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  1. The Secret of Kralitz
    Henry Kuttner
    0 followers2.9k wordsCompleted

    On the night Franz, twenty-first Baron Kralitz, has dreaded for years, two silent figures in black wake him and lead him down a stairway he never knew existed beneath his castle.…

  2. The Hills of the Dead
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers7.4k wordsCompleted

    Solomon Kane is sick of the jungle, but before he leaves, his blood-brother N'Longa, voodoo man of the Slave Coast, presses a carved staff of black wood into his hands. Kane carri…

  3. Skulls in the Stars
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers3.9k wordsCompleted

    There are two roads to Torkertown, and the villagers beg Solomon Kane to take the long one through the swamps. The short road crosses a bare upland moor, and for a year no one who…

  4. Red Shadows
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    In a moonlit valley Solomon Kane finds a dying girl, and with her last breath she names the man who killed her: Le Loup, the Wolf. Kane is a gaunt English Puritan with a rapier, a…

  5. The Fire of Asshurbanipal
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers9.1k wordsCompleted

    Steve Clarney and Yar Ali are down to their last bullets in a desert sand-pit, with Bedouin riders circling and their water nearly gone, all for the sake of a legend. The American…

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  1. Skulls in the Stars
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers3.9k wordsCompleted

    There are two roads to Torkertown, and the villagers beg Solomon Kane to take the long one through the swamps. The short road crosses a bare upland moor, and for a year no one who…

  2. Red Shadows
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    In a moonlit valley Solomon Kane finds a dying girl, and with her last breath she names the man who killed her: Le Loup, the Wolf. Kane is a gaunt English Puritan with a rapier, a…

  3. The Hills of the Dead
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers7.4k wordsCompleted

    Solomon Kane is sick of the jungle, but before he leaves, his blood-brother N'Longa, voodoo man of the Slave Coast, presses a carved staff of black wood into his hands. Kane carri…

  4. The Secret of Kralitz
    Henry Kuttner
    0 followers2.9k wordsCompleted

    On the night Franz, twenty-first Baron Kralitz, has dreaded for years, two silent figures in black wake him and lead him down a stairway he never knew existed beneath his castle.…

  5. The Moon of Skulls
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers20k wordsCompleted

    For years Solomon Kane has followed the trail of Marylin Taferal, an English girl kidnapped as a child and sold to slavers, and now it ends at a black crag in the African jungle.…

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  1. The Secret of Kralitz
    Henry Kuttner
    0 followers2.9k wordsCompleted

    On the night Franz, twenty-first Baron Kralitz, has dreaded for years, two silent figures in black wake him and lead him down a stairway he never knew existed beneath his castle.…

  2. The Beast-Jewel of Mars
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    Burk Winters was a starship captain until the girl he meant to marry flew out over the Martian desert and never came back. Now he is a shaking wreck with one reason left to return…

  3. Skulls in the Stars
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers3.9k wordsCompleted

    There are two roads to Torkertown, and the villagers beg Solomon Kane to take the long one through the swamps. The short road crosses a bare upland moor, and for a year no one who…

  4. Red Shadows
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    In a moonlit valley Solomon Kane finds a dying girl, and with her last breath she names the man who killed her: Le Loup, the Wolf. Kane is a gaunt English Puritan with a rapier, a…

  5. Rattle of Bones
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers2.5k wordsCompleted

    Solomon Kane does not like the look of the Cleft Skull, a lonely tavern deep in the Black Forest with barred windows, no other guests and a host with small red eyes. He shares the…

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  1. The Moon of Skulls
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers20k wordsCompleted

    For years Solomon Kane has followed the trail of Marylin Taferal, an English girl kidnapped as a child and sold to slavers, and now it ends at a black crag in the African jungle.…

  2. The Secret of Kralitz
    Henry Kuttner
    0 followers2.9k wordsCompleted

    On the night Franz, twenty-first Baron Kralitz, has dreaded for years, two silent figures in black wake him and lead him down a stairway he never knew existed beneath his castle.…

  3. Rattle of Bones
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers2.5k wordsCompleted

    Solomon Kane does not like the look of the Cleft Skull, a lonely tavern deep in the Black Forest with barred windows, no other guests and a host with small red eyes. He shares the…

  4. The Beast-Jewel of Mars
    Leigh Brackett
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    Burk Winters was a starship captain until the girl he meant to marry flew out over the Martian desert and never came back. Now he is a shaking wreck with one reason left to return…

  5. Red Shadows
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    In a moonlit valley Solomon Kane finds a dying girl, and with her last breath she names the man who killed her: Le Loup, the Wolf. Kane is a gaunt English Puritan with a rapier, a…

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  1. The Moon of Skulls
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers20k wordsCompleted

