# The grisly horror

Author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936; Napoli, Vincent, 1907-1981 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71180

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+grisly+horror+Howard&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The silence of the pine woods lay like a brooding cloak about the soul of Bristol McGrath. The black shadows seemed fixed, immovable as the weight of superstition that overhung this forgotten back-country. Vague ancestral dreads stirred at the back of McGrath's mind; for he was born in the pine woods, and sixteen years of roaming about the world had not erased their shadows. The fearsome tales at which he had shuddered as a child whispered again in his consciousness; tales of black shapes stalking the midnight glades....

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grisly-horror-71180/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grisly-horror-71180/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-grisly-horror-71180/chapters/3/index.md)