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Post by linefacedscrivener on May 11, 2020 6:27:55 GMT -5
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Post by charleshelm on May 11, 2020 18:16:13 GMT -5
Nice. The episode is on YouTube.
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Post by linefacedscrivener on May 12, 2020 15:19:33 GMT -5
And here it is!
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Post by charleshelm on May 12, 2020 18:49:34 GMT -5
I found two on there, one for some reason had it twice in a row and the other was commentary over the footage.
Definitely worth watching.
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Post by keith on Oct 30, 2020 22:04:30 GMT -5
Worth watching all right. I've done so twice and will do it again this Halloween, along with a lesser Vincent Price movie. Haven't made up my mind yet between "The City in the Sea" and "Pit and the Pendulum." Haven't seen either, but maybe, though I've watched it before, I'll go for "Masque of the Red Death."
And maybe not.
Just a bit too appropriate this year.
"Pigeons From Hell," is well recognized as one of REH's greatest horror yarns, probably the top. Deserves it. The THRILLER adaptation was better than average television, though of course it played down the controversial aspects like the fiendish way the Blassenvilles mistreated their slaves.
All his horror stories gave at least a bit of a chill, most a lot more than that. Even very brief Solomon Kane tales like "The Right Hand of Doom." It also had nice touches of revelation of Kane's character, as at the beginning when the traitor who turned in the evil sorcerer brags about his deed and Kane tells him, "I say you have this day done a damnable deed. Yon necromancer was worthy of death, belike, but he trusted you, named you his one friend, and you betrayed him for a few filthy coins. I have it in mind that you will meet him in hell, one day."
Aside from the famous ones like "Pigeons" and "Dig Me No Grave" I also have a real soft spot for "The House of Arabu" aka "The Witch From Hell's Kitchen." The setting of ancient Nippur in Sumeria is unusual, though naturally the protagonist is a western barbarian, a mercenary, this time an Argive. The epigraph at the story's head, the pessimistic description of the Sumerian afterlife from the legend of Ishtar, sets the tone right away, while the death-lusting sorcerer Gimil-ishbi is genuinely nasty. The scene where Pyrrhas descends into the underworld, guided by the demon Lilith, to discover who has cursed him, and battles a dead man steeped in dust and cloaked in grey feathers as Babylonian ghosts were said to be, is really good.
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Post by charleshelm on Oct 31, 2020 11:34:31 GMT -5
I really like The House of Arabu as well.
Not sure what I will watch tonight. I have a lot of things I wan to do and I will at least pretend to give candy away unless they interdict it. Of course with safety protocols.
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Post by keith on Oct 14, 2021 7:40:44 GMT -5
Here we are with Hallowe'en nearly on us again.
It's a great Hallowe'en, or Samhain, for me, as I've been invited to contribute to an anthology of Samhain stories. No doubt it'll be as choice a collection of yarns about ghouls, ghosts, banshees, dullahans and washers of bloody garments at the ford as you might wish to peruse. Ochone!
I've decided to make my contribution a Felimid the bard story.
As preparation, to get in the mood, I'm reading some Bierce, le Fanu, Lovecraft, CAS and Machen, and especially some Robert E. Howard, from the Del Ray volume THE HORROR STORIES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD, with a focus on some of the less well known ones, like "The Hoofed Thing" "The Noseless Horror" and the grim "Song of the Werewolf Folk". But naturally "Pigeons From Hell" and "The Black Stone" too.
Have a great Samhain, all of you!
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Post by zarono on Oct 14, 2021 11:22:44 GMT -5
Here we are with Hallowe'en nearly on us again. It's a great Hallowe'en, or Samhain, for me, as I've been invited to contribute to an anthology of Samhain stories. No doubt it'll be as choice a collection of yarns about ghouls, ghosts, banshees, dullahans and washers of bloody garments at the ford as you might wish to peruse. Ochone! I've decided to make my contribution a Felimid the bard story. As preparation, to get in the mood, I'm reading some Bierce, le Fanu, Lovecraft, CAS and Machen, and especially some Robert E. Howard, from the Del Ray volume THE HORROR STORIES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD, with a focus on some of the less well known ones, like "The Hoofed Thing" "The Noseless Horror" and the grim "Song of the Werewolf Folk". But naturally "Pigeons From Hell" and "The Black Stone" too. Have a great Samhain, all of you! Right back at you Keith have a great Samhain yourself! Let us know when the tales are available. Since you mentioned Song of the Werewolf Folk I'll add in REH's poem "Up John Kane" as a companion, it's favorite of mine for this time of the year   |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2021 6:21:25 GMT -5
A look at The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard (Del Rey edition) by Michael K. Vaughan
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
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Post by deepermagic on Oct 15, 2021 11:02:01 GMT -5
I finally purchased the Del Rey Horror Stories last month in order to slowly make my way through them this season. I typically read multiple books at a time, some read pretty hot and others are paced. This one is perfect on simmer. I'm about halfway through, and even though I've read most of them in other editions (I haven't read many of the poems interspersed throughout) I enjoy having all of the horror stories in one place.
