The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
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4.3 • 12 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Here are Robert E. Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions.
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.
The collection includes Howard’s masterpiece “Pigeons from Hell,” which Stephen King calls “one of the finest horror stories of [the twentieth] century,” a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation–and into the maw of its fatal secret. 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. 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.
Customer Reviews
Popular and Lesser Known Stories
While not every story in this collection ranks among Howard's best, it is definitely a great collection, and includes a number of excellent stories that are sometimes hard to find. This collection is also an excellent introduction to Howard for new readers.
It includes some classic Howard stories, like "Worms of the Earth", "Pigeons from Hell" (adapted for an episode of the old Boris Karloff "Thriller" TV series, btw), and the "Fire of Asshurbanipal". It also contains a number of good reads that don't find their way into print too often these days, such as "The Horror from the Mound", "Old Garfield's Heart" and "Black Canaan".
We'll worth the price, lots of pulp horror fun, and some nice illustrations to boot. Highly recommend.
Readers unfamiliar with Howard and his contemporaries should note the stories were written in the 30's, and include some racial commentary and characters that will likely be offensive to some. The stories are generally quite good, but many are not politically correct by today's standards.