![]() ![]() Gomez is an evil man, the very stereotype of the white oppressor. They stop to rest at an outpost run by a man named Gomez. Set on Borneo, the unnamed narrator and his companion, Martin Gow, are traveling upriver to join a museum expedition. It is available in the collection of the same name. It was the cover story for the March 1934 issue of Weird Tales. He passed away shortly after his autobiography, Cave of a Thousand Tales, was published.įor his birthday, I read “The Black Gargoyle”. Cave was experiencing something of a renaissance in the early 2000’s, with collections of his pulp stories from Fedogan and Bremer and Ash-Tree Press, among others, in addition to a steady output of novels. ![]() This opened the door to him returning to weird fiction. Karl Edward Wagner’s Carcosa published some of Cave’s stories from the horror and fantasy in Murgunstrumm and Others in the 1970’s. During this period his writing shifted from the pulps, which were fast on their way out, to writing for the slicks, primarily what would be called “women’s fiction” today and was considered romance at the time. After the war he bought a coffee plantation in Jamaica. He was prolific enough that he used multiple pen names, the most famous being Justin Case. Cave wrote for a variety of pulps in the 1930s, including Black Mask and Weird Tales. Cave (1910-2004) was born on this date, July 11. ![]()
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