author
H. B. Hickey
1916–1987
A sharp, mid-century science fiction writer, this Chicago-born author published eerie, imaginative stories in pulp magazines and later found new readers through anthologies and digital reprints. His best-known work includes the memorable short story "Hilda" and the unsettling later tale "Gone Are the Lupo."
3 Audiobooks
Beyond The Thunder
by H. B. Hickey
The Eye of Wilbur Mook
by H. B. Hickey
Daughters of Doom
by H. B. Hickey
About the author
Writing under the name H. B. Hickey, Herbert B. Livingston was born in Chicago in 1916. Accounts connected with his work say he discovered science fiction in the late 1920s through Amazing Stories and Edgar Rice Burroughs, an early influence that helped shape his interest in speculative fiction.
He published short fiction in magazines such as Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Quark. Among the stories most often noted are The Eye of Wilbur Mook, Beyond the Thunder, Daughters of Doom, Hilda, and Gone Are the Lupo. Several of these pieces were later reprinted in science fiction anthologies, which helped keep his work in circulation long after its first magazine appearances.
Livingston is remembered as one of the many imaginative pulp-era writers whose stories bridged magazine adventure and more thoughtful science fiction. Reliable sources consulted here disagree on his death year: some library-style listings show 1987, while an obituary for Herbert B. Livingston says he died on March 8, 2016, in Santa Ana, California, at age 99.