From an Amazon.com page on The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
Editorial Reviews
“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly
gives off sparks.”
—STEPHEN KING
“I adore these books. Howard had a gritty, vibrant style—broadsword
writing that cut its way to the heart, with heroes who are truly larger
than life. I heartily recommend them to anyone who loves fantasy.”
—DAVID GEMMELL
Author of Legend and White Wolf
“The voice of Robert E. Howard still resonates after decades
with readers— equal parts ringing steel, thunderous horse hooves, and
spattered blood.
Far from being a stereotype, his creation of Conan is the
high heroic adventurer. His raw muscle and sinews, boiling temper, and
lusty laughs are the gauge by which all modern heroes must be measured.”
—ERIC NYLUND, Author of
Halo: The Fall of Reach and Signal to Noise
“That teller of marvelous tales, Robert Howard, did indeed
create a giant [Conan] in whose shadow other ‘hero tales’ must stand.”
—JOHN JAKES, New York Times bestselling author of the North and South trilogy
“For stark, living fear . . . what other writer is even in the running
with Robert E. Howard?”
—H. P. LOVECRAFT
“Howard wrote pulp adventure stories of every kind, for every market he
could find, but his real love was for supernatural adventure and he
brought a brash, tough element to the epic fantasy which did as much to
change the course of the American school away from precious writing and
static imagery as Hammett, Chandler, and the Black Mask pulp writers
were to change the course of American detective fiction.”
—MICHAEL MOORCOCK
Award winning author of the Elric saga
“In this, I think, the art of Robert E. Howard was hard to surpass:
vigor, speed, vividness. And always there is that furious, galloping
narrative pace.”
—POUL ANDERSON
“Howard honestly believed the basic truth of the stories he was
telling. It’s as if he’d said, ‘This is how life really was lived in
those former savage times!’ ”
—DAVID DRAKE
Author of Grimmer Than Hell and Dogs of
War
“For headlong, nonstop adventure and for vivid, even florid,
scenery, no one even comes close to Howard.”
—HARRY TURTLEDOVE
“HOWARD WAS THE THOMAS WOLFE OF FANTASY.”
—STEPHEN KING
“The stories have a livingness about them [that’s] impossible to fake.
. . . Not one of them is boring—there is always some special touch—and
most, of course, are rousers.”
—GAHAN WILSON
Reviewer and author of I Paint What I See
“The best pulp (fantasy) writer was Robert E. Howard.”
—FRITZ LEIBER
Author of Green Millennium and Farewell to Lankhmar
“Weird, fantastic, but peopled with real men who think and
act as we conceive the thoughts and acts of men. . . . None of the
dummies that pirouette through some stories, using stilted, supposedly
archaic language, and moving in response to the author’s obvious
string-pulling. All of which leads you to believe that I like it.
Correct. I do.”
—E. HOFFMAN PRICE
Author of The Jade Enchantress
“[Behind Howard’s stories] lurks a dark poetry, and the timeless truth
of dreams. That is why these tales have survived. They remain a fitting
heritage of the poet and dreamer who was Robert E. Howard.”
—ROBERT BLOCH
Author of Psycho