Robert E. Howard 9 min read

On a still moonlit veranda, a haunted man named Faming grips his chair in sudden terror, gripped, night after night, by a recurring dream of a monstrous serpent that is slowly closing in.

Robert E. Howard's 1928 story is an atmospheric horror tale. Eerie, vivid, superbly told. Read it for early Howard in a chilling supernatural mode, a relentless, doom-laden nightmare of a dream-serpent and an ancient debt, told with the muscular, brooding intensity that the creator of Conan brought to the weird tale.

In its time

Published in 1928, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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