/lit/ - Literature

For todays Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story I read The Howling Tower from 1941. The story begins with the pair encamped in front of a dying fire a far-flung location, when they hear a peculiar howling sound like wolves. Their fearful guide informs them that the howling is rumored to be from an old tower across the grasslands. He disappears the next morning.

There is a touch of Weird Tales and the gothic about this story like early HP Lovecraft. It's a tale of rescue, a long journey of foreboding through a barren plain, and an encounter with a grisly family history.