Robert E. Howard 50 min read

A whispered warning of 'trouble on Tularoosa Creek' sends a man racing back to the swamp-bordered backcountry where dark powers stir.

Robert E. Howard's 1936 Weird Tales story steeps its Southern-gothic horror in the isolated river-country of Canaan, where old fears and voodoo menace boil up from the black swamps. Vivid, feverish regional horror from the creator of Conan, and a story whose racial attitudes are very much of its grim era. Read it for atmospheric, dread-soaked golden-age Howard, thick with swampland menace.

In its time

Published in 1936, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

50 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

H. S. De Lay