public Schools of Brookline. The Headmaster is Anthony Meyer who holds a Master of Education in Teaching and Curriculum from Harvard ...
,[ others cite "Island Ordeal", written at age 19 during 1929 while still working for the self-publishing press.
During his early career he contributed to such pulp magazines as '' Astounding'', '' Black Mask'', and '']Weird Tales
''Weird Tales'' is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, pri ...
''. By his own estimate, during the 1930s alone, he published approximately 800 short stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...
in nearly 100 periodicals using various pseudonyms, such as James Pitt and Margaret Hullinwall. Cave was noted especially for his horror fiction: Stefan Dziemianowicz
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* Stefan (given name)
* Stefan (surname)
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* Stefan (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
* Stefan Heym, pseudonym of German writ ...
wrote in the ''St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers,'' that Cave "transformed rural American towns into Gothic landscapes, local powerbrokers into megalomaniacal fiends."[ Of particular interest during this time was his series featuring an independent gentleman of courageous action and questionable morals known simply as The Eel. These adventures were published during the late 1930s and early 40s with the pseudonym Justin Case. Cave was also one of the most successful contributors to the ]weird menace
Weird menace is a subgenre of horror fiction and detective fiction that was popular in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and early 1940s. The weird menace pulps, also known as shudder pulps, generally featured stories in which the hero was pitted a ...
or "shudder pulps" of the 1930s.[
During 1943, drawing on his experience as a war reporter, he authored one of his best-regarded works, ''Long Were The Nights'', telling of the first ]PT boats
A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive to build, valued for its maneuverability and speed but hampered at the beginning of the wa ...
at Guadalcanal
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. He also wrote a number of other books about the war in the Pacific area during this period.[
During his post-war sojourn in ]Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
, he became so familiar with the religion of Voodoo
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Religions
* African or West African Vodun, practiced by Gbe-speaking ethnic groups
* African diaspora religions, a list of related religions sometimes called Vodou/Voodoo
** Candomblé Jejé, also known as Brazilian Vodu ...
that he published ''Haiti: High Road to Adventure'', a nonfiction work acclaimed critically as the "best report on voodoo in English." His Caribbean
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experiences resulted in his best-selling Voodoo-themed novel, ''The Cross on the Drum'' (1959), an interracial
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* Interracial marriage, marriage between two people of different races
** Interracial marriage in the United States
*** 2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident
* Interracial adoption, placing a child of one raci ...
story in which a white Christian missionary
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becomes enamored of a black Voodoo priest's sister. Reviewing ''The Cross on the Drum'',
for ''The New York Times Book Review
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'', Seldon Rodman noted, it ''treats both the country and its African religious cult with profound sympathy.''[
During this midpoint in his career Cave advanced his writing to the "slick" magazines, including '']Collier's
''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened in 1905 to ''Collie ...
'', ''Family Circle
''Family Circle'' was an American magazine that covered such topics as homemaking, recipes, and health. It was published from 1932 until the end of 2019. Originally distributed at supermarkets, it was one of the " Seven Sisters," a group of se ...
'', ''Ladies' Home Journal
''Ladies' Home Journal'' was an American magazine last published by the Meredith Corporation. It was first published on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States. In 18 ...
'', ''Redbook
''Redbook'' is an American women's magazine that is published by the Hearst Corporation. It is one of the " Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines. It ceased print publication as of January 2019 and now operates an article-comprise ...
'', and the ''Saturday Evening Post
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''. It was in this latter publication, during 1959, tha
"The Mission,"
his most popular short story, was published—- issued subsequently in hardcover format by Doubleday company, reprinted in textbooks, and translated into a number of languages.
According to ''The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'', during the 1970s, with the golden era of pulp fiction now in the past, Cave's "only regular market was writing romance for women's magazines." He was rediscovered, however, by Karl Edward Wagner
Karl Edward Wagner (12 December 1945 – 14 October 1994) was an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. He ...
, who published ''Murgunstrumm and Others'', a horror story collection that won Cave the 1978 World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the eponymous ann ...
. Other collections followed and Cave also published new horror fiction.
