{"id":7151,"date":"2009-11-08T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T20:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:14:14","slug":"pigeons-from-hell-coming-to-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/pigeons-from-hell-coming-to-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pigeons From Hell&#8221; Coming to DVD in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7152\" title=\"pigeons-head\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pigeons-head-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"pigeons-head\" width=\"240\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pigeons-head-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pigeons-head.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Robert E. Howard&#8217;s seminal Southern Gothic horror tale, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/howardworks.com\/storyp.htm#pige\">Pigeons From Hell<\/a>,&#8221; continues to go from strength to strength in the pop-cultural arena, bloody axe in hand. During the last week of October, a stage adaptation of &#8220;Pigeons From Hell&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=6749\">was performed at Greystone Mansion<\/a> in Beverly Hills. Now, as I just learned from Bill Thom&#8217;s <em>Coming Attractions<\/em>, the\u00a0television adaptation filmed for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thriller_(U.S._TV_series)\">Boris Karloff&#8217;s Thriller<\/a><\/em>\u00a0will be released in 2010. Here&#8217;s the blurb straight from Bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Boris Karloff&#8217;s THRILLER <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8211; Coming to DVD in 2010!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<small>Boris Karloff&#8217;s THRILLER<\/small> <small>anthology series was aired from 1960 to 1962<\/small>. <small>The series featured a wide variety of stars such as William Shatner, Mary Tyler Moore, Rip Torn, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Vaughn, Elizabeth Montgomery, \u00a0Leslie Nielsen, John Carradine, and Ursula Andress. Stories were based on the works of Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, and <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Robert E. Howard.<\/span> The entire remastered series will be released as a deluxe collectors box set featuring all 67 episodes of the show.<\/small> <small>Extensive special features are being developed including audio commentaries as well as<\/small> <small>never-before-seen extras.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><strong>Included in this release is Robert E. Howard&#8217;s &#8220;Pigeons From Hell.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Many fans of the <em>Thriller<\/em> series consider the &#8220;Pigeons From Hell&#8221; episode to be the best in its three-year run.\u00a0While <em>I&#8217;ve<\/em> never seen it, I know many Howard-heads\u00a0feel that the episode is the single finest screen adaptation of any Robert E. Howard yarn to date.\u00a0While too late for Halloween <em>this<\/em> year, there is always next All Hallow&#8217;s Eve, as well as a possible screening at <a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?cat=3\">Howard Days<\/a> next June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7153  aligncenter\" title=\"pfh-thriller\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pfh-thriller.jpg\" alt=\"pfh-thriller\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pfh-thriller.jpg 400w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pfh-thriller-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert E. Howard&#8217;s seminal Southern Gothic horror tale, &#8220;Pigeons From Hell,&#8221; continues to go from strength to strength in the pop-cultural arena, bloody axe in hand. During the last week of October, a stage adaptation of &#8220;Pigeons From Hell&#8221;\u00a0was performed at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. 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