Here are Robert E. Howardâs greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions.
Some of Howardâs best-known charactersâSolomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among themâroam the forbidding locales of the authorâs fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa.
The collection includes Howardâs masterpiece âPigeons from Hell,âwhich Stephen King calls âone of the finest horror stories of [the twentieth] century,â a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantationâand into the maw of its fatal secret. In âBlack Canaanâ even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powersâand none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare âWorms of the Earthâ andâThe Cairn on the Headland,âHoward spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the worldâs great masters of the macabre.
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard - Robert E. Howard
Here are Robert E. Howardâs greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions.
Some of Howardâs best-known charactersâSolomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among themâroam the forbidding locales of the authorâs fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa.
The collection includes Howardâs masterpiece âPigeons from Hell,âwhich Stephen King calls âone of the finest horror stories of [the twentieth] century,â a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantationâand into the maw of its fatal secret. In âBlack Canaanâ even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powersâand none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare âWorms of the Earthâ andâThe Cairn on the Headland,âHoward spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the worldâs great masters of the macabre.