The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

Here are Howardâ€™s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howardâ€™s best-known charactersâ€“Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among themâ€“roam the forbidding locales of the authorâ€™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 Howardâ€™s masterpiece â€œPigeons from Hell,â€ which Stephen King calls â€œone of the finest horror stories of [the twentieth] century,â€ a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantationâ€“and into the maw of its fatal secret. In â€œBlack Canaanâ€ even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powersâ€“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 â€œWorms of the Earthâ€ and â€œThe Cairn on the Headland,â€ Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the worldâ€™s great masters of the macabre.

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