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Robert E Howard | 414 pages | 29 Jun 2004 | Random House USA Inc | 9780345461506 | English | New York, United States The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard: | : Books

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The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane was a dangerous and tedious trail; so Solomon Kane halted in amazement when a breathless youth from the village he had just left, overtook him and implored him for God's sake to take the swamp road. He was a tall, gaunt man, was Solomon Kane, his darkly pallid face and deep brooding eyes made more somber by the drab Puritanical garb he affected. You had better return to the village and continue your journey in the morning, sir. By its light I can reach Torkertown in a few hours, across the moor. No one ever goes that way. There are no houses at all upon the moor, while in the swamp there is the house of old Ezra who lives there all alone since his maniac cousin, Gideon, wandered off and died in the swamp and was never found - and old Ezra though a miser would not refuse you lodging should you decide to stop until morning. Since you must go, you had better go the swamp road. The lad squirmed and shuffled his feet. We hoped that you would take the swamp road after the men advised you to, but when we watched and saw that you turned not at the forks, they sent me to run after you and beg you to reconsider. It is death to walk those moors by night, as hath been found by some score of unfortunates. Some foul horror haunts the way and claims men for his victims. And what is this thing like? None has ever seen it and lived, but late-farers have heard terrible laughter far out on the fen and men have heard the horrid shrieks of its victims. Sir, in God's name return to the village, there pass the The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, and tomorrow take the swamp trail to Torkertown. His blood quickened. The lure of life-risk and battle! The thrill of breathtaking, touch-and-go drama! Not that Kane recognized his sensations as such. He sincerely considered that he voiced his real feelings when he said: "These things be deeds of some power of evil. The lords of darkness have laid a curse upon the country. A strong man is needed to combat Satan and his might. Therefore I go, who have defied him many a time. He only added, "The corpses of the victims are bruised and torn, sir. The sun was setting as Kane came over the brow of the low hill which debouched into the upland fen. Huge and blood-red it sank down behind the sullen horizon of the moors, seeming to touch the The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane grass with fire; so for a moment the watcher seemed to be gazing out across a sea of blood. Then the dark shadows came gliding from the The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, the western blaze faded, and Solomon Kane struck out boldly in the gathering darkness. The road was dim from disuse but was clearly defined. Kane went swiftly but warily, sword and pistols at hand. Stars blinked out and night winds whispered among the grass like weeping specters. The moon began to rise, lean and haggard, like a skull among the stars. Then suddenly Kane stopped short. From somewhere in front of him sounded a strange and eery echo - or something like an echo. Again, this time louder. Kane started forward again. Were his senses deceiving him? Far out, there pealed a whisper of frightful laughter. And again, closer this time. No human being ever laughed like that - there was no mirth in it, only hatred and horror and soul-destroying terror. Kane halted. He was not afraid, but for the second he was almost unnerved. Then, stabbing through that awesome laughter, came the sound of a The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane that was undoubtedly human. Kane started forward, increasing his gait. He cursed the illusive lights and flickering shadows which veiled the moor in the rising moon and made accurate sight impossible. The laughter continued, growing louder, as did the screams. Then sounded faintly the drum of frantic human feet. The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane broke into a run. Some human was being hunted to his death out there on the fen, and by what manner of horror God alone knew. The sound of the flying feet halted abruptly and the screaming rose unbearably, mingled with other sounds unnamable and hideous. Evidently the man had been overtaken, and Kane, his flesh crawling, visualized some ghastly fiend of the darkness crouching on the back of its victim - crouching and tearing. Then the noise of a terrible and short struggle came clearly through the abysmal silence of the fen and the footfalls began again, but stumbling and uneven. The screaming continued, but with a gasping gurgle. The sweat stood cold on Kane's forehead and body. This was heaping horror on horror in an intolerable manner. God, for a moment's clear light! The frightful drama was being enacted within a very short distance of him, to judge by the ease with which the sounds reached him. But this hellish half-light veiled all in shifting shadows, so that the moors appeared a haze of blurred illusions, and stunted trees and bushes seemed like giants. Kane shouted, striving to increase the speed of his advance. The shrieks of the unknown broke into a hideous shrill squealing; again there was the sound of a struggle, and then from the shadows of the tall grass a thing came reeling - a thing that had once been a man - a gore-covered, frightful thing that fell at Kane's feet and writhed and groveled and raised its terrible face to the rising moon, and gibbered and yammered, and fell down again and died in its own blood. The moon was up now and the light was better. Kane bent above the body, which lay stark in its unnamable mutilation, and he shuddered - a