Robert E. Howard 10 min read

In Faring town, the brawlers John Kulrek and Lie-lip Canool are feared and admired above all, men who fare farther than any, out on the white tides, until a curse follows them home.

Robert E. Howard's 1928 story is a dark, poetic fantasy-horror tale of the sea and vengeance from beyond. Vivid, atmospheric, superbly told. Read it for early Howard's mastery of mood and menace, a grim seaside tale of two swaggering rovers and the doom that the gray ocean holds for them.

In its time

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

Reading it

10 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).