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007skaty Birth of the Serpent Men
Those shape-shifting serpent men crawled straight out of Weird Tales!
007skaty The intelligent Horibs of Pellucidar descended from dinosaurs and shaped decades of hollow-earth science fiction.
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The pulp origin: Robert E. Howard wrote 'The Shadow Kingdom' in 1929, months before Edgar Rice Burroughs published his own subterranean lizard-men.
A magazine or book printed on cheap paper, typically containing sensational stories or articles. Robert E. Howard first introduced shape-shifting, serpent-like humanoids in a 1929 issue of the magazine Weird Tales.
Which author created the subterranean, dinosaur-descended 'Horibs' in his 1929 novel?
Which cosmic horror author adopted Robert E. Howard's Serpent Men into his own mythos?
What is the name of the hollow Earth world featured in Burroughs' adventure novels?
In which 1929 short story did Robert E. Howard introduce the shape-shifting Serpent Men?