num_pages: 159
description: Solomon Kane follows The Hand of Kane and The Moon of Skulls as the third and final volume in the series involving Robert E Howard's first sword and sorcery hero.Here is the first Solomon Kane story to see print: 'Red Shadows', a novelette which originally appeared in the August 1928 issue of Weird Tales magazine. It is a tale of swordplay and sorcery, of sixteenth century France, and of darkest Africa—a typical Howard swashbuckler. 'The Right Hand of Doom' and 'Rattle of Bones' are two short stories of stark horror. 'The Castle of the Devil' is a fragment of which little is know; if Howard ever finished it, then the conclusion is lost somewhere in the years between Howard's death and the present.'Blades of the Brotherhood' is a novelette of straight adventure—of smugglers, pirates, and swordplay in another century. 'The Return of Sir Richard Grenville' is a delicate poetic weird episode, and 'Solomon Kane's Homecoming', which was first published in the semi-professional magazine Fanciful Tales in 1936 a short time after Howard's death, is the final bit, closing out the long career of Solomon Kane in a mystic grandeur that is indeed fitting.
language: English
title: Solomon Kane
titlecomplete: Solomon Kane
characters: Solomon Kane
genres: Pulp, Classics, Adventure, Dark Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Fiction, Short Stories, Horror, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 5493
series: The Robert E. Howard Library, Time-Lost, Solomon Kane, Solomon Kane (Time-Lost Series)
publisher: Centaur Books