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Robert E. Howards Puritanical Hero
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:19 am
by _Gazelam
About had puppies when I saw this......

Re: Robert E. Howards Puritanical Hero
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:18 am
by _Dr. Shades
Gazelam wrote:About had puppies when I saw this......
Why?
Is this a book being made into a movie?
Re: Robert E. Howards Puritanical Hero
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:00 pm
by _Gazelam
Dr. Shades wrote:Gazelam wrote:About had puppies when I saw this......
Why?
Is this a book being made into a movie?
Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A 17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms. His adventures, published mostly in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, often take him from Europe to the jungles of Africa and back.
Howard describes him as a somber and gloomy man of pale face and cold eyes, all of it shadowed by a slouch hat. He is dressed entirely in black and his weaponry consists of a rapier, a dagger, and a couple of flintlock pistols. During one of his latter adventures his friend N'Longa, a black African shaman, gave him a juju staff that served as a protection against evil, but could easily be wielded as an effective weapon. It is revealed in another story, "The Footfalls Within," that this is the mythical Staff of Solomon, a talisman older than the Earth and unimaginably powerful, much more so than even N'Longa knew. In the same adventure with N'Longa, Kane is seen using a musket as well.
Wiki Article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Kane
Robert E. Howard :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Howard