In a message dated 12/13/2005 6:41:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:03:21 +0000 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Robert E. Howard’s Pigeons from Hell > > *sigh* i haven't read this one since the '70s, &i seriously doubt i still > own anything that includes it. (it was the title story of an reh collection > from, i believe, lancer circa the late '60s. probably it was in skullface & > others, too, but my copy of the neville-spearman facsimile reprint went away > at > the same time as the lancer pb &another couple of thousand of my books, some > 21 > 1/2 years ago. *deeper sigh*) > > if memory serves, this one was memorably adapted for tv back in the late > '50s or early '60s, though offhand i can't remember the show ... thriller? > alfred hitchcock presents? i've never seen it, but i'm thinking i *might* > have it > as a bootleg dvd-r add-on somewhere ... > > dan > Howard wrote a goodly number of horror stories for Weird Tales; some were Lovecraftian, some were a mix of genres, and a few were straight-up Southern gothic. "Pigeons From Hell" falls into the latter category, and it makes nearly every Howard-head's Top 10 list. It's flat-out scary. No lie. It was adapted into an episode of Boris Karloff's Thriller (and a better than average episode, at that) and a graphic novel by Scott Hampton. But nothing beats the original story for sheer freakout value. — Mark Finn
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