Pigeons from Hell, Robert E. Howard
Pigeons from Hell, Robert E. Howard
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Pigeons from Hell

Author: Robert E. Howard

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 1 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/20/2015


Synopsis

Robert Ervin Howard ( 1906-1936) was an American writer of weird stories and horror fiction.

Pigeons from Hell is a classic horror story set in a deserted old planters' house in the Deep South, where something unwholesome stalks the rooms. When two young men, Griswell and Branner, happen upon the old house on their vacation road trip and decide to stay there, terrible things begin to happen.

Griswell awakes from a strange and terrifying dream and hears a strange and uncanny whistling. He sees Branner get up and walk out onto the landing and up the stairs, as though sleepwalking. Then there is a terrible scream...and Branner returns, carrying a hatchet dripping with blood and bits of brain.

As Griswell looks on in horror, he sees that Branner's skull has been split in two...and that he is dead. Dead...but walking down the stairs with a bloody hatchet. In sheer terror he bursts through the window and flees the house.... But this is only the first episode of the terrifying tale.... Griswell is catapulted onto a roller coater of grisly adventures, each more horrific than the last.

About Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) was an American pulp fiction writer who is best known as the creator of Conan, a character that has been featured in film, television, comics, and other media. Despite his suicide at the age of thirty, Howard wrote a huge number of stories in a variety of genres, including fantasy, westerns, horror, and even boxing stories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vicki on July 16, 2024

The Whistler In the Dark PIGEONS FROM HELL by Robert E. Howard No spoilers. 5 stars. Griswell woke with a start, his nerves on edge with a premonition of lurking danger... He woke up in the old, dilapidated Blassenville plantation manor with no idea where he was and how he had gotten there... Then he r......more

Goodreads review by Eloy on January 07, 2021

Pigeons From Hell /Palomas Del Infierno - Rober Howard (1934-postumamente) "A su alrededor todo era oscuridad, y corría ciegamente. Se dijo a sí mismo que debió de huir de la casa y haber corrido varias millas, quizás, antes de que su agotado cerebro empezara a funcionar. No le importaba; morir en la......more

Goodreads review by Robert on January 17, 2019

It's been years since I've read it . It has atmosphere and a creepiness to it . It is an easy read . An anthology T.V series Thriller did a episode on it .......more

Goodreads review by Little on September 07, 2023

Very nice comic adaptation of Howard's horror story. nice art and writing. Very recommended......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on February 27, 2024

The writer of Conan the barbarian rolls up with a story titled like this? Ya boy listens. Howard likely wrote “Pigeons from Hell” in late 1934, with the Kline agency getting the manuscript in December. It wouldn’t appear in print until two years after Howard’s death, in the May 1938 issue of the only......more