The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane thing for him, who had seen the deeds of the Spanish Inquisition and the witch-finders. Some wayfarer, he supposed. Then like a hand of ice on his spine he was aware that he was not alone. He looked up, his cold eyes piercing the shadows whence the dead man had staggered. He saw nothing, but he knew - he felt - that other eyes gave back his stare, terrible The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane not of this earth. He straightened and drew a pistol, waiting. The moonlight spread like a lake of pale blood over the moor, and trees and grasses took on their The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane sizes. The shadows melted, and Kane saw! At first he thought it only a shadow of mist, a wisp of moor fog that swayed in the tall grass before him. He gazed. More illusion, he thought. Then The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane thing began to take on shape, vague and indistinct. Two hideous eyes flamed at him - eyes which held all the stark horror which has been the heritage of man since the fearful dawn ages - eyes frightful and insane, with an insanity transcending earthly insanity. The form of the thing was misty and vague, a brain-shattering travesty on the human form, like, yet horridly unlike. The grass and bushes beyond showed clearly through it. Kane felt the blood pound in his temples, yet he was as The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane as ice. How such an unstable being as that The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane wavered before him could harm a man in a physical way was more than he could understand, yet the red horror at his feet gave mute testimony that the fiend could act with terrible material effect. Of one thing Kane was sure: there would be no hunting of him across the dreary moors, no screaming and fleeing to be dragged down again and again. If he must die he would die in his tracks, his wounds in front. Now a vague and grisly mouth gaped wide and the demoniac laughter again shrieked out, soul-shaking in its nearness. And in the midst of that threat of doom, Kane deliberately leveled his long pistol and fired. A maniacal yell of rage and mockery answered the report, and the thing came at him like a flying sheet of smoke, long shadowy arms stretched to drag him down. Kane, moving with the dynamic speed of a famished wolf, fired the second pistol with as little effect, snatched his long rapier from its sheath and thrust into the center of the misty attacker. The blade sang as it passed clear through, encountering no solid resistance, and Kane felt icy fingers grip his limbs, bestial talons tear his garments and the skin beneath. He dropped the useless sword and sought to grapple with his foe. It was like fighting a floating mist, a flying shadow armed with daggerlike claws. His savage blows met empty air, his leanly mighty arms, in whose grasp strong men had died, swept nothingness and clutched emptiness. Naught was solid or real save the flaying, apelike fingers with their crooked talons, and the crazy eyes which burned into the shuddering depths of his soul. Kane realized that he was in a desperate plight indeed. Already his garments hung in tatters and he bled from a score of deep wounds. The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard

Howard with an Introduction by M. Follow along Kane's restless travels with pistol and rapier as he is compelled to be a weapon of God, ridding The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane world of evil wherever it may be found -- from the jungles of to the high seas, and whether cannibal, demon, vampire, Before , Robert E. The deluxe Subterranean Press Robert E. Howard's sixteenth-century Puritan adventurer has captured the imaginations of readers for decades. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian barbarian stories The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane in the original magazine during Howard's lifetime"--Copyright page. He's a weapon of God, stalking the The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane Century! A tall, grim wanderer, roving the Earth to right all its wrongs! Let those who worship the power of evil beware, lest they face Solomon Kane! Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo. Nourse ' s latest collection of short storiesranging from toand including two previously unpublished stories. I am a bit disappointed that there wasn ' t enough evidence to trace the line to ConanBran Mac Momor Solomon Kane. In France, Solomon Kane finds a girl attacked by a gang of brigands led by a villain known as Le Loup. As she dies in his arms, Kane determines to avenge her death, and the trail leads from France to the wilds of Africa…. Skip to content. 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. 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 The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane and women, all opposed by a grim avenger armed with a fanatic's faith and a warrior's savage heart. Sombre of mood, clad in black and grey, he 'never sought to analyse his motives and he never wavered once his mind was made up. Though he always acted on impulse, he firmly believed that all his actions were governed by cold and logical reasonings A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things, and avenge all crimes against right and justice'. Immune to the attractions of The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane opposite sex, he seems drawn by some psychological distress beacon to The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane where he knows only that he will be called upon to defend the helpless or more often exact retribution on their behalf. Himself a Christian, possessed of enormous strength and skill in swordplay, he yet has little hesitation in calling upon the assistance of his Voodoo- practising friend N'Longa when strength, skill