Skull-Face Omnibus Volume 2: The Valley of the Worm and Others

Skull-Face Omnibus #2

by Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft (Contributor), August Derleth (Foreword)

Robert E. Howard - creator of some of the greatest worlds of heroic fantasy and nightmare horror ever conceived by the mind of man

H.P. Lovecraft described Howard as a master of description of vast megalithic cities of the elder world, around whose dark towers and labyrinthine nether vaults lingers an aura of pre-human fear and necromancy which no other writer could duplicate.

In the three volumes of Skull-Face Omnibus published by Panther Books you will find a nerve-tautening gallery of tales of superhuman savagery and supernatural evil, Journey back into long-lost eons of time and across frontiers of the occult with one of the greatest masters of the century, Robert E. Howard.

A classic collection of tales from the Golden Age of fantasy and horror

Cover illustration: Chris Achilleos

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Horror, Sword and Sorcery

236 pages, Paperback

First published July 8, 1976

About the author

Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."

He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.

—Wikipedia

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Reviews

[Little Timmy]

Robert E. Howard is my all time favorite writer, but for many years much of his work was heavily edited. This is another of the heavily edited collections of Robert E. Howard's stories. I am a purist when it comes to a writers works. I know some of these stories are no longer PC but they should be read as Howard wrote them and understood that he wrote in another time period. Don't read this book unless you just can't find any others of Howard's unedited books to read. Message me if you need a list of what is good from this awesome fantasy and action writer.

[Edgar]

Howard was briefly-living proof of how horror doesn't only work by showing blurry silhouettes and shadows, or keeping the horror hidden for five-hundred pages. He used to waste strength and monsters and violence and every bad-ass adjective from page one. The result is powerful and colorful and fun.

Robert E. Howard: pissing on your dark thrillers since 1925.

[Christopher]

I found this a stronger, more enjoyable collection than Vol 1 of the Skull-Face omnibus. Introduced to Solomon Kane and Bran Mak Morn.
Just great blood-and-thunder storytelling. The cover art from Panther in this series, however, is lousy compared to their Clark Ashton Smith reprints.

[Robert Hunter]

My first Howard read and he delivered.