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Post by karasuthecrow on Oct 15, 2021 17:32:29 GMT -5
My personal favorite is "Pigeons from Hell" but I also really enjoyed "The Haunter of the Ring" which is more pulp and occult detective focus but its connection to the Mythos and to Conan reallt gained my favores.  |
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Post by zarono on Oct 15, 2021 21:04:58 GMT -5
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Post by keith on Oct 17, 2021 8:31:33 GMT -5
Here we are with Hallowe'en nearly on us again. It's a great Hallowe'en, or Samhain, for me, as I've been invited to contribute to an anthology of Samhain stories. No doubt it'll be as choice a collection of yarns about ghouls, ghosts, banshees, dullahans and washers of bloody garments at the ford as you might wish to peruse. Ochone! I've decided to make my contribution a Felimid the bard story. As preparation, to get in the mood, I'm reading some Bierce, le Fanu, Lovecraft, CAS and Machen, and especially some Robert E. Howard, from the Del Ray volume THE HORROR STORIES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD, with a focus on some of the less well known ones, like "The Hoofed Thing" "The Noseless Horror" and the grim "Song of the Werewolf Folk". But naturally "Pigeons From Hell" and "The Black Stone" too. Have a great Samhain, all of you! Right back at you Keith have a great Samhain yourself! Let us know when the tales are available. Since you mentioned Song of the Werewolf Folk I'll add in REH's poem "Up John Kane" as a companion, it's favorite of mine for this time of the year |
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Post by keith on Oct 17, 2021 9:10:28 GMT -5
I think "Up John Kane" is a great chilling poem too. I've wondered if that John Kane was one of the Kanes of Devon, and so a relative of Solomon Kane, even if distant. And I've wondered if there may be a tie-in with another Howard poem, "Dead Man's Hate."
Like this:
John Kane made a "pact that has no breaking" with the werewolf folk, and "swore by the blood-crust that stained [his] dagger." So apparently he had murdered someone. "The pact was sealed with the dark blood-flower."
Suppose that Adam Brand, in "Dead Man's Hate," for reasons of his own, such as jealousy, had perjured himself by swearing that his neighbour John Farrel did the deed, Farrel as an outcome being hanged. According to the poem he swore vengeance on Adam Brand before he swung, and came down from the gibbet to get it. Adam Brand wouldn't have known who really committed the murder, and being, clearly, a nasty piece of work, wouldn't have cared so long as he could frame John Farrel for it. But that would mean John Kane, the real killer, was as much to blame for the injustice as Brand, and Farrel might come back from the grave after him, too - werewolf buddies or none. If my theory is valid.
I wouldn't suppose Solomon Kane got involved, though. I'd assume he was out of England for an extended period, as he often was, or it was before his time altogether.
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Post by zarono on Oct 18, 2021 20:40:23 GMT -5
I think "Up John Kane" is a great chilling poem too. I've wondered if that John Kane was one of the Kanes of Devon, and so a relative of Solomon Kane, even if distant. And I've wondered if there may be a tie-in with another Howard poem, "Dead Man's Hate." Like this: John Kane made a "pact that has no breaking" with the werewolf folk, and "swore by the blood-crust that stained [his] dagger." So apparently he had murdered someone. "The pact was sealed with the dark blood-flower." Suppose that Adam Brand, in "Dead Man's Hate," for reasons of his own, such as jealousy, had perjured himself by swearing that his neighbour John Farrel did the deed, Farrel as an outcome being hanged. According to the poem he swore vengeance on Adam Brand before he swung, and came down from the gibbet to get it. Adam Brand wouldn't have known who really committed the murder, and being, clearly, a nasty piece of work, wouldn't have cared so long as he could frame John Farrel for it. But that would mean John Kane, the real killer, was as much to blame for the injustice as Brand, and Farrel might come back from the grave after him, too - werewolf buddies or none. If my theory is valid. I wouldn't suppose Solomon Kane got involved, though. I'd assume he was out of England for an extended period, as he often was, or it was before his time altogether. Pretty cool! I've speculated John Kane might be related to Solomon too. As always with REH there's a lot to unpack in this poem; you have to wonder what drove John Kane to make the pact since he seemed reluctant to join his four footed brothers from the hills when the time came (resurgence of his lapsed puritan faith perhaps), was the blood on his dagger from a sacrifice made to dark powers or was it his own blood? |
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