Robert E. Howard 37 min read

In the absolute blackness of the Southern pinelands called Egypt, a man gropes along a night trail while a killer prowls the dark.

Robert E. Howard's 1936 Weird Tales story wrings terror from the lightless deep-woods river-country, where an unnatural menace stalks the shadows. Vivid, dread-soaked Southern-gothic horror from the creator of Conan, its racial content, like much of the era's pulp, is of its time. Read it for atmospheric, headlong golden-age Howard, thick with pinewoods darkness.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

H. S. De Lay