    For years Solomon Kane has followed the trail of Marylin Taferal, an English girl kidnapped as a child and sold to slavers, and now it ends at a black crag in the African jungle.…

  2. Skulls in the Stars
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers3.9k wordsCompleted

    There are two roads to Torkertown, and the villagers beg Solomon Kane to take the long one through the swamps. The short road crosses a bare upland moor, and for a year no one who…

  3. The Hills of the Dead
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers7.4k wordsCompleted

    Solomon Kane is sick of the jungle, but before he leaves, his blood-brother N'Longa, voodoo man of the Slave Coast, presses a carved staff of black wood into his hands. Kane carri…

  4. The Fire of Asshurbanipal
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers9.1k wordsCompleted

    Steve Clarney and Yar Ali are down to their last bullets in a desert sand-pit, with Bedouin riders circling and their water nearly gone, all for the sake of a legend. The American…

  5. Second Variety
    Philip K. Dick
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    The claws were built to win the war, and they may have done it too well. Six years after the bombs, Earth's surface is ash, and the battlefield belongs to self-repairing killing m…

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  1. Second Variety
    Philip K. Dick
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    The claws were built to win the war, and they may have done it too well. Six years after the bombs, Earth's surface is ash, and the battlefield belongs to self-repairing killing m…

  2. The Hills of the Dead
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers7.4k wordsCompleted

    Solomon Kane is sick of the jungle, but before he leaves, his blood-brother N'Longa, voodoo man of the Slave Coast, presses a carved staff of black wood into his hands. Kane carri…

  3. Red Shadows
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    In a moonlit valley Solomon Kane finds a dying girl, and with her last breath she names the man who killed her: Le Loup, the Wolf. Kane is a gaunt English Puritan with a rapier, a…

  4. The Fire of Asshurbanipal
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers9.1k wordsCompleted

    Steve Clarney and Yar Ali are down to their last bullets in a desert sand-pit, with Bedouin riders circling and their water nearly gone, all for the sake of a legend. The American…

  5. The Moon of Skulls
    Robert E. Howard
    0 followers20k wordsCompleted

    For years Solomon Kane has followed the trail of Marylin Taferal, an English girl kidnapped as a child and sold to slavers, and now it ends at a black crag in the African jungle.…

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  1. The Beast-Jewel of Mars
    Chapter 5
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    Burk Winters was a starship captain until the girl he meant to marry flew out over the Martian desert and never came back. Now he is a shaking wreck with one reason left to return…

  2. Skulls in the Stars
    Chapter 2
    0 followers3.9k wordsCompleted

    There are two roads to Torkertown, and the villagers beg Solomon Kane to take the long one through the swamps. The short road crosses a bare upland moor, and for a year no one who…

  3. Red Shadows
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    In a moonlit valley Solomon Kane finds a dying girl, and with her last breath she names the man who killed her: Le Loup, the Wolf. Kane is a gaunt English Puritan with a rapier, a…

  4. The Secret of Kralitz
    0 followers2.9k wordsCompleted

    On the night Franz, twenty-first Baron Kralitz, has dreaded for years, two silent figures in black wake him and lead him down a stairway he never knew existed beneath his castle.…

  5. Rattle of Bones
    0 followers2.5k wordsCompleted

    Solomon Kane does not like the look of the Cleft Skull, a lonely tavern deep in the Black Forest with barred windows, no other guests and a host with small red eyes. He shares the…

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  1. The Beast-Jewel of Mars
    Leigh BrackettStarted
    0 followers15k wordsCompleted

    Burk Winters was a starship captain until the girl he meant to marry flew out over the Martian desert and never came back. Now he is a shaking wreck with one reason left to return…

  2. Skulls in the Stars
    Robert E. HowardStarted
    0 followers3.9k wordsCompleted

    There are two roads to Torkertown, and the villagers beg Solomon Kane to take the long one through the swamps. The short road crosses a bare upland moor, and for a year no one who…

  3. Red Shadows
    Robert E. HowardStarted
    0 followers11k wordsCompleted

    In a moonlit valley Solomon Kane finds a dying girl, and with her last breath she names the man who killed her: Le Loup, the Wolf. Kane is a gaunt English Puritan with a rapier, a…

  4. The Secret of Kralitz
    Henry KuttnerStarted
    0 followers2.9k wordsCompleted

    On the night Franz, twenty-first Baron Kralitz, has dreaded for years, two silent figures in black wake him and lead him down a stairway he never knew existed beneath his castle.…

  5. Rattle of Bones
    Robert E. HowardStarted
    0 followers2.5k wordsCompleted

    Solomon Kane does not like the look of the Cleft Skull, a lonely tavern deep in the Black Forest with barred windows, no other guests and a host with small red eyes. He shares the…