Pigeons from Hell
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I finally got around to reading Robert E. Howard’s story Pigeons from Hell. And a great story it is too. A great gothic horror story. Mind you, I love anything connected with voodoo. It has that feeling of degeneracy and decay that Lovecraft caught in so many of his stories, but with a southern rather than a New England favour. I think Howard does it extremely well in this story. It has that feel of civilisation being more precarious than we thought, of pre-civilised horrors lurking beneath the surface.
The story has a contemporary setting (contemporary to when it was written, in 1938). It’s about a man from New England on vacation, travelling through the South, who spends the night in a decaying mansion. Which turns out to be a distinctly bad idea. Very little gore, but plenty of atmosphere.
dfordoom)I finally got around to reading Robert E. Howard’s story Pigeons from Hell. And a great story it is too. A great gothic horror story. Mind you, I love anything connected with voodoo. It has that feeling of degeneracy and decay that Lovecraft caught in so many of his stories, but with a southern rather than a New England favour. I think Howard does it extremely well in this story. It has that feel of civilisation being more precarious than we thought, of pre-civilised horrors lurking beneath the surface.
The story has a contemporary setting (contemporary to when it was written, in 1938). It’s about a man from New England on vacation, travelling through the South, who spends the night in a decaying mansion. Which turns out to be a distinctly bad idea. Very little gore, but plenty of atmosphere.
