Hugh B Cave Books In Order

Novels

  1. Run, Shadow, Run (1968)
  2. Larks Will Sing (1969)
  3. Legion of the Dead (1979)
  4. I Took the Sky Road (1980)
  5. The Nebulon Horror (1980)
  6. Shades of Evil (1982)
  7. The Evil (1982)
  8. Long Were the Nights (1983)
  9. The Voyage (1988)
  10. Disciples of Dread (1988)
  11. Uncharted Voyage (1989)
  12. The Lower Deep (1990)
  13. Lucifer’s Eye (1991)
  14. Isle of the Whisperers (1999)
  15. The Dawning (2000)
  16. Bottled in Blonde (2000)
  17. Drums of Revolt (2001)
  18. The Evil Returns (2001)
  19. The Restless Dead (2003)
  20. The Mountains of Madness (2004)

Collections

  1. The Witching Lands (1962)
  2. Death Stalks the Night (1969)
  3. Murgunstrumm and Others (1970)
  4. Bitter/Sweet (1986)
  5. The Corpse Maker (1988)
  6. The Door Below (1997)
  7. Officer Coffey Stories (2000)
  8. The Lady Wore Black (2000)
  9. Long Live the Dead (2000)
  10. Come into My Parlor (2002)
  11. Science Fiction Gems, Volume Four (2012)

Non fiction

  1. Magazines I Remember (1968)
  2. Fightin’est Ship (1979)

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Hugh B Cave Books Overview

Larks Will Sing

Lark City…
a strange assortment of people in a vast apartment complex, each in his own way struggling to remain involved and useful in the face of enforced retirement. Arthur Crane, trapped with a sexless wife and craving affection. Stephanie Upshaw, a retired schoolteacher who has never known a man’s caress. Alan Markel, who never should have stopped being a doctor. The naval hero who refights his war adventures in taverns. ‘They’re all in the same boat,’ Vincent Gallo says to Sam Kendall, Lark City’s harassed manager, ‘ and you’d think they would try to make this last voyage together a pleasant one.’ Sam’s job is to see that they do, to the best of his ability, and his daughter Lee is there to help him. But along with Lee Kendall and her friends are the less predictable young people of her bewildering generation the hippies and beatniks and flower children, and above all the rioters who bring this stirring novel to a frightening climax and provide the assorted residents of Lark with an opportunity to see themselves as they really are. Larks Will Sing, though filled with action and surprises, is perhaps Hugh Cave’s most provocative novel to date. Enforced retirement in today’s swift world is creating a whole host of new problems. Mr. Cave explores some of them and comes up with startling answers.

Legion of the Dead

Gary Connoway had heard rumors of a mysterious Cult of Death even before he arrived in San Mario, but nothing could have prepared him for the unspeakable evil that stalked him now. He had come to the primitive Caribbean island for rest and instead found love in the arms of Juana, a beautiful island girl. Now in the jungle they both faced a relentless, oncoming horror that only the awesome power of voodoo could have raised and only the power of voodoo could stop.

I Took the Sky Road

Captain Norman Mickey Miller spent more than six thousand hours at the controls of airplanes. The Navy was his life. A legend began to grow up around him during his combat cruise in the Central Pacific as commanding officer of Bombing Squadron 109. Even to seasoned airmen his personal exploits were breathtaking, and under his leadership his squadron established the best record of destruction against enemy shipping and island bases of any land based Navy search squadron in the Pacific. This is his story.

The Nebulon Horror

Nebulon, a sleepy little Florida town. It had never known trouble, never expected it from its smallest, most innocent residents the children. But something awful was growing in the youngest minds. It began with a child’s brutal attack on her mother’s lover. A pet obscenely mutilated. A baby drowned in the lake. A man blinded, then savagely stabbed to death. As the small, familiar faces turned away without feeling, the clues lead to old Gustave Nebulon’s house and a door that, if opened, may release all the hate the world could hold…

Shades of Evil

The mist rose out of the lake, a slow white swirl stark agains the night. It took shape, changed shape a bird, a snake, a woman. It floated, searching for something, and not finding, killed randomly. Shades of Evil
where the powers of voodoo and obeah meet in a clash of supernatural wills.

The Evil

Crippled, unable to move, Margal moves you instead, speaks to your mind, commands you to act. There are no doors you can lock to keep The Evil out, no barriers he cannot breach. He calls to those he needs, and they must obey, just as you must obey. The Evil will not be denied!

Long Were the Nights

The Saga of PT Squadron ‘X’ in the Solomons.

