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| Author: Robert E. Howard
Publisher: Del Rey
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0345461509
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780345461506
ASIN: 0345461509
Publication Date: June 29, 2004
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 Nice New Discovery October 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I received this as a gift and I didn't think I was going to like it because I am not a Conan fan. But I loved it! Solomon Kane is kind of like a Puritan Van Helsing. The stories are mix of horror and supernatural with a little mystery and superhero sprinkled in. This is a great classic style of storytelling. I recommend this for teen upwards and mainly for people who like the above mentioned categories, along with fantasy and science fiction. The tales in this book are short enough to read to relax before bed time (if you are not bothered by scary subject matter causing nightmares-never had a problem with that myself), and even the longer ones are so engaging that they read quick. I am pleased with this gift.
 It's no Lovecraft....but it has charm October 17, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Howard had a brilliant fast past writing style...he was definately far ahead of his time...as were many of the Weird tales writers. I will be very curious to see what they do with the movie. Definately a must for fans of the Pulp horror genre
Super Reader September 1, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This has a rather interesting biographical introduction of Robert E. Howard, as an added bonus, so, certainly a volume of the Kane tales that is worth having, from that point of view, if you already have them, or most of them. There are also a couple of Solomon Kane poems, including two versions of Solomon Kane's homecoming.
Skulls in the Stars
The Right Hand of Doom
Red Shadows
Rattle of Bones
The Castle of the Devil
Death's Black Riders
The Moon of Skulls
The One Black Stain
The Blue Flame of Vengeance
The Hills of the Dead
Hawk of Basti
Wings in the Night
The Footfalls Within
The Children of Asshur
Kane is tracking, and being hunted by a swamp fiend, and realises when fighting it:
"For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand."
He finds the man that created the fiend, and adds the man to its list of victims, to appease it.
3.5 out of 5
Kane encounters a man in a tavern who has betrayed a friend who happens to be a necromancer. This leads to an executioner, but the necromancer slices off his hand first and sends it on an errand of revenge.
4 out of 5
Kane comes across Le Loup twice in his life, once after he comes across
a dying girl, one of his kills, and once at the temple of the Black
God. He leaves him mortality challenged, and watches as his underling,
Gulka the gorilla slayer finds a ape who is more than a match for him.
3.5 out of 5
In which Kane enters the Cleft Skull tavern, and finds that is most definitely lives up to its name.
3 out of 5
Just the start of a story, where Kane saves a hanged boy, and meets another wanderer, conversing about the local Baron who had condemned the lad.
3 out of 5
This one is only a short part, so :-
"Black ride the men who ride with Death
beneath the midnight sky,
"And black each steed and grey each skull
and strange each deathly eye.
"They have given their breath to grey old Death
and yet they cannot die."
When Kane shoots one pointblank in the face it does go down.
4 out of 5
After winning a duel, Kane hears the loser confess to selling a girl into slavery. He sets out to track her down. The problem is that she is a prisoner of Nakari, the vampire queen of Negari, and due to be sacrified on the Black Altar in the Tower of Death because she is one of those useful pesky virgins.
4 out of 5
Kane lends a hand when a young man and his girlfriend fall foul of a local rich bloke who is part of a gang of pirates.
4 out of 5
This involves Kane's relationship with N'Longa, and how he came to possess his staff. Also, Kane, Zunna and N'Longa are involved in some vampire hunting and slaying.
3.5 out of 5
Solomon, wandering, runs into an old acquaintance. Jeremy Hawk, your over the top pirate type, who tells him of the horrors he has seen of the locals at Basti.
He tells Kane that a couple of guns and two stout men could take over the place.
3 out of 5
Solomon Kane is deep in cannibal country, when he comes across even worse. Flying man-beasts that are too many for him to fight, and he is overcome.
When he wakens, he realises he is alive, even though he should not be, and is told of the akaanas, or flying-men, and realizes they may be the source of the Mediterranean harpy legend.
Kane has an advantage against them the others do not, he has firearms, and the staff of N'Longa. He sets out to deal with this menace methodically.
3.5 out of 5
Kane is following a band of slavers, and is unable to help himself when he sees them stop and start to whip a girl to death. Despatching many, he is overcome by the dozens of others, and forced to march as a slave.
A nasty supernatural end awaits his captors, where his possession of the Bast-headed staff of N'Longa in the past is no bad thing.
3.5 out of 5
Kane comes across an armoured warrior, who attacks him, they fight, but both lose consciousness. When he wakes, he is a prisoner in a strange offshoot tribe of Assyrians perhaps, and is stuck there for some time.
When another tribe attacks them later on his gaolers are distracted enough that he can overpower one and make a break for it, pausing to rescue a girl from a lion.
3 out of 5
4.5 out of 5
Among his best work March 17, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I grew up reading Howard's Conan stories and was looking for something fun to read recently. These stories fit the bill. If you want adventure that virtually reads itself try this book.
In a world of gibbering daemons and grinning gods! January 3, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is another of the wonderful Del Ray editions of the magnificent work of Robert E. Howard. While Solomon Kane might not be as important as Howard's principal creation, Conan the Cimmerian, this wonderfully brutal English Puritan is a fascinating creation and full of the Howard out worldly magic.
Kane is perhaps a darker character than Conan (who was pretty dark himself), and certainly more mysterious and strange. Kane is an English puritan that feels compelled through some odd, inner voice (perhaps the word of God) to wander, of all places, Africa. The Africa of Solomon Kane is a world of supernatural magic and gibbering daemons - a land where all legends and myths (including the lost kingdom of Atlantis, vampires, and the winged harpies of Jason, to name a few) find a home. Kane faces them all with a sword, flintlock pistol, and a terrible sense of Justice and defense of the weak.
Perhaps my favorite piece was a brief fragment of a story called "Death's Black Riders," where Howard describes death sweeping like a dark wind through the corporal bodies of Solomon Kane and his mount, leaving both mysteriously transformed. It is a beautifully done page or so and suggests that perhaps Howard saw Kane as God's Angel of Death, walking the earth.
What was it about Howard that is so gripping and memorable? Well, he wrote of a kind of epic, romantic heroism - a barbaric purity, that is sorely missing in today's society and certainly in today's writing. He wrote about heroes and kings, black gods and slavering devils. Boys and men will always find something to treasure in Robert E. Howard.
Heck, the magnificent Del Ray editions are even illustrated, this one by Gary Gianni who does a great job in visualizing the stark, harshness of this death dealing puritan. What a Godsend for Howard fans. Highly recommended and then some. -Mykal Banta
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