Murgunstrumm and Others

Long before he became the author of polished romances for the slick magazines, of best-seller novels and firsthand-researched travel books -- Hugh B. Cave wrote some of the most grisly and chilling horror stories ever to appear in the pulps. Crawling forth from the Depression years -- from the haunted pages of Strange Tales, Weird Tales, Ghost Stories, Spicy Mystery Stories, Black Book Detective Magazine, Thrilling Mysteries, and elsewhere.

Be warned. This is a collection of Horror Tales.

Murgunstrumm and Others abounds with haunted houses, ravenous vampires, slobbering monsters, fiends human and inhuman, nights dark and stormy, corpses fresh and rotting. These stories exemplify the gothic horror thrillers of the 1930s -- no-holds-barred lurid chillers of violent action and scream-in-the-night terror. Like a vintage horror movie, Murgunstrumm and Others is an experience to be savoured best on a stormy, lonely night.

Contents include:

Foreword

Murgunstrumm

The Watcher in the Green Room

The Prophecy

The Strange Death of Ivan Gromleigh

The Affair of the Clutching Hand

The Strange Case of Number 7

The Isle of Dark Magic

The Whisperers

Horror in Wax

Prey of the Nightborn

Maxon's Mistress

Dead Man's Belt

Boomerang

The Crawling Curse

Purr of a Cat

Tomorrow is Forever

The Ghoul Gallery

The Cult of the White Ape

The Brotherhood of Blood

The Door of Doom

The Death Watch

The Caverns of Time

Many Happy Returns

Ladies in Waiting

The Grisly Death

Stragella