and Christian belief are not enough. Howard since This massive volume contains more than twice as much information as the preceding biblio, The Last Celt. Howard is considered the Godfather of Sword and Sorcery, and the creator of the international icon, Conan the Cimmerian, yet wrote successfully in numerous genres. The Neverending Hunt lists every story, poem, letter and publication in which The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane Howard work has appeared. It's more than you might think. Now all of the Savage Sword of Conan short stories from the The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane are collected for the first time: equal parts comics adaptations of Howard's formative tales and inspired new chapters from venerable scribes and Don Glut Kull the Destroyer! Follow along Kane's restless travels with pistol and rapier as he is compelled to be a weapon of God, ridding the world of evil wherever it The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane be found -- from The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane jungles of Africa to the high seas, and whether cannibal, demon, vampire, or pirate! Subterranean Press is proud to continue this series of limited editions, beginning with Kull: Exile of , exquisitely illustrated with color plates and black and white illustrations illuminating the text. We plan to match or better the quality of materials used in the Wandering Star editions, and will be doing the other books in the series, including the third volume of Conan stories, as well as The Best of Robert E. Howard, volumes one and two, and much more. Now all of the Savage Sword of Conan short stories from the s are collected for the first time: equal parts comics adaptations of Howard's formative tales and inspired new chapters, follow along Kane's restless travels with pistol and rapier as he is compelled to be a weapon of God, ridding the world of evil The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane it may be found from the jungles of Africa to the high seas, and whether, demon, vampire, or pirate! Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author. This pulp-size softcover is the same physical size and layout as the original s pulp magazines in which the stories first ran. This softcover edition includes a searchable, sharable interactive PDF edition of the book as downloadable bonus content. Excerpt from Introduction: "When the first story appeared in the pages of Weird Tales magazine in Decembernothing quite like it had ever before appeared in print. Author Robert E. Howard had been writing stories broadly similar to it for half a decade; but it was with Conan, and the Hyborian Age storyworld in which he was placed, The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane Howard finally fully doped out the sub- genre that would become known as "sword and sorcery," of which Howard is today considered the founding father. The idea - Howard's great innovation - was, at its core, historical fiction set in a pre-historical period. That pre-historical period - being, of course, lost in the mists of time - could contain anything Howard might like to include: evil races of sentient snake-things, sorcerers, undead creatures, demons walking upon the earth, anything. Kane's world was the skull-strewn chaos of and north Africa during the Thirty Years War, in the early s. Little enough is known about specific events during that dark time that it was possible to take historical liberties with it as a storyworld, so that it could accommodate dark magic, walking skeletons, vampires, magic staffs, and, of course, N'Longa the witch-doctor. Here was a dark, brooding world of menace and witchcraft connected The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane to their own. It was easy for readers to "take the ride" - to suspend their disbelief and envision Kane's adventures as a part of the real world. The countries of s Europe are well known; the causes of the conflict fully understood. There was only so much Howard could do in Solomon Kane's world. Moreover, Solomon Kane is just a hard character to root for. Unlike Kull, he is, not to put too fine a point on it, really not a sane man. And to play the role of our avatar as we explore this shadowy, almost-historical world, he gave us Conan the Cimmerian - to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet. He sprang from the mind of Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard - and just like the Cimmerian, this Puritan adventurer was a comic book sensation! Now Kane's complete, classic Marvel adventures are collected in one jaw-dropping Omnibus volume! Featuring adaptations of Howard's formative tales and new chapters by such scribes as Roy Thomas and -all filled with pirates, cannibals, demons and vampires! Selected by a blue-ribbon jury of artists, designers, and art directors, Spectrum 6 features over full color paintings, drawings, and sculptures by today's most exciting creators including Donato Ciancola, Alex Ross, Jeffrey Jones, Michael Whelan, John Jude Palencar, James Gurney, Phil Hale, Gary Kelley, Brom, and nearly more exceptional talents. Also included is an insightful, sometimes biting look back at the previous year's highlights as well as Spectrum's recognition of visionary painter John Berkey with the Grand Master Award. Pulp master Robert E. These ghostly stories and more await you within The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings, a collection of original short horror stories by an award-winning lineup of comics' top talent. The Savage Tales Of Solomon Kane [PDF] Download Full – PDF Read Book Page

Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp -era writer Robert E. A late 16th—early 17th century PuritanSolomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms. His adventures, published mostly in the Weird Talesoften take him from Europe to the jungles of Africa and back. Howard described him as a tall, sombre and gloomy man of pale skin, gaunt face and cold eyes, all of it shadowed by a slouch hat. He is dressed entirely in black and his weaponry usually consists of a rapiera dirkand a brace of flintlock pistols. During one of his later adventures his friend N'Longa, an African shamangave him a juju staff that served as a protection against evil but could The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane be wielded as a weapon. It is revealed in another story, "The Footfalls Within", that this is the mythical Staff of Solomona talisman older than the Earth and unimaginably powerful, much more so than even N'Longa knew. In the same adventure with N'Longa, Kane is seen using a musket as well. When Weird Tales published the story " ", featuring Conan the Barbarianthe editors introduced it as a tale of "a barbarian adventurer named Conan, remarkable for his sheer force of The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane and brute strength. Its author, Robert E. Howard, is already a favorite with the readers of this magazine for his stories of Solomon Kane, the dour English Puritan and redresser of wrongs". Most of the Solomon Kane stories were first published in Weird Tales. The order of publication, however, does not coincide with the order in which the stories were written. This was the first Solomon Kane story ever published. In France, Kane finds a girl attacked by a gang of brigands led by a villain known as le Loup. As she dies in his arms, Kane determines to avenge her death, and the trail leads from France to Africa, ending with Kane's first meeting with N'Longa. First published in Weird TalesJanuary In England, Kane is on his way to the hamlet of Torkertown, and must choose one of two paths, a route that leads through a moor or one that leads through a swamp. He is warned that the moor route is haunted and all travelers who take that road die, so he decides to investigate. First published in Weird TalesJune Kane goes to Africa on the trail of an English girl named Marylin Taferal, kidnapped from her home and sold to Barbary pirates by her cousin. When he finds the hidden city of Negari, he encounters Nakari, "the vampire queen of Negari". First published in Weird TalesAugust In Africa again, Kane's old friend N'Longa the witch doctor from "Red Shadows" gives the Puritan a magic wooden staff, the Staff of Solomon, which will protect him in his travels. Kane enters the jungle and finds a city of vampires. First published in Weird TalesSeptember In Africa again, Kane encounters Arab slave traders busily engaged driving slaves to market. He rushes to save a girl whom the slavers are mistreating but is himself overwhelmed and taken prisoner. First published in Weird TalesJuly In Africa again, Kane comes across an entire village wiped out, and all of the roofs have been ripped off, as if by something attempting to get inside from above. First published in Red ShadowsGrant Also known as "The Blue Flame of Vengeance". On the English coast, Kane battles the Fishhawk and his fellow pirates in a historical action tale with no fantasy elements. Writer John Pocsik was commissioned by founder to "edit" Howard's prose and to add a weird element for his anniversary anthology Over the Edge. REH scholar L. Sprague de Camp and author are both reported to have thought highly of the "new" version. First published in Red Shadows. Kane plays a minimal role in this story. A condemned wizard, Roger Simeon, seeks revenge on John Redly, the man who betrayed him. Kane arrives in a tavern, where he is greeted by John Redly, whom is bragging about having played a fundamental role in the capture of Roger Simeon, a necromancer that will be executed the following morning. Kane despises him as a traitor, even though his action had allowed the capture of an evil individual. During the night, Kane is awakened by a strange noise that seems to come from outside the room window and, when he watches outside, he can see something The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane the room next to his. Kane holds his sword and enters the nearby room, where Redly The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane asleep. The window is open and a weird thing, similar to a large black spider, is crawling inside. Kane is paralyzed by terror as he watched the thing climb the bed of Redly and, than, drop down to his neck and, an instant later, crack its bones. As John Redly lies dead, Kane is able to peirce the thing with the tip his The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, only to see that it is a human hand, covered with black hair and with a snake-shaped ring on its middle finger. The following morning, Kane is leaving the town and meets a young boy, whom tells hime that Roger Simeon, the necromancer, has been hanged at dawn and when he died, he had a deep smile on his face. Asked by Kane, the boy also tells him that the wizard went to the gallows pole with one hand only, since, as his last will, the The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane before, he had asked the prison guards to cut his right hand and cast it outside the prison window. As he was lying in the prison, Simeon, kept The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane murmuring what seemed directions to an invisible auditor and, at dawn, when he was already hanging from The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane rope, in a last effort, he seemed to strangulate someone with his handless arm. Having understood what had happened, Kane, finally, asks if Simeon's hand were covered by black hair and The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane a snake-like The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, and the boy confirms. First published in The Howard Collector 10Spring Just a few lines completed. Kane meets a shadowy ghost rider on the road. First published in Red ShadowsGrant, Both