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A pulp fiction writer, Cave specialized in horror stories and giving the publishers what they wanted: an undressed heroine, and quickly. "It meant you could throw in lines like 'she passionately pressed her ravishing, generously endowed body against me'," he once said, "and then you could spend some time describing her 'gauzy fripperies'." He chose the horror genre as a way to cope with his father's serious injuries in a streetcar accident. A fast writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Justin Case", Cave churned out more than 1,000 stories for pulp fiction magazines in the 1930s and '40s, starting at age 15, and in more serious magazines in the '50s and '60s. He also wrote more than 50 books, some of which are still awaiting publication. Cave died June 27 in Florida from complications of diabetes. He was 93. From This is True for 27 June 2004 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Hugh B. Cave List Price: $16.00 Amazon Price: $16.00 Editorial Review: 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.  By: Robert E. HowardRobert Leslie BellemHugh B. CaveDavid H. KellerFrank Gruber List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $11.66 Editorial Review: SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE #100 Chocked full of great authors and yarns. One for everyone! Heroes, aviation, sports, romance, westerns, detectives, adventures and more! Check out all the authors....reads like a "Who's Who" of pulp fiction: Frank Gruber Robert E. Howard Arch Whitehouse David H. Keller Jean Francis Webb Robert Leslie Bellem Hugh B. Cave Paul Ernst  By: Hugh B. CaveH. J. Ward List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $12.11 Editorial Review: SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES - 02/38 includes a lead story on the illegal slave trading in the 1800s. Mix in the usual sex and violence and you have a perfect "Spicy" pulp magazine.  By: Hugh B. CaveH. J. Ward List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $12.11 Editorial Review: SPICY MYSTERY STORIES - April 1942, published by DC Comic founder. Authors included in this pulp replica are, Hugh B. Cave writing as Justin Case, Robert Leslie Bellem and Doc Savage ghost writer, Laurence Donovan.  By: Hugh B. Cave List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $15.00 Editorial Review: 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. |
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