Skullcrusher: The Very Best Weird Fiction 1927-1935

by Robert E. Howard

Overview

SKULLCRUSHER is a definitive collection of classic weird fiction comprising the 20 very best stories by legendary pulp author Robert E Howard. These stories feature all of Howard's most famous creations – Conan, King Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn – plus others such as Cormac Mac Art, James Allison, Red Sonya, and Cormac Mcgeoffrey – in a pulsating anthology of sword and sorcery, weird adventure, and occult horror in the vein of H P Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Stories include: RED SHADOWS, MOON OF SKULLS, WINGS IN THE NIGHT, THE SHADOW KINGDOM, THE MIRRORS OF TUZUN THUNE, KINGS OF THE NIGHT, WORMS OF THE EARTH, SKULLFACE, THE BLACK STONE, BLACK CANAAN, VALLEY OF THE WORM, RED NAILS, THE SCARLET CITADEL, QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST, BEYOND THE BLACK RIVER, THE PHOENIX ON THE SWORD, BLOOD OF BELSHAZZAR, THE GODS OF BAL-SOGOTH, SHADOW OF THE VULTURE, and SOWERS OF THE THUNDER. Howard conjures a pulp inferno of horror, black magic, obscene rites, bloody carnage, dismemberment and death, in a dark and violent universe which is all his own. With additional texts by HP Lovecraft and D M Mitchell.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908694898
Publisher:	Elektron Ebooks
Publication date:	05/26/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Robert Ervin Howard (1906¿1936) wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard spent time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing—which he also wrote stories about. His tales of heroic & supernatural fantasy won him a huge audience across the world and influenced a whole generation of writers, from Robert Jordan to Raymond E. Feist.