From Publishers WeeklyKnown primarily for his iconic character, Conan, Howard's other writings delivered just as much action and adventure. This anthology of nine tales reveals some of his other earlier and lesser-known characters including Solomon Kane and King Kull, who feature in several pieces each. Originally published in Weird Tales, these stories become a nostalgic revival from the days of pulp magazines in this audio collection. Though Howard's writing is plagued with melodrama and Eurocentrism, it still proves entertaining and exciting. While some supporting characters are one-dimensional, Kane and Kull gain more depth with each passing story. Utilizing different narrators for each story, Audio Realms brings quality and engaging talent to Howard's words. Each narrator fits acutely well with the story he reads. Each maintains a strong, determined masculine voice, which embodies the predominantly male point of view throughout Howard's works. This kind of adventure and fantasy entails harsh and gritty worlds with grim characters, which these narrators capture well with their stern and gravelly voices. A Wildside paperback.(May) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.About the AuthorRobert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is well known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. how many cuboids are needed to make a cube Robert E. Howard's Weird Works Volume 1: Shadow Kingdoms (v. 1)
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Howard's stories in a quality formatBy Robert PattonThe weird works series collects Howard's stories in a nice set of hardback books, putting them in order of publication. I'm assuming readers looking at this are familiar with Robert Howard's works, and are just seeing this series as a nice way to have all of them in one set rather then spread across many other collections of magazines and decayed paperbacks. With that in mind, the books are well done. The paper is nice, the binding seems fine. There are infrequent typos in the text, perhaps 2-3 per book.If you are not familiar with these stories - they are excellent action stories of fantasy around older civilizations or the remnants of those civilizations as they hide in the world today.Some people may question the price of the books given that they are not very long, but I think it is well worth it. Trying to punish the publisher by not buying them on principle (as one reviewer suggests) is ridiculous. That mindset leads to not having these old stories republished at all, we are going to pay a premium for this sort of book because the market is small.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Robert E. Howard EssentialBy THX1138Robert E. Howard was a multi-genre dynamo, but his essential contribution to writing was through Weird Tales. This set of books gives you every story and poem for that pulp and gives you the opportunity to follow from his very first story Spear and Fang to his last story before his tragic death his progression in the macabre as well as the genre he created, Sword and Sorcery.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. if you like ss or hf don't miss thisBy jeff fraserif you like ss or hf don't miss this. if you're looking for something new and haven't tried robert howard this is a good place to start