Please identify this batty short story

[albie]

All I can recall of it is that the monsters were giant bat men. I think it may be quite an old story. It had that feel of being slightly after M. R James. Definitely not too modern. I think tents were involved.

[dem bones]

Dec 12, 2018 14:57:58 GMT albie said:

All I can recall of it is that the monsters were giant bat men. I think it may be quite an old story. It had that feel of being slightly after M. R James. Definitely not too modern. I think tents were involved.

Romeo Poole's 'The Death Cresents of Koti'? If not, possibly Robert E. Howard's 'Wings in the Night'.

[albie]

Robert E. Howard's 'Wings in the Night'? Googled and it seems to be a Solomon kane story. So it's not that. I think the story was English.

'The Death Cresents of Koti' doesn't ring a bell.

THanks though.

[seizure]

A bit of a late reply and a long shot but could it be, "Out of Times Abyss" by Edgar Rice Burroughs? I seem to recall that featured bat people, one of which being large.

[helrunar]

Interesting possibility. The Mahars in At the Earth's Core, also by ERB, come to mind as well.

H.

[Dr Strange]

Vampires Overhead by Alan Hyder (1935), reprinted by Ash Tree Press in 2002? I've never read it, or seen a copy, but there is a summary here -

z7hq.blogspot.com/2009/03/vampires-overhead-by-alan-hyder.html