Robert E. Howard 42 min read

In moonlit, menacing woods, a long-striding wanderer with a slim rapier comes upon death, the first appearance of Solomon Kane, dour Puritan avenger, sworn to hunt a killer across the world.

Robert E. Howard's 1928 story introduces his grim hero Solomon Kane in a sweeping tale of vengeance from Europe to Africa. Vivid, mythic, superbly told. Read it for the debut of one of pulp's great heroes, a relentless quest for justice that helped define sword-and-sorcery.

In its time

Published in 1928, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

42 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Hugh Rankin