Robert E. Howard 42 min read

The silence of the pine woods lies like a brooding cloak on Bristol McGrath as he returns to the back-country of his birth, where black shapes and old ancestral dreads stir.

Robert E. Howard's 1935 story is an atmospheric Southern-gothic horror-adventure. Vivid, driven, superbly told. Read it for a lurid, action-packed Howard shocker set in the haunted pine barrens, voodoo, menace, and two-fisted heroism in a decaying estate, told with the muscular intensity the creator of Conan brought to the weird-menace tale.

In its time

Published in 1935, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Vincent Napoli