The Witching Lands

What unexpected effect does a mysterious burglar have on the conjugal relations of a couple whose outward harmony is an example to their friends?

What is the true story behind the rumor that the doctor murdered his wife to inherit her fortune?

How does a callow young planter outwit the powerful political boss of an isolated West Indian community?

Seen through the eyes of Mr. Cave’s narrator, Max, owner manager of the Pension Etoile in St. Joseph, the people of the West Indies come alive. Max is a good listener, a student of human nature, and a consummate yarn spinner.

These are tales of action and adventure, tales of love, tales of political intrigue. All but one have appeared in leading magazines eight of them in The Saturday Evening Post. Some are wildly comic, and others are touching; all are perceptive, rewarding, and set against the romantic backdrop of the West Indies.

Murgunstrumm and Others

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 every to appear in the pulps. Crawling forth from the Depression years from the haunted pages of Strange Tales, Weird Tales, Ghost Stories, Spicy Mystery Stories, Black Book Detective, and elsewhere Wildside presents an omnibus of vintage nightmares, twenty six of the best horror tales of Hugh B. Cave…
gruesomely illustrated with over thirty five drawings by Lee Brown Coye.

The Lady Wore Black

Cats have become so much a part of our lives that it is tempting to take them for granted. The ancients regarded cats as creatures of mysticism perhaps they knew more than we do. If, indeed, cats are mystical, if they possess a sixth sense, then the creatures which Hugh B. Cave brings to life in this collection of stories are very believable. For here there are cats who protect, cats who seek vengeance, ghostly cats and cats who simply like the attention they believe they deserve. The Lady Wore Black AND OTHER WEIRD CAT TAILS is a collection of nineteen stories from one of the most prolific and respected authros in the supernatural genre. In these pages, the reader will encounter cats which have control over other animals; cats whose powers have origins in the voodoo of Haiti; cats which determine the course of lives, for good or bad; cats, in fact, as you are unlikely ever to have encountered them. And one thing is sure after reading these stories, you will forever regard cats in a somewhat different light. It is now time for you to revel in the adventures of such unlikely supernatural heroes as Mr McCuddle, Roseen, Boojum Blackie, Tai Tai, and Yum Yum…
Ash Tree Press is delighted to publish this volume an Ash Tree Press limited edition in celebration of Hugh B. Cave’s ninetieth birthday and a writing career that has spanned well over seventy years.

Long Live the Dead

A LEGENDARY AUTHOR

A LEGENDARY MAGAZINE

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, Astounding, and countless other all fiction magazines guaranteed a story with vivid characters and crackling pace.

The greatest of all detective pulps, Black Mask Magazine, created the hardboiled private eye story with tales by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Carroll John Daly, and others. Hugh Cave joined that select group in 1934 when the editor Captain Joseph T. Shaw published his ‘Too Many Women,’ a tough story of a corpse on the waterfront and a sleazy photographer. Cave followed with stories about a dog who helps a cop, a magician who is accused of murder, a P. I. hired to find a girl on the Florida Keys, and an assortment of other flavorful characters. Cave rang many changes on the Black Mask style, from the male female banter of ‘Smoke in Your Eyes,’ to ‘The Missing Mr. Lee’ which is related consecutively by 5 or 6 different characters, to the violent gangland setting of ‘Stranger in Town.’

Published in honor of Hugh B. Cave’s 90th birthday, Long Live the Dead takes the reader back to the great age of the private eye story. The book includes new prefaces to each story by the author, an introduction by Keith Allan Deutsch, proprietor of Black Mask Magazine, and a checklist of Cave’s mystery writing.

Come into My Parlor

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, Black Mask, Adventure, Astounding, and countless other all fiction magazines guaranteed a story with vivid characters and crackling pace. In his new introduction, Cave writes, ‘What I had, in many of my tales for Detective Fiction Weekly, were folks like you and you and you, who never wore a policeman’s uniform or were licensed to be crime fighters. These characters were just everyday people who became involved in crime fighting more or less by ‘accident.’ And when I began writing that kind of story, with a hero who was not a professional crime fighter but just an ordinary Joe like most of us, the editor of Detective Fiction Weekly liked them and so did the readers. There are several such tales in this collection, along with the usual kind of detective story. I think they are among the best of the pulp stories I wrote.’ Published in honor of Hugh B. Cave’s 92nd birthday, Come into My Parlor takes the reader back to the great age of the pulp detective story, and to the world of the late 1930’s.

Fightin’est Ship

Military history. The story of the World War II warship dubbed ‘The Fightin’est Ship‘ the cruiser ‘Helena’.

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