The Shadow Kingdom
first publication date: 1929-08
genre: sword and sorcery
part of: Kull canonical works
original title: The Shadow Kingdom
original language: English
narrative location: City of Wonders
characters: Kull
published in: The Coming of Conan, King Kull, King Kull, Weird Tales
follows: The Hyborian Age, Exile of Atlantis
followed by: The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune, The Altar and the Scorpion
"The Shadow Kingdom" is a fantasy novelette by American writer Robert E. Howard, the first of his Kull stories, set in his fictional Thurian Age. It was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in August 1929. The story introduces Kull himself, the setting of Valusia, Brule the Spear-Slayer (a supporting character), and the Serpent Men (who don't appear in any other work by Howard, but were adopted by later authors for derivative works and inclusion in the Cthulhu Mythos. However, in the story "Delcardes Cat" Kull encounters what seems to be, though not explicitly, a community of serpent men living under a lake close to his capital.). Source: Wikipedia (en)
Editions
1- date of publication: 2005ISBN-13: 978-0-8095-4461-5
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