Skull-Face
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Author | Robert E. Howard |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Adventure |
Published in | Weird Tales |
Publication type | Pulp magazine |
Publication date | Oct–Dec 1929 |
Text | Skull-Face at Wikisource |
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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.[1] The story stars a character called Stephen Costigan[2] 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 Asian 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 meant to end White/Western world domination with the help of Asian/semite/African peoples and to re-instate surviving Atlanteans (said to lie dormant in submerged sarcophagi) as the new ruling elite.
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- Skull-Face at Faded Page (Canada)
- 1929 short stories
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- Works originally published in Weird Tales
- Atlantis in fiction
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