Solomon Kane

[McTalbayne]

Has anyone read the Solomon Kane books, by Robert E. Howard? They look very interesting, and id love to read them. However, its proving very difficult to actually find them anywhere. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks!

[krunky]

Kane

Yes, the stories are great. You should read them.

I'd recommend:
1) a library (including loaning it from a different branch)
2) buying it via amazon.com - search: "Solomon Kane (The Robert E. Howard Library, Volume III)" There are several used for around $17 but it looks like an all in one edition so that may be quite nice actually.
3) used bookstores
4) the usual second-hand stores online
5) There's even this fine edition: http://www.solomonkane.com/stosk_order.html for $150 plus.

Always try google, or another search engine, first. You can likely find reviews and several new/used places to buy almost any book. Amazon is good because of the average reader reviews.

- Krunky

[McTalbayne]

Yeah, i saw that one on Amazon used. I wasnt sure if it was an all in one or not though. Thats what im looking for. That 160 dollar one is nice but i dont have that kinda money, hehe. Thanks for the info!

[VonWeiner]

BAEN put all the other Howard stuff out in the mid-nineties I believe. I got 'em all.

They are really good - Kull, Cormac Mac Art, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, Black Vulmea. Ah, Howard was a good writer, such a shame.

[Michael Moorcock]

I, too, was tempted by the expensive Solomon Kane volume, but I have a first edition paperback which I treasure. Sadly, I got rid of all my Gnome Press first edition Conans years ago. I'm still pleased I had the sense to hold on to those early Fafhrd/Gray Mousers I still have. The new reissues of the Howard books, done as they originally appeared, without any of the awful sequels by other hands, look very nice too. I would also recommend the editions available from Amazon uk in the Fantasy Masterworks series -- a two volume set of Howard's Conan stories.
This is the same series which did my original Elric stories in order of appearance and is a tremendously good series, including E.R.Eddison and other classics, and more modern writers such as Wolfe and Vance.
You can check the whole series out via Amazon.uk -- readers have made it their business to list the individual titles in the series.

[McTalbayne]

Cool beans. Thanks mike!

[Anonymous]

Yeah, the Fanatsy Masterworks is where I get most of my moorcock's. in England it's one of the only ways of ensuring you'll find a copy. The Hawkmoon omnibus is especially good. IUt has a brilliant cover. The Corum one is okay, though I thought the Elric cover was average, I didn't like the battle shorts he had on. Slightly too effeminate!

[Grey Mouser]

Ahh, Solomon Kane, one of Howard's best. I borrowed them from a friend a long time ago and, yes, sadly had to return them. This particular friend used to find great Howard stuff with enviable ease. I would spend weeks hunting for Howard not finding a bean, and he would stroll up having just found, say, Kull and Kane lying idly in a 2nd hand bookshop by sheer chance.

$150 seems a bit steep.

Has anyone read any of Howard's historical stories that he used to write for Magic Carpet and Oriental Adventures? There's a good selection in a book that was published as Sowers of the Thunder. Fantastic for Howard fans.

[krunky]

I just came across this while browsing:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...45461509&itm=6

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
Robert E. Howard
$14.35

Product Details:
ISBN: 0345461509
Format: Paperback, 432pp
Pub. Date: June 29, 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

The cover notes "fully illustrated throughout." And if the cover is anything to go by it's going to be illos. by Gary Gianni (which means it will have a kind of Roy Krenkel feel to it.)

See also:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...roduct-details

Amazon has a preorder price of $11.17 and has Del Rey as the publisher.

If you have held off until now, might as well hold off a little longer. This looks to be a nice edition in paperback. Too bad they didn't go for the more reasonably priced hardcover. The previous $160-180 for the Gianni illos. ed. hardcover was a bit steep considering you could have probably have bought the whole White Wolf Moorcock hardcover editions used for around that same price.

[Locke421]

Wait.. so is the The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
the WHOLE series.. in other words.. if someone has not read any of his works yet should they just get this and be all set?

[RCraigRobinson]

I've got most of the original Kane stories in two books and they run at about 140 pages each. Savage Tales coming out later this month is listed as 432 pages. So I'd wager there's a pretty good chance that it will contain all of Howard's Purtian gunslinger; la dأ©tente de Dieu.

[ghost]

Wait.. so is the The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
the WHOLE series.. in other words.. if someone has not read any of his works yet should they just get this and be all set?

As far as I know the answer is yes. There are not many Solomon Kane stories and most are short. Note, it is not a series but a collection of stories.

As for Solomon Kane, great character. I recommend the stories.

[Brian]

As far as I know the answer is yes.

I believe so as well. I have this hardcover edition, and it appears to be comprehensive... although I haven't actually researched it for confirmation.

[Octo Seven]

I bought a cheap 'Wordsworth Horror Classics' paperback containing all the Soloman Kane stoies for about 2 pounds brand new a few years ago, great character. You can also find them all at an affordable price in the Gollancz hardcover anthology 'Conan's Brethren , a companion to the Complete Chronicles of Conan' .