Read by Milton Bagby. Liner Notes by Will Murray
Although born in Britain, Hugh B. Cave grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He began writing in the late 1920s, and soon became a very prolific pulp writer. Specializing in crime stories at first, he gravitated to Weird Tales and the so-called Shudder Pulps. Cave’s reputation only grew over the following decades, during which he racked up some 40 novels and over one thousand short stories in every genre imaginable.
Cave’s interest in the weird took a different turn in the post World War II era when he relocated to Haiti and became interested in the mysterious religion of Voodoo. He wrote one of the earliest sympathetic inside books on Voodoo, titled Haiti: High Road to Adventure, followed by a bestselling novel on the subject, The Cross and the Drum.
Stories in this first Hugh Cave compilation of Weird Menace classics ripped from the crumbling pages of Terror Tales date from before his encounters with the dark religion. Whatever supernatural rites Cave may have participated in, it led to him becoming one of the great grandmasters of pulp era fiction––as these suspenseful stories will attest.
Begin the bizarre journey by sailing to a dark rendezvous on Privacy Island, where a retired warden and his former inmates convene in the nightmarish account called “Terror Island.” In “Death’s Loving Arms,” a jungle beast-woman invades civilization to rip and rend and slay in order to satisfy her wonton bloodlust. Thrill to the terrible tale of the innocent churchman who was dragged down to perdition and presented with proof positive that he sold his soul to the Evil One in “Enslaved to Satan.” Finally, prepare for ultimate horror as we enter a long-deserted church which hosts dark, diabolic rites to become “Satan's Sepulcher.”
Read with suitably portentous overtones by Milton Bagby.
Chapter 1: The Island
Chapter 2: Horror Chamber
Chapter 3: Woman Gone Mad
Chapter 4: Poison Pellets
Chapter 5: A Woman’s Scream
Chapter 6: The Man Who Was Sane
Chapter 1: Jungle Horror
Chapter 2: Marked For Death
Chapter 3: A Woman’s Scream
Chapter 4: The Beast Feeds
Chapter 1: Satan’s Covenant
Chapter 2: The Black Coat
Chapter 3: Sworn to Satan
Chapter 4: Blood Message
Chapter 5: Into the Pit
Chapter 1: Returned from the Dead
Chapter 2: Tomb of the Mad
Chapter 3: The Temple of Torment
Chapter 4: Screams of the Tortured
Chapter 5: Warning of the Dead
Chapter 6: Red Hell of Torture
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Wonderful! Can't wait to hear 'Satan’s Sepulcher'!