Additionally, there are two essays by Robert E. This book comprises the previously published and unpublished Kull stories and poems.

However, before there was Conan, there was Kull from Atlantis, a mere man who won the crown of Valusia. Howard for his sword & sorcery character Conan. This groundbreaking collection brings together all of Howard's stories featuring Kull: 'Exile of Atlantis,' 'The Shadow Kingdom,' 'The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune,' 'The Cat and the Skull,' 'The Screaming Skull of Silence,' 'The Striking of the Gong,' 'The Altar and the Scorpion,' 'The Curse of the Golden Skull,' 'By This Axe I Rule!' 'Swords of the Purple Kingdom,' 'The King and the Oak,' and 'Kings of the Night.' Read more Much more than simply the prototype for Conan, Kull is a fascinating character in his own right: an exile from fabled Atlantis who wins the crown of Valusia, only to find it as much a burden as a prize. Yet while Conan the Cimmerian is indisputably Howard's greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the brooding intellect of a philosopher, that Howard began to develop the distinctive themes and the richly evocative blend of history and mythology that would distinguish his later tales of the Hyborian Age. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction's most enduring heroes. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E.

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