Name: The Horror Stories of Robert e. Howard
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Author: Robert E. Howard
ISBN: 9780345490209

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert E. Howard

Publisher

Random House Worlds

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

523

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.3 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.75 kg.

ISBN

0345490207

ISBN13

9780345490209

Synopsis "The Horror Stories of Robert e. Howard"

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.

Robert E. Howard

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(1906-1936) fue un escritor estadounidense de aventuras históricas y fantásticas. Fue pionero y creador del sub-género de "Espada y Brujería", gracias a la creación de personajes como “Kull De Atlantis”, "Solomon Kane" y "Conan". Sus historias fueron publicadas principalmente en la revista Weird Tales en los años 1930. Para esta revista ideó numerosos personajes que lo convirtieron en uno de los escritores más exitosos de su tiempo. En su período de esplendor como autor mantuvo correspondencia con H. P. Lovecraft y Clark Ashton Smith. Es, junto con J. R. R. Tolkien, uno de los escritores más influyentes de la fantasía heroica moderna.

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