"Pigeons from Hell" is a horror short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, written in late 1934 and published posthumously by Weird Tales in 1938.

The title comes from an image of the ghost stories told by Howard's grandmother, especially one about a deserted plantation mansion haunted by pigeons.

It was re-written and adapted by Joe R. Lansdale with art by Nathan Fox and published in four issues by Dark Horse Comics, starting in April 2008.

[1] Two New Englanders, John Branner and his friend Griswell, travel across the South and spend the night in a deserted plantation manor.

After the American Civil War, the Blassenvilles fell into poverty, with all their male members dead and only four sisters remaining, shortly to be joined by their Aunt Celia from the West Indies and her mulatto maid Joan.

One night in 1890, the last of the Blassenvilles, Elizabeth, fled the house, claiming she had found her sisters' corpses inside a secret room and was attacked by something in the shape of a woman with a yellow face.

The following evening, Buckner and Griswell visit the hut of an ancient voodoo practitioner, Jacob, seeking information about the house and the Blassenvilles.

They track its dying noises into the secret room, where they discover the hanging bodies of the three missing Blassenville sisters as well as the corpse of the zuvembie, which is still dressed in a ball gown.

In 1983, Stephen King, writing in Danse Macabre, calls "Pigeons from Hell" to be "one of the finest horror stories of our century".