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Skull-Face Omnibus: Volume 2 – The Valley of the Worm {and others}      Paperback
Writer: Robert E. Howard
Cover by: Christos Achilléos

Skull-Face is a fantasy novella by American writer Robert E. Howard, which appeared as a serial in Weird Tales magazine, beginning in October 1929, and ending in December, 1929. The story stars a character called Stephen Costigan, but this is not Howard’s recurring character, Sailor Steve Costigan. The story is clearly influenced by Sax Rohmer’s opus Fu Manchu, but substitutes the main villain with a resuscitated Atlantean necromancer (similar to Kull’s bit character Thulsa Doom) sitting at the center of a web of crime and intrigue. His plan is meant to end the Western world and to re-instate surviving Atlanteans (said to lie dormant in submerged sarcophagi) as the new ruling elite.

Robert E. Howard is the 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 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.

Skull-Face Omnibus: Volume 2 – The Valley of the Worm {and others} Paperback contains:

Foreword by August Derleth
Which Will Scarcely Understood (poem)
Robert E. Howard: A Memorium by H.P. Lovecraft
The Fire of Asshurbanipal
A Man-Eating Jeopard
Worms of the Earth
Kings of the Night
The Valley of the Worm
Skulls in the Stars
The Rattle of Bones
The Hills of the Dead
Wings in the Night

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First Printing
Publisher: Panther Books
Publication Date: 1976
Format: 236 pages, PB, 7″ x 4.5″
ISBN-10: 0586043748
ISBN-13: 978058604374

Collectible Entertainment note: Paperback is in Good condition.  Nice Reading Copy!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Robert E. Howard and/or Skull-Face collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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