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.
Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time is back with an all-new story by the creator of Doc Savage, Lester Dent. Also featuring classic hard-boiled detective stories by Horace McCoy, Wyatt Blassingame, Day Keene, Herbert Koehl, Kent Richards, Stephen McBarron, Dwight V. Babcock, Hugh B. Cave, and Edgar Franklin, all from the golden age of pulp fiction. With vintage brush illustrations by Arthur Rodman Bowker, as well as a previously-unpublished interview with the author of Donovan’s Brain, Curt Siodmak.
This volume of Wildside Press's best-selling MEGAPACK® series focuses on tales first published in the "Spice" line of pulp magazines. Here are 25 mystery tales considered quite titillating in their day, but mild by modern standards.
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!
When Strange Tales first appeared in 1931 as a pulp magazine, it was clearly something new. Edited by Harry Bates as a companion to Astounding Stories, it combined the supernatural horror and fantasy of Weird Tales with vigorous action plots. Strange Tales rapidly attracted the most imaginative and capable writers of the day, including such Weird Tales regulars as Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Henry S. Whitehead, Hugh B. Cave, Ray Cummings, and numerous others. Had the Great Depression not intervened and killed it after seven issues, the whole history of fantastic fiction might have been different. The January 1933 issue features Hugh B. Cave's classic "Murgunstrumm," as well as stories by Robert E. Howard, Henry S. Whitehead, and many more.
A voodoo curse lingers over the Everol mansion, tormenting the family who lives there. The Everols shut themselves off from the world, but they reluctantly allow university professor Jeff Gordon, an occult expert, into the mansion. However, Gordon's experience cannot prepare him for the unearthly creatures and ultimate terror that awaits him. Original.
The lives of twelve-year-old Peter and his father, both still grieving for the death of Peter's mother and brother, change dramatically with the arrival of an uneducated but fiercely determined young black boy on their Jamaican coffee plantation.
Hugh Barnett Cave (1910-2004) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction who also excelled in other genres. His interest in black magic, Haiti, and the Caribbean led him to write "Black Sun" (1960),a mainstream novel set on the Caribbean island of St Joseph
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!
His irresponsible father's jail sentence has left eleven-year-old Vinnie and his mother in dire straits in their Cape Cod home, so when his father escapes and needs help hiding out Vinnie feels he must choose between his parents.
Winner of a 1997 World Fantasy Award, Hugh B. Cave has been writing for nearly seven decades. The author has selected twenty-five tales of horror, weird-menace, and "strange mystery" that span his long and varied career. No single collection can do justice to Cave's range and incredible output of well over a thousand stories, plus novels and non-fiction books and articles. But The Door Below offers a tasty sampling of Hugh's dark fiction. Required reading for any horror or pulp fiction aficionado.
Adventure Tales showcases the best authors from the classic pulp magazines of the early to mid 20th Century. This volume highlights the work of Hugh B. Cave as the Featured Author, with two rare, previously unreprinted stories, plus fiction contributions by J. Allan Dunn, H. Bedford Jones, Harold Lamb, Vincent Starrett, H. de Vere Stacpoole, Saki (H.H. Munro), Johnston McCulley, Captain A.E. Dingle, Charles C. Young, John Kendrick Bangs, and F. Marion Crawford. Interview with Hugh B. Cave.
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