H. P. Lovecraft & Zealia B. Bishop 24 min read

An ethnologist hunting snake-lore in 1925 Oklahoma comes out with a lifelong terror of snakes, and a horror he saw with his own eyes in the Guthrie insane asylum, tied to the old snake-god Yig.

Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft's 1929 story is a chilling weird-horror tale. Atmospheric, dread-soaked, superbly told. Read it for a fine Lovecraft-ghostwritten horror steeped in Native American snake-god legend, where folklore and cosmic dread entwine on the Oklahoma frontier, building to one of the Mythos circle's most memorable revelations.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

24 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).