Some of Howard’s best-known characters–Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them–roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa. Just wanted anyone who chooses to read it not to be surprised.ĭescription: Here are Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Not a good thing, but a product of its time. This is a collections from the 1930s so there are a couple of non-PC words used including a couple of times the "milder" of the older racial terms is used. We find stories of evil and even redemption.so, four stars. We see mentions of dark and evil books, ones we're aware of (if we've read others, like Lovecraft) and a couple of Howard's own imagining. on werewolves as the first 2 tales take us down that road, but not to worry.things quickly get weirder (more weird?).īut, mostly the book is packed with the kind of frights you're/we're probably looking for. At first I was a little afraid we'd quickly O.D. Yes there are a few negatives, a few stories that don't measure up (or poems). Evils from out of time and alternate dimensions death and worse than death creep through the entire tome. In these pages you'll meet reptilian horrors, lycanthropes, demonic terrors and.humans, possibly the worst of the lot. This is a book to be picked up now and again and savored, not read through quickly and taken back. I took it out of the library twice and there are usually people waiting on it. I will probably try to run this book down and add it to my collection. I own collections of Conan, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn.so some of the stories here aren't new to me. But, I believe that the fright out weighs the "slight". Unfortunately all the stories in this volume don't quite make it to that level. Howard can spin terror to a hair fine thread that like the "monomolecular" wire in some Science fiction stories can cut straight through. I vacillated constantly between 3 and 4 stars for this book. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare “Worms of the Earth” and “The Cairn on the Headland,” Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the world’s great masters of the macabre. In “Black Canaan” even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers–and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. The collection includes Howard’s masterpiece “Pigeons from Hell,” which Stephen King calls “one of the finest horror stories of century,” a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation–and into the maw of its fatal secret. ![]() Here are Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions.
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