Before creating Conan the Barbarian, the incomparable Robert E. Howard introduced readers to another unforgettable hero: the grim Solomon Kane, an English Puritan whose adventures unfold in the 16th century, during the Age of Discovery—a time when the forces of enlightenment and progress coexisted with darkness and superstition.
Across the marshes of England, the shadowy trails of Germany’s Black Forest, and the deep jungles and vast savannas of Africa, Solomon Kane confronts ghosts and the living dead, savage beasts and even more savage tribes, while uncovering terrifying remnants of lost civilizations long forgotten by humanity.
A complex blend of light and darkness, tolerance and prejudice, gentleness and violence, Solomon Kane—the black-clad Englishman—seems driven by a single purpose: to wander the known and unknown world in search of evil, confronting it wherever it may be found.
Solomon Kane reached a wider audience through the feature film of the same name, directed by Michael J. Bassett and starring James Purefoy.
