Art by Virgil Finlay for Jack Vance's “The Howling Bounders” in “Startling Stories,” Vol. 19, No. 1 (March, 1949).

            “The ticholama plantation was an amazing bargain, if it were not for – The Howling Bounders.

“Magnus Ridolph stepped out into the green twilight, strolled down past the copter landing to the first of the knee-high ticholama bushes. 

“He froze in his tracks, cocked his head.

“Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow” in a yelping chorus, wild and strange, drifted from across the field.  Magnus Ridolph strained, squinted through the dusk.  He could not be sure. . . It seemed that a tumult of dark shapes came boiling down from the badlands, vague sprawling things.  Olive-green darkness settled across the land.  Magnus Ridolph turned on his heel, stalked back to the cottage. . .”  [From the story]

Taken in: United States / Virginia / Washington Forest (show map)

Taken on: October 12, 2023

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