Skulls in the Stars, Robert E. Howard
Skulls in the Stars, Robert E. Howard
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Skulls in the Stars

Author: Robert E. Howard

Narrator: Christopher Sorrensen

Unabridged: 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 08/20/2013

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Solomon Kane was heading to Torkertown and had two routes to choose from - a direct route across a moor, or a long tedious route through the swamps. Ignoring the warning of the villagers that he had just left behind, he decides that he will take the direct route across the moor. A young man of the village, seeing that Kane is heading towards the moor, rushes to beg him to please take the swamp route the next day instead of venturing through the moor at night. The boy tells him of the old miser, Ezra, who dwells on the moor but will be of no help, and his cousin Gideon who went crazy and died in the night. Kane, craving the adventure that lies ahead of him, decides to meet the madness of the moors head on. After a ghastly experience in the moor, Kane reveals to the village the truth of what is going on in the night.
Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) was an American author who made his name writing inexpensive fiction magazines known as pulp fiction. He is known as the father of sword and sorcery, a sub-genre of fantasy/historical fantasy, which involves sword-wielding heroes and violent adventures. Howard's most famous creation in this genre was Conan the Barbarian. He tragically committed suicide at the age of 30 but his name and literary legacy have lived on.

About Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) was an American pulp fiction writer who is best known as the creator of Conan, a character that has been featured in film, television, comics, and other media. Despite his suicide at the age of thirty, Howard wrote a huge number of stories in a variety of genres, including fantasy, westerns, horror, and even boxing stories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim on April 08, 2018

Published in Weird Tales in 1929, this story is perhaps to be taken as a sister piece to 'Rattle of Bones' also published that year and reviewed by us elsewhere. Howard published seven such stories, set in seventeenth century Africa and Europe, in 'Weird Tales' between 1928 and 1932 (with others appe......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 24, 2019

Skulls in the Stars has more emotional depth than Red Shadows. What begins as a simple battle between warrior and evil spirit takes a tragic turn of brotherly betrayal. The spirit has no control over its actions, it is restless and vengeful because it was betrayed and killed by someone it loved. Our......more

Goodreads review by Tom on March 23, 2023

3.25⭐ In England, Solomon Kane, a Puritan avenger is on his way to the hamlet of Torkertown, and must choose one of two paths, a direct route that leads across a moor or a winding tortuous one that leads through the quagmires of a swamp. He is warned by a village boy that the moor route is haunted an......more

Goodreads review by Curtis on February 17, 2023

Conan is cooler IMO, these stories feel like you're being rescued by Weird Al's Amish Paradise persona. I'd have probably liked them more if I read them in the 1920s rather than the 2020s. I enjoyed Ramsey Campbell's involvement and will read the other volume of Kane stories he put together.......more

Goodreads review by Emmanuel on September 27, 2014

My first time reading Solomon Kane and i loved it! I ve read many Conan stories and i must say Solomon is a great character, if not one of my favourites. He is a grim and dour man, a puritan with a strong faith, a swordsman wielding pistols, vanquishes evil in all its forms and has a warriors savage......more