Hugh B. Cave

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1932
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Stragella

    in Bloodsuckers: The Vampire Archives Volume 1

    The Vampire Archives is the scariest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once you're in its clutches there's no escape. From the first to last bite, it's a bloody good read. Featuring:...

  • Mistress of Shadows

    in Murder Most Cozy

    A collection of mystery stories culled from the pages of "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" and "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" features the work of Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Julian Simons, and Michael Innes...

  • 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 fo...

  • 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 t...

  • Spicy Detective Encores

  • Uncharted Voyage

  • Disciples of Dread

  • The Lower Deep

    Terror Lurks beneath the waves...In Dame Marie, sleeping villagers walk in the dead of night - they return without memory, naked and soaking from the sea...when they return at all...Dr. Stephen Spence is new to the village, but he has seen Evil befor...

  • Lucifer's Eye

    Evil stirs in the heart of paradise. To plantation caretaker Peter Sheldon. St. Alban is a lush Caribbean jewel . . . but suddenly, all is not what it seems . . . A crime wave is sweeping the villages . . . and a mysterious green fog is terrif...



  • The Door Below

  • Isle of the Whisperers

  • Federal Agent: The Billion Dollar Murders

  • The Dawning

    In a world where crime, drugs, and pollution have made the world uninhabitable, a small band of survivors heads off to the wilderness of northern Canada to make a new start, but the forces of nature are anything but welcoming....

  • 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, D...

  • Drums Of Revolt

  • The Evil Returns

    HAITI IS HOME TO THE MOST POWERFUL AND MOST EVIL, VOODOO MASTER. MANY THOUGHT HE TO BE DEAD AFTER A FIREY ATTEMPT TO DESTROY HIM, BUT HE SURVIVED, SCARRED, DEFORMED AND AS POWERFUL AS EVER. NOW, WITH THE AID OF DARK FORCES AT HIS COMMAND, HE SETS IN ...

  • Come into My Parlor

    Come Into My Parlor: Tales from Detective Fiction Weekly, by Hugh B. Cave, collects 11 stories by one of the most prolific pulp writers of all time, still going strong at age 92. Tom Roberts provides the neo-pulp jacket art....

  • The Restless Dead

    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...

  • Long Were The Nights



  • The Mountains of Madness

    Intimations of supernatural evil percolate through this weird adventure yarn from veteran horror writer Cave, enhancing its suspense and accenting its depiction of an island culture beholden to primitive superstitions. Dan Colby, an America new to th...

  • The Murder Machine

    Four lives lay helpless before the murder machine, the uncanny device by which hypnotic thought-waves are filtered through men's minds to mold them into murdering tools!...

  • The Corpse On The Grating

    In the gloomy depths of the old warehouse Dale saw a thing that drew a scream of horror to his dry lips. It was a corpse -- the mold of decay on its long-dead features -- and yet it was alive! excerpt It was ten o'clock on the morning of December 5 w...

  • Serpents in the Sun

    The Bennett family moved to Jamaica after inheriting a coffee plantation in the Blue Mountains. This novel covers three generations of their lives, loves, triumphs and failures as the build an amazing, profitable plantation, producing some of the fi...

  • Conquering Kilmarni

    When Peter returns to his father's coffee plantation in Jamaica, he wants only to stay with his father. He has been lonesome since the year his mother and brother died; his grief-stricken father has been preoccupied and unable to see how much Peter w...

  • The Cross on the Drum

    A strange young man, Barry Clinton. Unlike most young missionaries, who came to the island to save souls, this one had come with a belligerent skepticism and a driving determination to battle sickness and starvation.He had come to the Ile du Vent wi...

  • 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. T...

  • The Prophecy

    PERIL PRESS presents:Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930THE CORPSE ON THE GRATINGBy Hugh B. CaveIn the gloomy depths of the old warehouse Dale saw a thing that drew a scream of horror to his dry lips. It was a corpse -- the mold of deca...

  • Murgunstrumm and Others

    Winner of the 1978 World Fantasy Award For Best CollectionLong 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 chi...

  • The Corpse's Prophecy

    PERIL PRESS presents:Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930THE CORPSE ON THE GRATINGBy Hugh B. CaveIn the gloomy depths of the old warehouse Dale saw a thing that drew a scream of horror to his dry lips. It was a corpse -- the mold of deca...



  • House of the Restless Dead and Other Stories

    Ramble House is proud to present a collection of stories by one of the Grand Masters of Horror Fiction, Hugh B. Cave. Most of these have never been reprinted since their pulp publication back in the 30s. John Pelan tells you all about this important ...

  • Devils in the Dark

    Welcome to the first volume of Terror Trios from Altus Press. Each volume in this series will present three novels from the great weird menace pulps from Popular Publications. Dime Mystery Magazine, Terror Tales, and Horror Stories frequently ran len...

  • Borneo Surprise - 3 Tales of Adventure

    PERIL PRESS presents:Argosy, June 10 1939BOOMERANGAn Argosy Oddityby Hugh B. CaveAuthor of ?In the Bag?1500 WordsArgosy, May 22 1937IN THE BAGby Hugh B. Cave900 WordsCollier?s, June 10 1955SERPENT IN THE SUNby Hugh B. CaveIllustrated by C.E. Monroe, ...

  • Bring Me His Blood

    PERIL PRESS presents:Short Stories, November 25, 1930HUGH B. CAVEAuthor of many thrilling tales of Dangerous Borneo gives usBRING ME HIS BLOOD!Death Walks with a White Man in the Sinister Byways of a Borneo Waterfront6600 WordsThis edition includes t...

  • Death Stalks the Night

  • Terror Tales #2

    Starting in 1934, editor (and publisher) Harry Steeger unveiled Terror Tales: perhaps the flagship magazine in Popular Publications' so-called Weird Menace lineup of titles. Running for almost 50 issues, Terror Tales showcased some of the best suspe...

  • Terror Tales #8

    Starting in 1934, editor (and publisher) Harry Steeger unveiled Terror Tales: perhaps the flagship magazine in Popular Publications' so-called Weird Menace lineup of titles. Running for almost 50 issues, Terror Tales showcased some of the best suspen...

  • The Corpse Maker

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  • The Nebulon Horror

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    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...

  • Stragella and Other Stories

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    Ancient curses and malign evil bring eldritch creatures, ghouls and vampires to life in these five horror stories by Hugh B. Cave.Stragella (1932) – The meeting with Stragella, under the mist that was a shroud.The Ghoul Gallery (1932) –...



Award-Winning Books by Hugh B. Cave

Murgunstrumm and Others
1978 World Fantasy Award -- Anthology/Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hugh B. Cave has published 39 books.

Hugh B. Cave does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Terror Tales #8, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Hugh B. Cave, Stragella, was published in January 1932.

No. Hugh B. Cave does not write books in series.
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