![]() ![]() This story is an odd piece of Howard writing, most likely inspired by H. The story ends with the man contemplating nature’s cruel law and looking forward to killing the crabs though he knows he will not survive. ![]() They can also use their mind powers to overwhelm their prey. The People have superior intelligence to humans but weaker senses. The island is actually a vast basalt city inhabited by intelligent giant crabs. The narrator and his girl, Gloria, have to swim to the island after her airplane failed and fell into the sea. In the Pacific, between the Philippines and Guam, lies the Island of the People of the Black Coast. Leaving that difference out, I should say that there was as much variation in these monsters and the true spider crab as there is between a highly developed European and an African bushman.” (“The People of the Black Coast” by Robert E. “…If you can imagine spider crabs larger than a horse-and yet they were not true spider crabs, outside the difference in size. ![]()
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