Robert E. Howard 16 min read

Two roads lead to Torkertown, one over a barren moor, one through the swamp, and a breathless village boy overtakes Solomon Kane to beg him, for God's sake, to take the swamp road.

Robert E. Howard's 1929 story is a grim, atmospheric fantasy-horror tale, an early Solomon Kane adventure. Vivid, eerie, mythic. Read it for the dour Puritan avenger at his best, a lonely moor, a haunting horror, and Kane's iron resolve to face what others flee.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hugh Rankin