The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, Robert E. Howard
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, Robert E. Howard
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The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

Author: Robert E. Howard

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 12 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/18/2010


Synopsis

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 was not 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 are all of the stories that make up the thrilling saga of the dour and deadly Puritan: "Skulls in the Stars," "The Right Hand of Doom," "Red Shadows," "Rattle of Bones," "The Castle of the Devil," "Death's Black Riders," "The Moon of Skulls," "The One Black Stain," "The Blue Flame of Vengeance," "The Hills of the Dead," "Hawk of Basti," "The Return of Sir Richard Grenville," "Wings in the Night," "The Footfalls Within," "The Children of Asshur," and "Solomon Kane's Homecoming."

About Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) was an American pulp fiction writer who is best known as the creator of Conan, a character that has been featured in film, television, comics, and other media. Despite his suicide at the age of thirty, Howard wrote a huge number of stories in a variety of genres, including fantasy, westerns, horror, and even boxing stories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dirk on February 28, 2015

The moon began to rise, lean and haggard, like a skull among the stars. In the very first few pages of reading this, I was reminded again of just how electrifying a writer Howard was. I can’t help but wonder what a legacy he would have amassed by now, had circumstances been different. (Howard passed......more

Goodreads review by Overhaul on April 18, 2024

Robert E. Howard (1906 - 1936) decidió desde joven convertirse en escritor profesional, y a ese empeño se dedicó en cuerpo y alma a lo largo de su breve carrera, tratando siempre de colocar sus relatos en revistas pulp de la época, como Amazing Stories o la mítica Weird Tales. Pletórico de ideas, es......more

Goodreads review by Little on December 26, 2023

Robert E. Howard is best know today for his iconic character Conan the Barbarian but he isn't even in my top 3 three favorites of Howard's characters. He created so many other amazing characters. Solomon Kane is #2 on my favorites list of Howard's characters. Here are all the unedited adventures col......more

Goodreads review by Werner on January 09, 2022

Note, Jan. 9, 2022: When I read short story collections intermittently over a period of time, my reactions are similarly written piecemeal, while they're fresh in my mind. That gives the reviews a choppy, and often repetitive, quality. I've now condensed and rearranged this one into a unified whole.......more

Goodreads review by Chris on September 05, 2024

Solomon Kane stories read differently than Robert E Howard’s famous Conan stories. Kane’s world is our world, although it’s about 400 years in the past and you only get a fleeting history lesson from his tales. Most stories here take place in Africa and the Middle East. Kane’s history isn’t particula......more