Skull-Face

Short story by Robert E. Howard

"Skull-Head"
Short story by Robert E. Howard
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Adventure
Publication
Published in	Weird Tales
Publication type	Pulp magazine
Publication date	Oct–Dec 1929

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.

References

^ The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, pages 194–320. Cosmos Books, July 2007
^ Howard, Robert E. (1976). Skull-Face Omnibus Volume 1: Skull-Face and Others. St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK: Panther. p. 36. ISBN 9780586042205.

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Works by Robert E. Howard

Fantasy

Conan	"Beyond the Black River" "Black Colossus" "The Black Stranger" "The Devil in Iron" "Drums of Tombalku" "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" "The God in the Bowl" "The Hall of the Dead" "The Hand of Nergal" The Hour of the Dragon "Iron Shadows in the Moon" "Jewels of Gwahlur" "The People of the Black Circle" "The Phoenix on the Sword" "The Pool of the Black One" "Queen of the Black Coast" "Red Nails" "Rogues in the House" "The Scarlet Citadel" "Shadows in Zamboula" "The Snout in the Dark" "The Tower of the Elephant" "The Vale of Lost Women" "A Witch Shall be Born" "Wolves Beyond the Border" "Xuthal of the Dusk"
Kull	"By This Axe I Rule!" "Exile of Atlantis" "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" "The Shadow Kingdom"
Bran Mak Morn	"The Children of the Night" "Worms of the Earth"

Adventure

El Borak	"Blood of the Gods" "The Coming of El Borak" "The Country of the Knife" "The Daughter of Erlik Khan" "Hawk of the Hills" "The Lost Valley of Iskander" "North of Khyber" "Son of the White Wolf" "Three-Bladed Doom"

Comedy

Sailor Steve Costigan	"Alleys of Peril" "Blow the Chinks Down!" "Breed of Battle" "The Bull Dog Breed" "Champ of the Forecastle" "Circus Fists" "Dark Shanghai" "Fist and Fang" "General Ironfist" "Night of Battle" "The Pit of the Serpent" "Sailor's Grudge" "The Sign of the Snake" "The Slugger's Game" "Sluggers on the Beach" "Texas Fists" "The TNT Punch" "Vikings of the Gloves" "Waterfront Fists" "Winner Take All"
Breckinridge Elkins	A Gent from Bear Creek Mayhem on Bear Creek The Pride of Bear Creek

Sailor Steve Costigan

Breckinridge Elkins

Horror

John Kirowan	"The Children of the Night" "The Haunter of the Ring" "The Black Stone"

Other

Short story collections	Skull-Face (1946) The Dark Man (1963) Kull (1967) Red Shadows (1968) Wolfshead (1968) Red Blades of Black Cathay (1971) Marchers of Valhalla (1972) The Sowers of the Thunder (1973) Tigers of the Sea (1974) Worms of the Earth (1974) Black Vulmea's Vengeance (1976) The Iron Man (1976) Hawks of Outremer (1979) The Road of Azrael (1979) Lord of the Dead (1981) Nameless Cults (2001) People of the Dark (2005) Heroes in the Wind (2009)
Other stories	Almuric "Black Canaan" "The Cairn on the Headland" "The Curse of the Crimson God" "Hawks Over Egypt" "Pigeons from Hell" Post Oaks & Sand Roughs "The Road of the Eagles" "The Shadow of the Vulture" Skull-Face "The Sowers of the Thunder" "The Twilight of the Grey Gods"
Other characters	Cormac Fitzgeoffrey Dark Agnes de Chastillon Kirby O'Donnell Red Sonya Solomon Kane The Sonora Kid Steve Harrison Turlogh Dubh O'Brien
Poetry	Always Comes Evening (1957) ("Men of the Shadows") Singers in the Shadows (1970) Echoes from an Iron Harp (1972) Shadows of Dreams (1989) Poems (A–H) (I–O) (P–Z)
See also	Bibliography "The Hyborian Age" Unaussprechlichen Kulten