Book description
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.
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1 author picked The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I was drawn to the character Solomon Kane, a Puritan traveling the lands of this world only to seek out evil and to slay it. It didn’t matter of the evil in his sight were monstrous or human, he would extinguish it.
How can anyone not be drawn into the stories of Solomon Kane and not find them impressive. I wasn’t aware of the classic pulp tales of the early 1900s until I stumbled upon Solomon Kane. My introduction to him led me to countless other pulps which still hold up to today and should be enjoyed by readers everywhere.
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