Bran Mak Morn

Zusatztext “Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.” –STEPHEN KING “Howard was a true storyteller–one of the first! and certainly among the best! you’ll find in heroic fantasy. If you’ve never read him before! you’re in for a real treat.” –CHARLES DE LINT! award-winning author of Forests of the Heart Informationen zum Autor Robert E. Howard is one of the most prolific short story writers in American history, and has created such beloved characters as Conan the Barbarian, Kull of Atlantis, Soloman Kane, Bran Mak Morn, El Borak, and Dark Agnès de Chastillon. He tragically passed away in 1936. Klappentext From Robert E. Howard's fertile imagination sprang some of fiction's greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard's characters, none embodied his creator's brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race. In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism . . . all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race. Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, this collection gathers together all of Howard's published stories and poems featuring Bran Mak Morn-including the eerie masterpiece "Worms of the Earth" and "Kings of the Night," in which sorcery summons Kull the conqueror from out of the depths of time to stand with Bran against the Roman invaders. Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments, reproductions of manuscripts bearing Howard's handwritten revisions, and much, much more. Special Bonus: a newly discovered adventure by Howard, presented here for the very first time.Chapter 1 Men of the Shadows From the dim red dawn of Creation From the fogs of timeless Time Came we, the first great nation, First on the upward climb. Savage, untaught, unknowing, Groping through primitive night, Yet faintly catching the glowing, The hint of the coming Light. Ranging o’er lands untraveled, Sailing o’er seas unknown Mazed by world-puzzles unraveled, Building our land-marks of stone. Vaguely grasping at glory, Gazing beyond our ken Mutely the ages’ story Rearing on plain and fen. See, how the Lost Fire smolders, We are one with the eons’ must. Nations have trod our shoulders, Trampling us into the dust. We, the first of the races, Linking the Old and New – Look, where the sea-cloud spaces Mingle with ocean-blue. So we have mingled with ages, And the world-wind our ashes stirs, Vanished are we from Time’s pages, Our memory? Wind in the firs. Stonehenge of long-gone glory Sombre and lone in the night, Murmur the age-old story How we kindled the first of the Light. Speak night-winds, of man’s creation, Whisper o’er crag and fen, The tale of the first great nation, The last of the Stone Age men. Sword met sword with clash and slither. “Ailla! A-a-ailla!” rising on a steep pitch of sound from a hundred savage throats. On all sides they swarmed upon us, a hundred to thirty. Back to back we stood, shields lapped, blades at guard. Those blades were red, but corselets and helmets, too, were red. One advantage we possessed, we were armored and our foes were not. Yet they flung themselves naked to the fray with as fierce a valor as if they were clad in steel. Then for a moment they drew off and stood at a distance, gasping curses, blood from sword thrusts making strange patterns on their woad painted skins. Thirty men! Thirty, the remnant of the troop of five hundred that had marched so arrogantly from Hadrian’s Wall. Zeus, what ...

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• Autori: Robert Howard, Robert E. Howard
• Editore: Del Rey
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2005
• EAN: 9780345461544
• ISBN: 978-0-345-46154-4
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy