Nebulon, a sleepy little Florida town. It had never known trouble, never expected it from its smallest, most innocent residents-the children. But something awful was growing in the youngest minds. It began with a child's brutal attack on her mother's lover. A pet obscenely mutilated. A baby drowned in the lake. A man blinded, then savagely stabbed to death. As the small, familiar faces turned away without feeling, the clues lead to old Gustave Nebulon's house and a door that, if opened, may release all the hate the world could hold . . .

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.

Terror Lurks beneath the waves... In Dame Marie, sleeping villagers walk in the dead of night - they return without memory, naked and soaking from the sea...when they return at all... Dr. Stephen Spence is new to the village, but he has seen Evil before - when the darkest rites of Voodoo nearly cost him his life. But Voodoo has two faces; and the Doctor is beginning to see that only the village Houngan - Voodoo priest - may have medicine strong enough to defeat the forces calling from the cove.  Now, Spence must convince the rest of the villagers that unimaginable horrors await them all in The Lower Deep. This nightmare of an ancient civilizations beneath the sea, inviting comparisons to H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, is only one of many titles by Horror, Mystery, and Fantasy master Hugh B. Cave being brought to you in digital by Crossroad press. These are the authorized editions, published in conjunction with Hugh B. Cave's estate.  If you enjoy this title, you should check out Hugh's World Fantasy Award-Winning collection, Murgunstrumm & Others, as well as the novels THE EVIL, THE EVIL RETURNS, SHADES OF EVIL, and THE NEBULON HORROR.  Also available are Hugh's young adult island coffee plantation novel Conquering Kilmarni (also an unabridged audiobook) and the Brand New, never before published novel Serpents in the SUn.  Watch for more from this great horror master! Crossroad Press is a full-spectrum digital publisher, specializing in bringing back out of print books, new and original series books like The Tales of the Scattered Earth, O.C.L.T., and The DeChance Chronicles, and a wide variety of titles from best-selling authors like William Bayer, Irving Wallace, Chet Williamson, Tom Piccirilli, and more.  Search CROSSROAD PRESS in the Amazon Kindle store for more titles!

Ten stories of murder and suspense from one of the all-time masters of pulp fictionAn addled ex-boxer named Tiny Tim ambles out of the shadows and complains to a beat cop that he is being followed. The officer laughs him off; everyone knows that Tiny Tim has heard footsteps behind him for years. But a few minutes later, Tim is spotted in a pool of blood, dead at the bottom of the subway steps. After years of running, the imagined footsteps have caught up to him at last.This brisk tale of deception and murder is but one of the stories in this collection from Hugh B. Cave, a master of pulp fiction whose career spanned seventy-five years. Along with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Cave was one of the defining authors of Black Mask magazine, and these stories are perfect examples of what set that pulp apart. Hard-boiled, fast-paced, and witty, the tales of Long Live the Dead are just as captivating now as they were on the newsstand many decades ago.From BooklistWhen crime fiction aficionados refer to "pulp fiction," the publication they usually have in mind is Black Mask, which was a regular home to Hammett, Chandler, and Gardner. Among the other Black Mask regulars was Hugh Cave, who made his first appearance in the magazine in 1934. Amazingly, he's still going strong at 90 after 37 books. The 10 stories collected here were all published in Black Mask between 1934 and 1941. Among the highlights are "Too Many Women," in which an unscrupulous photographer and a waterfront corpse spell trouble, and "The Missing Mr. Lee," a Rashomon-like tale in which a half dozen characters offer their unique versions of the truth. In the title story, a retired, reclusive magician is framed for murder and must use all his Houdini-like skills to avoid becoming the next victim. These are uniformly entertaining tales that take readers back to a time when dames, runts, thugs, and hard cases ruled the print world. Wes LukowskyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved