> 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 
>  

Great story. It is too bad Howard did not live to write more regional horror 
stories, because I am also quite fond of "The Dead Remember", a more 
insinuatingly chilling tale than "Pigeons".

Jim
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