When he finds the hidden city of Negari, he encounters Nakari, "the vampire queen of Negari".įirst published in Weird Tales, August 1930. Kane goes to Africa on the trail of an English girl named Marylin Taferal, kidnapped from her home and sold to Barbary pirates by her cousin. In Germany Kane meets a traveler named Gaston L'Armon, who seems familiar to Kane, and together they take rooms in the Cleft Skull Tavern.įirst published in Weird Tales, Part 1, June 1930 Part 2, July 1930. He is warned that the moor route is haunted and all travelers who take that road die, so he decides to investigate.įirst published in Weird Tales, June 1929. In England, Kane is on his way to the hamlet of Torkertown, and must choose one of two paths, a route that leads through a moor or one that leads through a swamp. As she dies in his arms, Kane determines to avenge her death, and the trail leads from France to Africa, ending with Kane's first meeting with N'Longa.įirst published in Weird Tales, January 1929. In France, Kane finds a girl attacked by a gang of brigands led by a villain known as le Loup. This was the first Solomon Kane story ever published. Weird Tales (August 1928) featuring "Red Shadows", the first Solomon Kane storyįirst published in Weird Tales, August 1928, alternatively titled "Solomon Kane". The order of publication, however, does not coincide with the order in which the stories were written. Most of the Solomon Kane stories were first published in Weird Tales.
7 Solomon Kane stories by other authors. 2.2 "The Return of Sir Richard Grenville". 1.10.5 Other authors who completed these fragments. Howard, is already a favorite with the readers of this magazine for his stories of Solomon Kane, the dour English Puritan and redresser of wrongs". When Weird Tales published the story " Red Nails", featuring Conan the Barbarian, the editors introduced it as a tale of "a barbarian adventurer named Conan, remarkable for his sheer force of valor and brute strength. In the same adventure with N'Longa, Kane is seen using a musket as well. It is revealed in another story, "The Footfalls Within", that this is the mythical Staff of Solomon, a talisman older than the Earth and unimaginably powerful, much more so than even N'Longa knew. During one of his later adventures his friend N'Longa, an African shaman, gave him a juju staff that served as a protection against evil but could easily be wielded as a weapon. He is dressed entirely in black and his weaponry usually consists of a rapier, a dirk, and a brace of flintlock pistols. Howard described him as a tall, sombre and gloomy man of pale skin, gaunt face and cold eyes, all of it shadowed by a slouch hat. His adventures, published mostly in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, often take him from Europe to the jungles of Africa and back. A late-16th-to-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. Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Solomon KaneĪllies: N'Longa, John Silent Enemies: Le Loup The Fishhawk For the comics, see Solomon Kane (comics).
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