men head to the Baron's castle for a reckoning. Kane's old acquaintance, Jeremy Hawk, was once the king of an African lost civilization, and wants to resume that role. Kane fights side-by-side with the ghost of Sir Richard Grenvilleat whose death Kane had been present. After years The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane wandering, Kane comes back to England "to live forever in my place. This work contains a dialog exchange between Kane and a local man: "Where is Bess? Woe that I caused her tears. In the Howard fragment, "Hawk The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane Basti," Kane says of this monarch, "She herself has lied to and betrayed the folk of my faith Some fans consider "Bess" to be the love interest of Solomon Kane. There is no other mention of Bess in the stories, but given the character of Kane, a story has been read between the lines: Bess and Kane have shared The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane love, but the wayfaring nature of Kane has forced him to pursue his adventures. Perhaps he has The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane to come home to start a family with Bess, but upon hearing of her death, breaks all connections to home and leaves again without returning. The Staff of Solomon is an ancient staff that N'Longa presented to Kane to aid him in his adventures. It is described as sharp-pointed on one end and with the head of a cat on the other, made of a wood that no longer exists on Earth. The staff is covered with ancient hieroglyphs The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, along with the cat's head, were added a very long time after the staff was created. Using the staff Kane can communicate over distances with N'Longa, and it has also been used to slay vampires and evil spirits. Having carried it for an extended period seems to have endowed Kane with the ability to sense the presence of otherworldly beings. When Kane is taken prisoner by slavers, one of their party, "Yussef the Hadji", recognizes the staff for what it is. He says the staff is older than the world itself and holds mighty magic. The cat-head is a representation of Bastand the priests of Bast used the staff in ancient Egypt. The feline head which now decorates the staff's top was itself carved out of a pre-existing decoration, though it is now impossible to say what manner of eldritch symbol or creature was originally effigiated on it. With the staff known as Musa in Arabic did wonders before the Pharaoh and carried it with him when his people fled Egypt. For centuries it was the Scepter of Israel mentioned in Numbersand Solomon used it to combat magicians and capture djinns. The staff may be related to Aaron's rodMoses' rod or the Rod of Asclepius. Before this, when the world was young, Atlanteanpre-Adamite priests in silent cities beneath the seas used the staff to fight evil, millions of years before mankind was born. He is an ancient African shaman, who is driven to study magic. He has travelled the world in ancient times as a slave, secretly studying under various sorcerers and holy men of the Middle and Near East. In Judea he acquired the Staff of Solomon, which he later gave to Solomon Kane to aid him in his wanderings. N'Longa's magical powers derive from his ability to send his spirit out of his body. He can take over the bodies of the living and dead through this method, to communicate with Solomon Kane through the Staff of Solomon, and also summons the vultures by sending his spirit to parley with them. A French criminal mastermind his name means "the wolf" whom Kane spent several years tracking down to avenge the murder of a dying girl he found, and her whole village. Kane eventually tracks The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane Loup to Africa, where he first meets N'Longa, and justice is served. His real name is Jonas Hardraker and he is known on all coasts of the civilized world as a ruthless pirate. He is a tall, rangy, broad-shouldered man, with a lean hawk-like cruel face. Solomon Kane hunted him for two years after The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane sank a ship that was carrying the daughter of an old friend The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane Kane, the old friend having gone mad after hearing of his The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane death. There are currently three audio-book recordings of Solomon Kane stories and poems, all currently available for purchase and download through Audible. There is one free audio drama production:. Bassett writing and directing. Patrick Tatopouloscreature designer for GodzillaUnderworldSilent HillThe Savage Tales of Solomon Kane Am Legend and others, conceptualized the monsters Kane fights in his battles with the forces of evil. Pinnacle Entertainment Group has published a role-playing game based on the character utilizing the Savage Worlds rules system, titled The Savage World of Solomon Kane. In addition to game rules, the book features a background and summaries of Howard's original stories and an original adventure campaign featuring a group of wanderers following the path of Kane and revisiting places changed by Solomon's actions. Mythic Games is developing a narrative adventure board game simply titled Solomon Kane based on Robert E. Howard's original stories and characters. The game is a co-op style board game where players represent the virtues that drive Solomon Kane forwards in his quest against darkness. Kane's various adventures are told in the game through one or more actswhich break down into smaller chapters of gameplay. These are scenarios with multiple possible outcomes and branching story arcswhere the players also have a chance of diverging from the original stories of Robert E. Howard and instead explore a number of "what The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane scenarios written by Mythic Games.