The Horror Stories Of Robert E. Howard – Shipping 11/05/08

I have an old paperback copy of Robert E. Howard’s Cthulhu Mythos stories and I’ve pretty much just about worn it out. It is my favorite horror collection (Stephen King does come a close second) and I will pull it out a couple of times a year and immerse myself in its shear gut-wrenching terror.

Shipping this Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 is Howard’s horror stories published by Del Rey. I can’t wait for this one. I’ve read some really creepy horror stories by the likes of Stephen King, Graham Masterton, Robert McCammon, and others, but Robert E. Howard gives you a non-stop, look over your shoulder, creepy, gut-wrenching ride that I’ve yet to see repeated.

Here are Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their 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.
The collection includes Howard’s masterpiece “Pigeons from Hell,” which Stephen King calls “one of the finest horror stories of [the twentieth] century,” a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation–and into the maw of its fatal secret. In “Black Canaan” even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers–and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare “Worms of the Earth” and “The Cairn on the Headland,” Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the world’s great masters of the macabre.

560 Pages
Softcover