The Horror-Horn

"The Horror-Horn" is a short story by the late British author E. F. Benson.
== Summary==
The story focuses on a man who vacations in the Swiss Alps, around the Ungehoerhorn Mountains. He is met by a friend who relates a tale of his meeting with a local barbaric tribe of semi-human things, primitive and ape-like in all but their human features.
Days later, the man wanders in the forest and meets one of these people, an old hag of a woman. He manages to escape it, but he is horrified beyond his wits.
==Behind the Mythos ==
"The Horror-Horn" was one of several stories by E. F. Benson of which Howard Phillips Lovecraft spoke highly.
==Publication History==
"The Horror-Horn" was first published in Hutchinson's Magazine in September 1922, and has been reprinted many times in the years since.
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