Robert E. Howard
169 кн.
Some day, maybe, when I'm old and gray in the whiskers, I'll have sense enough not to stop when I'm riding by Uncle Shadrach Polk's cabin, and Aunt Tascosa Polk hollers at me. Take the last time, for instance. I ought to of spurred Cap'n Kidd into a high run when she stuck her head out'n the winder and yelled: «Breckinridge! Oh, Breckinridddgggge!»…
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Breckenridge is volunteered to escort a hapless bunch of Kansas immigrants to Arizona. What could possibly go wrong?
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Shadows Kingdoms is the first volume of The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, presenting all of Howard's Work from the classic magazine Weird Tales, meticulously restored to its original texts. This volume begins with «Spear and Fang,» Howard's first professional fiction sale, and concludes with «Red Thunder,» a gripping sword & sorcery tale. Series characters present in this volume include King Kull and Solomon Kane.
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And then some more fellers butted in and everybody started cussing and hollering till it nigh deefened me. Someone else reaches for a gun and I seen that as soon as one feller shoots another there is bound to be trouble so I started to gentle the first feller by hitting him over the head. The next thing I know someone hollers at me, «You big hyener!», and tries to ruint me with a knife. Purty soon there is hitting and shooting all over the town. High Horse is sure on a rampage.
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This business begun with Uncle Garfield Elkins coming up from Texas to visit us. Between Grizzly Run and Chawed Ear the stage got held up by some masked bandits, and Uncle Garfield, never being able to forget that he was a gun-fighting fool thirty or forty years ago, pulled his old cap-and-ball instead of putting up his hands like he was advised to. For some reason, instead of blowing out his light, they merely busted him over the head with a .45 barrel, and when he come to he was rattling on...
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I been accused of prejudice agen the town of Red Cougar, on account of my habit of avoiding it if I have to ride fifty miles outen my way to keep from going through there. I denies the slander. It ain't no more prejudiced for me to ride around Red Cougar than it is for a lobo to keep his paw out of a jump-trap. My experiences in that there lair of iniquity is painful to recall. I was a stranger and took in. I was a sheep for the fleecing, and if some of the fleecers got their fingers...
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Pap dug the nineteenth buckshot out of my shoulder and said, «Pigs is more disturbin' to the peace of a community than scandal, divorce, and corn licker put together. And,» says pap, pausing to strop his bowie on my scalp where the hair was all burnt off, «when the pig is a razorback hawg, and is mixed up with a lady schoolteacher, a English tenderfoot, and a passle of bloodthirsty relatives, the result is appallin' for a peaceable man to behold. Hold still till John gits yore ear...
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Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned horror and dark fantasy authors. Included are: <P> DAGON, by H.P. Lovecraft<BR> THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, by Robert E. Howard<BR> MOTHER OF PEARL, by Fitz-James O'Brien<BR> THE WALKING DEAD, by E. Hoffmann Price<BR> SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SHOUT ABOUT IT, by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> THE STORY OF MING-Y, by Lafcadio Hearn<BR> BY MOONLIGHT, by John Gregory...
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Hours of great reading await, with Western tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors, including Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro), Robert E. Howard (famous for Conan the Barbarian), and Clarence E. Mulford (creator of Hopalong Cassidy), and many more! <P> HIS KIND OF HELLION, by Johnston McCulley<BR> TEXAS JOHN ALDEN, by Robert E. Howard<BR> THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT, by Bret Harte<BR> THIEVES OF BLACK ROCK DESERT, by Bill...
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Moon of Skulls collects Robert E. Howard's fiction and poetry published in Weird Tales Magazine from October 1929 to November 1930, plus one from Oriental Stories. These works represent literary stepping-stones to Howard's infamous Cthulhu mythos stories and his most famous character of all – Conan the Cimmerian – and ably demonstrate that each of Howard's stories improved and added to his formidable skills as a master of fantasy and adventure. Continuing the collection of...
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The definitive 10-volume set of Robert E. Howard's weird fiction and poetry (with all texts meticulously restored to the original versions as published in Weird Tales and other magazines) continues with volume 6, GARDENS OF FEAR! This collection of classic Howard begins with the Conan story «Queen of the Black Coast,» and also includes «The Haunter of the Ring,» «The Garden of Fear,» «The Devil in Iron,» «The Voices Waken Memory,» «The People of the Black Circle,» and «A Witch Shall Be...
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The definitive 10-volume set of Robert E. Howard's weird fiction and poetry (with all texts meticulously restored to the original versions as published in Weird Tales and other magazines) continues with volume 9! This collection of classic Howard fiction and poetry begins with the story «Black Canaan» and includes «Always Comes Evening,» «Red Nails,» «Solomon Kane’s Homecoming,» «Black Hound of Death,» «The Fire of Asshurbanipal,» «Dig Me No Grave,» «The Soul-Eater,» «The Dream and the...
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