Solomon Kane: The Hound of God

Praise for Conan and Robert E. Howard:


Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks. —Stephen King


In Howard’s grim and all too realistic view, the barbarians are always at the gate, and once a culture allows itself to grow soft, decadent or simply neglectful, it will be swept away by the primitive and ruthless. —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post


I read books, and I dreamed of Mars, and the planets in those books, and of the Hyborian Age of Robert E. Howard’s Conan books… —George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones


Howard wrote pulp adventure stories of every kind, for every market he could find, but his real love was for supernatural adventure and he brought a brash, tough element to the epic fantasy which did as much to change the course of the American school away from precious writing and static imagery as Hammett, Chandler, and the Black Mask pulp writers were to change the course of American detective fiction.—Michael Moorcock, award-winning author of the Elric saga 


Those of us who believed in Conan at the right moment in our lives never stop believing. We might not grow up to become him, but we never grow out of him, either. —Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians


Praise for Jonathan Maberry:


Jonathan Maberry’s sojourn into fantasy with Kagen the Damned is a bawdy, brutal, swashbuckling start to a magnificent epic in the making. It’s sword & sorcery the way I like it: violent, bloody, but with beautiful awe-inspiring moments of wonder.―James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestseller of The Last Odyssey 


Jonathan Maberry is definitely channeling Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, and L. Sprague De Camp―this is a great novel with sharp swords, elder gods, mythical cities, and heroes who will become legends.―Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author on Kagen the Damned


Kagen the Damned is the best sword and sorcery book I have read in the last ten years. Fans of Joe Abercrombie, Pat Rothfuss, Mark Lawrence, and Robert E. Howard are going to love this.―Weston Ochse, author of Seal Team 666


Kagen the Damned is a gloriously nuanced, exceptionally brutal epic fantasy crossed with cosmic horror that manages to mine new material out of a very familiar space. It’s thoughtful, beautiful, awful, fresh, and very, very welcome.―Seanan McGuire, author of When Sorrows Come


This book is violently honest and honestly violent about the horrors of war. Unrelenting action that plunges the reader into the world. Kagen combines the characters of Conan and Elric into a believable melancholy hero.― Robin Hobb, New York Times Bestselling author


Fantasy readers will be spellbound by the intricate worldbuilding and the delightful cast.―Publishers Weekly


A vibrant, textured, and exciting admixture of subgenres that do not often play together.―Kirkus, starred review for Kagen the Damned


A delightfully bizarre cast of characters populates this dark fantasy.―Paste Magazine