The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

Resumen del libro

With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan wasn't the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howard's fertile imagination.

He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.

Collected in this volume, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, are all of the stories and poems that make up the thrilling saga of the dour and deadly Puritan, Solomon Kane. Together they constitute a sprawling epic of weird fantasy adventure that stretches from sixteenth-century England to remote African jungles where no white man has set foot. Here are shudder-inducing tales of vengeful ghosts and bloodthirsty demons, of dark sorceries wielded by evil men and women, all opposed by a grim avenger armed with a fanatic's faith and a warrior's savage heart.

Biografía del autor

(Peaster, Texas, 1906 -Cross Plains, Texas, 1936) fue uno de los impulsores de los relatos de espada y brujería que publicó durante los años treinta, fundamentalmente en la revista Weird Tales. Influyó poderosamente en la moderna fantasía heroica con personajes tan populares como primarios, entre los que destacan Conan el Bárbaro, Kull de Atlantis, Solomon Kane y el guerrero picto Bran Mak Morn, muchos de ellos llevados al cómic y ocasionalmente al cine. Solitario y huraño, desde 1924 mantuvo una estrecha relación epistolar con Howard P. Lovecraft. Muy ligado a su madre, cuando esta entró en coma, él se suicidó.