The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2

✍ Scribed by Howard, Robert E

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 8 MB
• Series: The Best of Robert E Howard 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345502506

✦ Synopsis

"[Behind Howard's stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams." ****
--Robert Bloch _

_"Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks."
--Stephen King

The classic pulp magazines of the early twentieth century are long gone, but their action-packed tales live on through the work of legendary storyteller Robert E. Howard. From his fecund imagination sprang an army of larger-than-life heroes--including the iconic Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn--as well as adventures that would define a genre for generations. Now comes the second volume of this author's breathtaking short fiction, which runs the gamut from sword and sorcery, historical epic, and seafaring pirate adventure to two-fisted crime and intrigue, ghoulish horror, and rip-roaring western.

Kull reigns supreme in "By This Axe I Rule!" and "The Mirrors of Tuzan Thune"; Conan conquers in one of...