Robert Howard: The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

– HARRY TURTLEDOVE

Author of Guns of the South

“[Behind Howard's stories] lurks a dark poetry, and the timeless truth of dreams. That is why these tales have survived. They remain a fitting heritage of the poet and dreamer who was Robert E. Howard.”

– ROBERT BLOCH

Author of Psycho

“The stories have a livingness about them [that's] impossible to fake. . . . Not one of them is boring – there is always some special touch – and most, of course, are rousers.”

– GAHAN WILSON

Reviewer and author of I Paint What I See

“For stark, living fear . . . what other writer is even in the running with Robert E. Howard?”

– H. P. LOVECRAFT

“Howard . . . brought a brash, tough element to the epic fantasy which did as much to change the course of the American school away from precious writing and static imagery as Hammett, Chandler, and the Black Mask pulp writers were to change the course of American detective fiction.”

– MICHAEL MOORCOCK

Award-winning author of the Elric saga

“In this, I think, the art of Robert E. Howard was hard to surpass: vigor, speed, vividness. And always there is that furious, galloping narrative pace.”

– POUL ANDERSON

Award-winning author of Genesis

and World Without Stars

“For vivid, violent, gripping, headlong action, the stories of Robert E. Howard . . . take the prize among heroic fantasies.”

– L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

Author of Lest Darkness Fall

“The best pulp [fantasy] writer was Robert E. Howard. . . . He painted in about the broadest strokes imaginable. A mass of glimmering black for the menace, an ice-blue cascade for the hero, betweeen them a swath of crimson for battle, passion, blood – and that was the picture, or story, rather, except where a vivid detail might chance to spring to life, or a swift thought-arabesque be added.”

– FRITZ LEIBER

Author of Farewell to Lankhmar

A Del Rey® Book

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright © 1998 by Solomon Kane LLC

Solomon Kane is a registered trademark of Solomon Kane LLC

Illustrations copyright © 1998 by Gary Gianni

Editor: Rusty Burke

Series editor: Rusty Burke

Skulls in the Stars © 1928 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, January 1929

The Right Hand of Doom © 1968 by Glenn Lord for Red Shadows

Red Shadows © 1928 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, August 1928

Rattle of Bones © 1929 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, June 1929

The Castle of the Devil © 1968

by Glenn Lord for Red Shadows

Death's Black Riders © 1968 by Glenn Lord for The Howard Collector Vol 2, No. 4, Spring 1968

The Moon of Skulls © 1930 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, June, July 1930

The One Black Stain © 1962 by Glenn Lord for The Howard Collector, Spring 1962

Blades of the Brotherhood © 1968 by Glenn Lord for Red Shadows

The Hills of the Dead © 1930 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, August 1930

Hawk of Basti © 1968 by Glenn Lord for Red Shadows

The Return of Sir Richard Grenville © 1968 by Glenn Lord for Red Shadows

Wings in the Night © 1932 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, July 1932

The Footfalls Within © 1931 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, September 1931

The Children of Asshur © 1968 by Glenn Lord for Red Shadows

Solomon Kane's Homecoming © 1936 by Shepherd and Wollheim for Fanciful Tales, Fall 1936

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2003114908

eISBN 0-345-47851-7

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