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050 00 $aPS3515.O842$bA6 2005
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100 1 $aHoward, Robert E.$q(Robert Ervin),$d1906-1936.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018012
245 14 $aThe black stranger and other American tales /$cRobert E. Howard ; edited and with an introduction by Steven Tompkins.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axxii, 351 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe works of Robert E. Howard
505 00 $tThe black stranger -- $tMarchers of Valhalla -- $tThe gods of Bal-Sagoth -- $tNekht Semerkeht -- $tBlack Vulmea's vengeance -- $tThe strange case of Josiah Wilbarger -- $tThe valley of the lost -- $tKelly the conjure-man -- $tBlack Canaan -- $tPigeons from hell -- $tOld Garfield's heart -- $tThe horror from the mound -- $tThe thunder-rider -- $t"The classic tale of the Southwest" -- $tThe grim land.
520 1 $a"Robert E. Howard is celebrated as the founding father of sword-and-sorcery, the creator of Conan of Cimmeria and Kull of Atlantis. The Black Stranger and Other American Tales demonstrates that in some of his most powerful heroic fantasy and horror stories he also explored a New World Order, one more haunted than that which we've seen in textbooks or museum exhibits. In Howard's Gothic America, dominion goes hand in hand with damnation and the present never ceases to writhe in the grip of the past." ""The Black Stranger" spearheads the collection. Located at the extreme edge of Hyborian geography and human ruthlessness, this Conan novella has seldom been available until now. All of the Cimmerian's lethal skills may not be enough inside a stockade that shelters a self-exiled, pirate-plagued count, besieged from without and bedeviled from within. Against the backdrop of a demonically hostile landscape, Howard recreates the worst nightmares of the earliest European invaders of North America." "In the tales that follow, Howard unearths sinister civilizations that have forgotten the mysteries of their origins on American soil tens of thousands of years ago. That soil is a dark and bloody ground, beneath which the monstrous heirs of ancient wrongs and unsuspected wars wait. A Comanche champion and a lone conquistador stumble upon empires carved out of the primordial Southwest by necromancers. Hot hate given cold flesh lurches on zuvembie legs in "Pigeons from Hell" and lurks in the shudder-some swamps of the Deep South in "Black Canaan.""--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHorror tales, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062085
650 0 $aFantasy fiction, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047117
700 1 $aTompkins, Steven.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004030645
800 1 $aHoward, Robert E.$q(Robert Ervin),$d1906-1936.$tWorks.$f2005.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004030646
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004019545.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3515.O842$iA6 2005