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Contents
Introduction
Tigers of the Sea
Swords of the Northern Sea
The Night of the Wolf
The Temple of Abomination



Tigers Of The Sea
Robert E Howard
Edited by Richard L. Tierney
Illustrated by Tim Kirk
ACE FANTASY BOOKS
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INTRODUCTION

One of the most astounding literary phenomena of this century is Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) who, despite
the disadvantage of living his entire short life in or near the dusty little village of Cross Plains, TexasтАФover a
thousand miles from any of his literary peers in the genre of fantastic fictionтАФnevertheless produced a
considerable body of inspiring fantasy-epic prose and poetry. Perhaps his very isolation helped spur his keen
and colorful imagination in a frantic search for relief from the bucolic drabness around him; at any rate, the
fastmoving adventures he contributed to the pulp magazines of the тАЩ20тАЩs and тАЩ30тАЩs are definitely among the
best of their kind, equal to the creations of such masters as Burroughs and Merritt in engrossing the reader in
the excitement of the plot or evoking wonder through the depiction of strange ages and lost empires, and