David F. Case (1937 – February 3, 2018) was an American writer of short stories and novels.

Biography

Case, labeled a classicist by his colleague and friend Ramsey Campbell, uses graphic imagery to convey as directly as possible what the character feels. His work, as in "The Hunter", prefigures the early novels of David Morrell by several years. Case vanished from the horror field for a decade after the publication of Fengriffen. In 1980, he returned with his werewolf novel Wolf Tracks, and the following year Arkham House published his work The Third Grave. Almost twenty years passed before he released another collection, Brotherly Love. His collection Brotherly Love and Other Tales of Faith and Knowledge was published by Pumpkin Books in the late 1990s. His novel Fengriffen was adapted into the film And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) by director Roy Ward Baker for Amicus Productions. A Gothic melodrama involving an ancient curse and vengeful spirits. The cast included actors Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy and Guy Rolfe, along with an early role for Michael Elphick. His werewolf thriller "The Hunter" was adapted into an ABC-TV movie called Scream of the Wolf in 1974, directed by Dan Curtis. It stars Peter Graves and Clint Walker as two long-time friends, but it deviates from its source material. His first Western, Plumb Drillin', was originally set to be a movie starring Steve McQueen before the actor's untimely death in 1980.

Works

Novels

Horror

Western

Short stories

Collections

Anthologies containing David Case stories