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The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane | Robert E. Howard
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With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth centuryhe also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan wasnt the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howards 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 respecthe 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 fanatics faith and a warriors savage heart. This edition also features exclusive story fragments, a biography of Howard by scholar Rusty Burke, and In Memoriam, H. P. Lovecrafts moving tribute to his friend and fellow literary genius. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Pickpick

Finished my third book of my #EndOfYearReadingMarathon.

Conan, I think, has the better stories overall, but Solomon Kane is the better character.

The Del Rey collection also includes a powerful in memorium by HP Lovecraft and a masterful short bio of REH by Rusty Burke.

#REH #Pulp

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I commented in a blog post that Solomon Kane‘s Africa stories need N‘Longa, but he is absent from “Wings in the Night,” which may be REH‘s finest story period, let alone his finest Solomon Kane story.

The akaana in “Wings in the Night,” by the way, are almost certainly a major inspiration for the aarakocra from Dungeons & Dragons.

#EndOfYearReadingMarathon

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Change of venue! #EndOfYearReadingMarathon

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“I am a landless man. I come out of the sunset and into the sunrise I go.... The dawn is not far away and I would not have it find me idle.... The man of blood is dead. But there be other men of blood, and other trails of revenge and retribution.... While evil flourishes and wrongs grow rank, while men are persecuted and women wronged, while weak things...are maltreated, there is no rest for me beneath the skies, nor peace at any board or bed.”

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“Would you were handier with the steel, Sir George; I take shame in slaying you—but—well, when a man sets foot on an adder he asks not its size.”

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‪“Nay, alone I am a weak creature, having no strength or might in me; yet in times past hath God made me a great vessel of wrath and a sword of deliverance. And, I trust, shall do so again.” - Solomon Kane, The Moon Of Skulls‬

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‪“He was brave, as the bones on many a battlefield could testify, but the thought of dying like a sheep, helpless and with no chance of resistance, turned his blood cold.” - The Moon Of Skulls

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‪“Dead!” he muttered.‬
‪Slowly he rose, mechanically wiping his hands upon his cloak. A dark scowl had settled on his somber brow. Yet he made no wild, reckless vow, swore no oath by saints or devils.‬
‪“Men shall die for this,” he said coldly.‬
- Red Shadows
#SolomonKane #RobertEHoward

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‪“Dead!” he muttered.‬
‪Slowly he rose, mechanically wiping his hands upon his cloak. A dark scowl had settled on his somber brow. Yet he made no wild, reckless vow, swore no oath by saints or devils.‬
‪“Men shall die for this,” he said coldly.‬
- Red Shadows
#SolomonKane #RobertEHoward

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#UncannyOctober #PublishedInThe1930s

I'm going with a few classic of fantasy. The only one l still haven't read is Jirel of Joiry, though it's been on my TBR forever.
Solomon Kane is my favourite among Howard's creations, such a complex character. I like Livecraft, even if l'm not truly a fan. And Tolkien... l thing l've talked about Tolkien enough lately 😆

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#BackToReading #ShortOnTimeShortStories

There had been a time when l was a kid, when l would read lots of short stories. Anthologies were a lot more common than today.

Roberto E. Howard has always been one of my favourite authors and Salomon Kane is the character l prefer among his many.
This collection is one of the very first books l've read in English

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sking222
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Really like how this book is set-up.

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