Project Gutenberg 2023-06-26 Public domain in the USA. 243 Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) 1906 1936 Howard, Robert Ervin The dream snake $aUnited States :$bPopular Fiction Publishing Company, $c1928. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Dream Snake" by Robert E. Howard is a short story published in the late 1920s. This eerie tale features elements of horror and psychological suspense, exploring the realm of nightmares and the fear of the unknown. The story delves into the psychological experiences of the protagonist as he recounts an extremely vivid and haunting recurring dream that blurs the line between reality and imagination. In the narrative, a man named Faming shares a horrifying dream about living in a solitary bungalow on a hill in Africa, where he feels a constant dread of being pursued by a monstrous serpent. As he describes the dream, Faming experiences intense fear and an overwhelming sense of impending doom, especially as he senses the serpent drawing nearer with each repetition of the dream. The story paints a vivid picture of his terror as he waits in the bungalow, grappling with his sanity while paralyzed by the anticipation of the serpent's arrival. Ultimately, the tale reaches a chilling conclusion with Faming's untimely death, suggesting the devastating power of fear and the psychological impact of one's nightmares becoming a horrifying reality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20230310104855howard 1928 US Reading ease score: 76.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Short stories Horror tales Nightmares -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 41405 2025-07-28T07:33:05.110372 text/html 40664 2023-06-26T17:19:17 text/html 248044 2025-07-28T07:33:07.897344 application/epub+zip 246832 2025-07-28T07:33:06.261397 application/epub+zip 166574 2025-07-28T07:33:05.546369 application/epub+zip 712310 2025-07-28T07:33:09.196377 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 705808 2025-07-28T07:33:07.440376 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 34981 2025-07-28T07:33:04.981363 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 34714 2023-06-26T17:19:17 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18126 2025-07-28T07:33:09.476343 application/rdf+xml 25772 2025-07-28T07:33:05.869377 image/jpeg 4229 2025-07-28T07:33:05.694356 image/jpeg 13304 2023-06-26T17:19:19 application/octet-stream application/zip 1051094 2023-06-26T17:19:19 application/octet-stream application/zip 1064627 2025-07-28T07:33:05.125367 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia