[Solomon Kane 01] • Solomon Kane

With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest

action hero of the twentieth century—he also launched a genre that came to be

known as sword and sorcery. But Conan wasn’t the first archetypal

adventurer to spring from Howard’s fertile imagination.

_“He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the

ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his

soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker

things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one

respect—he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon

Kane.”

_ Collected in this volume, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary

Gianni, are all of the stories and poems that make up the thrilling saga of

the dour and deadly Puritan, Solomon Kane. Together they constitute a

sprawling epic of weird fantasy adventure that stretches from sixteenth-

century England to remote African jungles where no white man has set foot.

Here are shudder-inducing tales of vengeful ghosts and bloodthirsty demons, of

dark sorceries wielded by evil men and women, all opposed by a grim avenger

armed with a fanatic’s faith and a warrior’s savage heart.

**_This edition also features exclusive story fragments, a biography of Howard

by scholar Rusty Burke, and “In Memoriam,” H. P. Lovecraft’s moving tribute to

his friend and fellow literary genius.

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