His later career included the publication during the late 1970s and early 1980s of four successful fantasy novels: ''Legion of the Dead'' (1979), ''The Nebulon Horror'' (1980), ''The Evil'' (1981), and ''Shades of Evil'' (1982). Two other notable late works are ''Lucifer's Eye'' (1991) and ''The Mountains of Madness'' (2004). Moreover, Cave adapted to the internet, championing the e-book
An ebook (short for electronic book), also known as an e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. Alt ...
to such an extent that electronic versions of his stories can be purchased readily online.
During his entire career he composed more than 1,000 short stories in nearly all genres (though he is remembered best for his horror and crime pieces), approximately forty novels, and a notable body of nonfiction. He received the Phoenix Award
The Phoenix Award annually recognizes one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not then win a major literary award. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix that is reborn from its own ashes, signifying the bo ...
as well as lifetime achievement awards from the International Horror Guild
The International Horror Guild Award (also known as the IHG Award) was an accolade recognizing excellence in the field of horror/dark fantasy, presented by the International Horror Guild (IHG) from 1995 to 2008.
The IHG Awards were determined by ...
, the Horror Writers Association
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is a worldwide non-profit organization of professional writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of Horror and Dark fantasy writers.
Overview
HWA was formed in 1985 with t ...
, and the World Fantasy Convention
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.
Gallery
File:Strange tales 193301.jpg, Cave's novella "Murgunstrumm" was the cover story in the January 1933 issue of ''Strange Tales
''Strange Tales'' is a Marvel Comics comics anthology, anthology series. The title was revived in different forms on multiple occasions. Doctor Strange and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (feature), Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. made their d ...
''. It became the title story for his first major collection of short fiction in 1977.
File:Strange tales 193206.jpg, Cave's novelette "Stragella" was the cover story in the June 1932 issue of ''Strange Tales
''Strange Tales'' is a Marvel Comics comics anthology, anthology series. The title was revived in different forms on multiple occasions. Doctor Strange and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (feature), Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. made their d ...
''
File:All detective 193211.jpg, Cave's "Black Brotherhood" was cover-featured on the debut issue of ''All Detective Magazine
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* All (band), an American punk rock band
* ''All'' (All a ...
'' in 1932
File:Weird Tales March 1934.jpg, Cave's "The Black Gargoyle" took the cover of the March 1934 ''Weird Tales''
File:All detective 193501.jpg, Cave's "The Sign of the Serpent" took the cover on the final issue of ''All Detective Magazine
All or ALL may refer to:
Language
* All, an indefinite pronoun in English
* All, one of the English determiners
* Allar language (ISO 639-3 code)
* Allative case (abbreviated ALL)
Music
* All (band), an American punk rock band
* ''All'' (All a ...
'' in 1935
File:New mystery adventures 193504.jpg, Cave's "The Flames Fiend" was the cover story in the second issue of '' New Mystery Adventures'' in 1935
File:Spicy Mystery Stories August 1936.jpg, 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
''Death Stalks the Night'' is a collection of Fantasy fiction, fantasy, Horror fiction, horror, and Mystery fiction, mystery short stories by American writer Hugh B. Cave. It was originally to have been the fifth volume published by Carcosa, the N ...
'' (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
Crippen & Landru Publishers is a small publisher of mystery fiction collections, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1994 by husband and wife Sandi and Douglas G. Greene in Norfolk, Virginia, United States, and is named af ...
, 2000)
* ''Officer Coffey Stories'' (2000)
* ''Come into My Parlor; Tales from Detective Fiction Weekly'' (Crippen & Landru
Crippen & Landru Publishers is a small publisher of mystery fiction collections, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1994 by husband and wife Sandi and Douglas G. Greene in Norfolk, Virginia, United States, and is named af ...
, 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
This is a list of some (not all) notable writers in the horror fiction genre.
Note that some writers listed below have also written in other genres, especially fantasy and science fiction.
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Footnotes
References
* 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
* Parente, Audrey., ''Pulp Man's Odyssey: The Hugh B. Cave Story'', ercer Island, WAStarmont House, Inc., 1988
''The Phoenix Award''
at ''Black Mask Magazine''
* Williams, John, "Hugh B. Cave: Author of horror, crime, fantasy and adventure from pulp fiction's golden era"
in the ''Guardian'', 10 July 2004.
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