Hugh B. Cave | |
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 Hugh B. Cave, date unknown | |
| Born | 11 July 1910 Chester, England |
| Died | 27 June 2004 (aged 93) Vero Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Pen name | Justin Case, John Star, Geoffrey Vace |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | British and Jamaican |
| Genre | Science fiction, Horror |
| Subject | Horror |
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 and science fiction.[1] Cave was one of the most prolific contributors to pulp magazines 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, Cave afterwards settled in Jamaica where he owned and managed a coffee plantation 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'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 for lifetime achievement in 1999.[1]