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Norman Saylor, a rising professor of ethnology at small, stuffy Hempnell College, has never snooped in his wife's dressing room before. When he does, he finds little bottles of graveyard dirt labeled with names, and soon charms tucked all over the house. Tans…
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 to Kahora Port. In the Trade City, Shanga is the newest fashionable vice: an ol…
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 walked it by night has come back alive. Late travelers hear terrible laughter o…
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 brace of pistols and an iron sense of justice, and he does not swear oaths. He…
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. His dying father would not name the curse an abbot laid on their house, after th…
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 night's lodging with Gaston l'Armon, a dandified Frenchman who overtook him on…
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 machines that burrow in the rubble and hunt anything warm that isn't wearing a ra…
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 carries it toward a chain of bare, silent hills where vultures gather and something k…
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. Beyond it lies Negari, an ancient stone city ruled by Nakari, a beautiful and pi…
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 wanderer and his big Afghan comrade have followed rumors from Shiraz to the Per…
