Kull

Exile of Atlantis

De: Robert E. Howard

Narrado por: Todd McLaren

In a meteoric career that spanned a mere 12 years, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction's most enduring heroes. Yet while Conan the Cimmerian is indisputably Howard's greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the brooding intellect of a philosopher, that Howard began to develop the distinctive themes and the richly evocative blend of history and mythology that would distinguish his later tales of the Hyborian Age. Much more than simply the prototype for Conan, Kull is a fascinating character in his own right: an exile from fabled Atlantis who wins the crown of Valusia, only to find it as much a burden as a prize.

This groundbreaking collection brings together all of Howard's stories featuring Kull: "Exile of Atlantis," "The Shadow Kingdom," "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune," "The Cat and the Skull," "The Screaming Skull of Silence," "The Striking of the Gong," "The Altar and the Scorpion," "The Curse of the Golden Skull," "By This Axe I Rule!" "Swords of the Purple Kingdom," "The King and the Oak," and "Kings of the Night."

©2009 Robert E. Howard (P)2010 Tantor

The Beginnings of Modern Fantasy

Along with Lord Dunsany, Edgar Rice Burroughs and L. Frank Baum, the beginning of modern fantasy. Twentieth century classic

Not Conan, Not even close

Kull is clearly the minor leagues, where Howard developed his skills about character and background and pacing. Its interesting, but unfullfilling. A few of the stories in this selection seem like filler to make it more complete and they should have been left out entirely.

Histori fiction

Very NOT PC. So a bit of a guilty pleasure...so best in private? Or not.

Loved it!

Loved it. Reads like the Conan stories. Great tales of high fantastic adventure, magic and murder.

EPIC!!!

WELL DONE, HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTION. EXCELLENT NARRATION. OLD BUT DREAMLIKE QUALITY AND VIBE TO THE STORIES.