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The horror stories of Robert E. Howard / illustrated by Greg Staples.

Title
The horror stories of Robert E. Howard / illustrated by Greg Staples.
Author
Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936.
Publication
New York : Del Rey, c2008.

Details

Description
xxv, 523 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Here are Howard's greatest horror tales, all in thier 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"--Page 4 of cover.
Subject
Horror tales, American
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-523).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
In the forest of Villefere -- A song of the werewolf folk -- Wolfshed -- Up, John Kane! -- Remembrance -- Dream snake -- Sea curse -- Moor ghost -- Moon mockery -- Little people -- Dead man's hate -- Tavern -- Rattle of bones -- Fear that follows -- Spirit of Tom Molyneaux -- Casonetto's last song -- Touch of death -- Out of the deep -- A legend of Faring Town -- Restless waters -- Shadow of the beast -- Dead slaver's tale -- Dermod's bane -- Hills of the dead -- Dig me no grave -- Song of a mad minstrel -- Children of the night -- Musings -- Black stone -- Thing on the roof -- Dweller in Dark Valley -- Horror from the mound -- Dull sound as of knocking -- People of the dark -- Delenda Est -- Cairn on the headland -- Worms of the Earth -- The symbol -- Valley of the lost -- Hoofed thing -- Noseless horror -- Dwellers under the tomb -- An open window -- House of Arabu -- Man on the ground -- Old Garfield's heart -- Kelly the conjure-man -- Black Canaan -- To a woman -- One who comes at Eventide -- Haunter of the ring -- Pigeons from hell -- Dead remember -- Fire of Asshurbanipal -- Fragment -- Which will scarcely be understood -- Golnor the ape -- Spectres in the dark -- House -- Untitled fragment -- Notes on the original Howard texts.
ISBN
9780345490209 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008028474