The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2 : Random House Worlds : 9780345490193 : 0345490193 : 27 Nov 2007 : ?[Behind Howard's stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams.? ?Robert Bloch ?Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.? ?Stephen King The classic pulp magazines of the early twentieth century are long gone, but their action-packed tales live on through the work of legendary storyteller Robert E. Howard. From his fecund imagination sprang an army of larger-than-life heroes?including the iconic Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn?as well as adventures that would define a genre for generations. Now comes the second volume of this author's breathtaking short fiction, which runs the gamut from sword and sorcery, historical epic, and seafaring pirate adventure to two-fisted crime and intrigue, ghoulish horror, and rip-roaring western. Kull reigns supreme in ?By This Axe I Rule!? and