Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A late 16th/early 17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms. His adventures, published mostly in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, often take him from Europe to the jungles of Africa and back. Howard described him as a sombre and gloomy man of pale face and cold eyes, all of it shadowed by a slouch hat. Stories[edit] Most of the Solomon Kane stories were first published in Weird Tales. "Red Shadows"[edit] Weird Tales (August 1928) featuring "Red Shadows", the first Solomon Kane story First published in Weird Tales, August 1928, alternatively titled "Solomon Kane". "Skulls in the Stars"[edit] First published in Weird Tales, January 1929. "Rattle of Bones"[edit] First published in Weird Tales, June 1929. "The Moon of Skulls"[edit] First published in Weird Tales, Part 1, June 1930; Part 2, July 1930. [edit]
The Black Company
Cover of the first novel in the series, "The Black Company". The Black Company is a series of fantasy novels by author Glen Cook. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately five hundred year history. Novels[edit] Main chronology[edit] The Books of the North[edit] The Books of the South [edit] The Books of the Glittering Stone[edit] Bleak Seasons (Main Annalist: Murgen) —April 1996She Is the Darkness (Murgen) —September 1997Water Sleeps (Sleepy) —March 1999Soldiers Live (Croaker: the duty is passed off to Shukrat and Arkana of the Voroshk in the last chapter, implying thenceforth they will share the duty of Annalist) —July 2000 Spin-offs[edit] The Silver Spike (Case) —September 1989 Omnibus Editions[edit] Science Fiction Book Club hardcover omnibus editions[edit] Tor Fiction softcover omnibus editions[edit] Short stories[edit] To be released[edit] Plot summary[edit] [edit]
Glen Cook
Glen Cook (born July 9, 1944) is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his fantasy series, The Black Company. Cook currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri. Biography[edit] Glen Cook's love of writing began in grade school, and in high school he wrote the occasional article for his school's newspaper. It was during this time that Cook wrote his first novel of The Black Company, a gritty fantasy series that follows an elite mercenary unit through several decades of their history. Cook is currently retired from his job at GM, living with his wife, Carol, and children (Justin, Chris, and Mike) in St. Published works[edit] The Black Company[edit] An epic fantasy series about a band of mercenaries known as The Black Company. Garrett P.I. In a combination fantasy and mystery series, Garrett is a freelance private investigator in a world where magic works all too well, and where humans co-exist uneasily with numerous other intelligent species and halfbreeds.
Imaro (novel)
Imaro is a sword and sorcery novel written by Charles R. Saunders, and published by DAW Books in 1981. It may have been one of the first forays into the sword and sorcery genre by a black author.[citation needed] The novel is a collection of six short stories ("Mawanzo", "Turkhana Knives", "The Place of Stones", "Slaves of the Giant Kings", "Horror in the Black Hills", and "The City of Madness") which were originally published in Dark Fantasy, a fanzine published by Canadian comic book artist Gene Day during the 1970s. Imaro was the first book in a proposed series of novels about the eponymous hero set in the fantasy world of Nyumbani, but a lawsuit by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate over a poorly chosen cover quote (The Epic Novel of a Black Tarzan) caused a one-month delay in shipping as the books had to be reprinted which led to poor sales.[1] Saunders wrote and had published two more books in the series, The Quest for Cush in 1984 and The Trail of Bohu in 1985.[1]
The Scrolls of Lankhmar: Fritz Leiber Wiki and Message Board
Welcome to the Scrolls of Lankhmar. This is a community project to do two things. Create and provide a wiki about Fritz Leiber and his writings, and to finish the RPG Guide to Nehwon which is a knowledge base for all role-players playing or running a Nehwon-based role-playing game. Add your knowledge! Have you read any Fritz Leiber stories? Are you well-versed in any of his works? Fritz Leiber Fritz Leiber was born in 1910 and died in 1992. Best Known Leiber's best known works include his Sword & Sorcery1) series about those two infamous scoundrels, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, who not only blazed a trail in S&S parallel to Conan since 1939, but whose exploits were very influential in the early development of Dungeons & Dragons. In Science Fiction his Change War series is known for its originality in time travel fiction, and includes the Hugo winning short novel, The Big Time. It is in the field of horror that Leiber caused the greatest shift in writing. Wiki Contents Discussion Forum
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Swords and Deviltry, the first short story collection exclusively featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by American author Fritz Leiber. They are the protagonists of what are probably Leiber's best-known stories. One of his motives in writing them was to have a couple of fantasy heroes closer to true human nature than the likes of Howard's Conan the Barbarian or Burroughs's Tarzan.[1] Fafhrd is a tall (seven feet) northern barbarian, very strong and usually wielding a two-hand sword, which he can hold even one-handed; Mouser is a small (not much more than five feet) mercurial thief, truly gifted and deadly at fencing and dueling, using his sword in one hand and a long dagger in the other; once known as Mouse and a former wizard's apprentice. The characters were loosely modeled upon Leiber himself and his friend Harry Otto Fischer. Setting[edit] Publication history[edit] Omnibus editions[edit]
Conan the Barbarian (2011
Conan the Destroyer (1984
Conan the Barbarian (1982
Kull the Conqueror (1997
Kull of Atlantis
Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by American writer Robert E. Howard, also creator of Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. The character was more introspective than the subsequent Conan, whose first appearance was in a re-write of a rejected Kull story. His first published appearance was "The Shadow Kingdom" in Weird Tales (August, 1929). Kull was portrayed in the 1997 movie Kull the Conqueror by actor Kevin Sorbo. Fictional character biography[edit] Life in Atlantis[edit] Kull was born into a tribe settled in the Tiger Valley of Atlantis. Slave, pirate, outlaw and gladiator[edit] Kull attempted to reach Thuria but was instead captured by the Lemurian Pirates. Soldier and king[edit] The series continued with Kull finding that gaining the crown was easier than securing it. The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune finds Kull reaching his middle-forties and becoming progressively more introspective. Supporting characters[edit] Stories[edit] Style[edit]
