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Weird Trouble: Skull-Face, The Valley of the Just, The Curse of a Thousand Kisses, The Turquoise Necklace
FOUR THRILLING ADVENTURES - ONE BOOK. CANNON BOOKS PRESENTS: Weird Trouble: Skull-Face, The Valley of the Just, The Curse of a Thousand Kisses, The Turquoise Necklace
From the Creator of CONAN: First serialized in Weird Tales in 1929, Skull-Face is set in London’s seedy Limehouse district, where Steve Costigan is in trouble. Not only is the shell-shocked WWI veteran a hashish addict, but he has inadvertently locked horns with a criminal mastermind determined to crush the Western Way of Life. How can Costigan set things right and save the lovely Zuleika?
From the Creator of FU MANCHU: Three tales from Rohmer’s 1920 collection The Haunting of Low Fennel. Each tale is framed in the exotic atmosphere of early 19th century Burma or Egypt with inclinations toward the supernatural, and unfolds in the margins between luxurious hotels and jungle temples, crowded bazaars, wicked curses, desert sands and murder.
From the Creator of CONAN: First serialized in Weird Tales in 1929, Skull-Face is set in London’s seedy Limehouse district, where Steve Costigan is in trouble. Not only is the shell-shocked WWI veteran a hashish addict, but he has inadvertently locked horns with a criminal mastermind determined to crush the Western Way of Life. How can Costigan set things right and save the lovely Zuleika?
From the Creator of FU MANCHU: Three tales from Rohmer’s 1920 collection The Haunting of Low Fennel. Each tale is framed in the exotic atmosphere of early 19th century Burma or Egypt with inclinations toward the supernatural, and unfolds in the margins between luxurious hotels and jungle temples, crowded bazaars, wicked curses, desert sands and murder.
140 pages, Paperback
Published January 3, 2020
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Robert E. Howard
3,026 books2,677 followersRobert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."
He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
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He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
—Wikipedia
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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