Skulls in the Stars by Robert E. Howard

“Skulls in the Stars,” is a tale of adventure and supernatural horror. Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) was an influential American pulp writer best known as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian and other sword‑and‑sorcery heroes. Though he is most celebrated today for his adventure fiction, Howard also wrote extensively in horror and dark fantasy. About the story “Skulls in the Stars” is a Solomon Kane story, featuring Howard’s grim, Puritan wanderer who travels through late‑16th‑century Europe hunting evil. The tale was first published in Weird Tales, January 1929. In the story, Kane reaches a crossroads outside a small English town and must choose between a longer, safer route through the swamps and a shorter, more direct path across a barren moor. He is warned that the moor is haunted by a malignant horror that kills all who dare cross it, but Kane—driven by his grim sense of duty and his appetite for confrontation—deliberately takes the cursed road. 00:00 Opening 00:24 Introduction 01:28 Story Begins The text of all stories presented on Strange Stories at Midnight is believed to be in the public domain. https://buymeacoffee.com/strangestori...