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Pigeons from Hell
| Alternate Title: | The Whistler in the Dark |
| Author: | Robert E. Howard |
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Weird Tales, 1938 |
| Series: | Conan: Misc Other |
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| Book Type: | Novelette |
| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
Nominated in 2014 for the 1939 Retro Hugo Award.
"Pigeons from Hell" is a short story by Robert E. Howard written in late 1934 and published posthumously in 1938. The story title derives from an image present in many of Howard's grandmother's ghost stories, that of an old deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons.
The story originally appeared in Weird Tales, May 1938. It has been reprinted many times and can be found in the anthologies:
- The Horror Hall of Fame (1991), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg
- Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2011), edited by Otto Penzler
- The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950 (2012), edited by John Pelan
The story is included in the collections:
- The Book of Robert E. Howard (1976)
- Pigeons from Hell (1976)
- Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors (1987)
- The Black Stranger And Other American Tales (2005)
- The Haunter of the Rings & Other Tales (2007)
- The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: Grim Lands (2007)
- The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard (2008)
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