Bran Mak Morn: The Last King
From Robert E. Howard?s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction?s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard?s characters, none embodied his creator?s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race.
In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism . . . all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race.
Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, this collection gathers together all of Howard?s published stories and poems featuring Bran Mak Morn?including the eerie masterpiece ?Worms of the Earth? and ?Kings of the Night,? in which sorcery summons Kull the conqueror from out of the depths of time to stand with Bran against the Roman invaders.
Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments, reproductions of manuscripts bearing Howard?s handwritten revisions, and much, much more.
Special Bonus: a newly discovered adventure by Howard, presented here for the very first time.
Bran Mak Morn: The Last King Accessories
 Kull: Exile of Atlantis
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian: The Original Adventures of the Greatest Sword and Sorcery Hero of All Time!
The Conquering Sword of Conan (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 3)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 2)
Lord of Samarcand and Other Adventure Tales of the Old Orient (The Works of Robert E. Howard)
The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Crimson Shadows (Best of Robert E Howard)
The Black Stranger: And Other American Tales (The Works of Robert E. Howard Series)
The End of the Trail: Western Stories (The Works of Robert E. Howard)
The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands (Best of Robert E Howard)
Bran Mak Morn: The Last King Reviews
There are so many good things about this book. Contents are: Foreward, Introduction, Men of the Shadows, King of the Night, A Song of the Race, Worms of the Earth, The Dark Man, The Last Race, Poem, Miscellane, The Little People, The Little People-Typescript, The Children of the Night, Bran Mak Morn, Bran Mak Morn manuscript, Synopsis, Worms of the Earth - Draft Version, Fragment, Poem - Previously Unpublished, Untitled, Appendices, REH and the Picts, A chronology, REH Bran Mak Morn and the Picts, Note on the original Howard Texts. This is a must have and also see the DVD The Whole Wide World starring Renee Zellweger and Vincent D'Onofrio as REH. But of all the many characters he created, none seem to have held for the Texas author a fascination to equal that of the people he called Picts, and their great king, Bran Mak Morn. Enjoy. Here's a small sample by Rusty Burke, 'Robert E. by REH on page 187 Miscellanea. Sketches byl Gary Gianni.
The introduction is superb. Blood & Thunder, The Life & Art of REH by Mark Finn, The Last of The Trunk and The Never Ending Story by Paul Herman, Selected Letters of REH by Rob Roehm, Dark Horse comics, Roy Thomas Conan and Conan The Phenom, Two-Gun Bob, The Dark Barbarian and The Barbaric Triumph by Don Herron, Savage Sword of Conan, The Beast from the Abyss a story about Cats and my all time favorite. Also recommended: Whole Wide World by Novalyne Price who dated REH during the last few years of his life. How can I wear the harness of toil, And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound. Gary does a superb job on these sketches which are about every other page and coincides with the stories. The seemingly endlessly inventive author also created enormously popular characters in other genres, such as the wester tall tales of Breckenridge Elkins, the rollicking misadventrues of Sailor Costigan, and the Middle Easdtern exploits of El Borak and Kirby O'Donnell. Howard (1906-1936), in a writing career that spanned less than a dozen years, created many memorable fantasy adventure characters, such as Conan, Kull, and Solomon kane, who continue to thrill readers long after they first appeared in the legendary magazine, Weird Tales.
I feel I was ripped off by the ads for this book.Again, a disjointed portrayal of a great writer by the authors A significant portion of this book was just a repeat of the story in Kull.
There is a lot of Pict to be found here. Howard, Bran Mak Morn and the Picts · Rusty Burke and Patrice Louinet. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Poem. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Notes on Miscellanea by Rusty Burke. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Worms of the EarthDraft. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Worms of the Earth [Bran Mak Morn]. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : The Lost Race.
Bran Mak Morn the Last King : The Children of the Night. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Foreword by Gary Gianni. Howard and the Picts: A Chronology.
Even the geeky editorial correction notes. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Fragment. Also a reasonable number of illustrations to be found in this volume. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Synopsis [Bran Mak Morn Synopsis]. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : A Song of the Race [Bran Mak Morn]. P.
A very worthy inclusion, indeed. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Bran Mak MornManuscript. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Robert E. 4.5 out of 5 Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Robert E.
Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Untitled Howard Story. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : The Little People. Howard collection, and like the Kull volume chock full of assorted material to go along with the stories. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Kings of the Night [Bran Mak Morn; Kull].
Here you find more than one poem, some articles, drafts, and even a copy of some of the actual typed pages of one story. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Poem [The Drums of Pictdom]. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Bran Mak Morn [Bran Mak Morn]. Fragments of stories, fragments of plays. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : The Little PeopleTypescript. Lovecraft and others, and analysed by the article writers. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Men of the Shadows [Bran Mak Morn].
Bran Mak Morn the Last King : Introduction by Rusty Burke. Another in the Del Rey Robert E. Bran Mak Morn the Last King : The Dark Man [Turlogh OBrien]. One of the most interesting things is at the end, where Howard's writing and thinking about the Pict race is traced via correspondence with H.
These are violent fantasy tales, but written with such literary flare you cannot put them down. Beauty and savagery, sorrow and violence, such is the song of Bran Mak Morn. As compelling adventure stories, nothing is better. Robert E. Howard captures the emotion of rage like no one else. As an exploration of rage and the things it can drive men to do, this is a superlative work.
Just that I expected stories about a central character and got stories about a central idea the race of the Picts in a Howard's mythology. Overall, I was a bit disappointed. The books seemed to have a lot of fillter, and the stories were only loosely connected. Some were definitely atmospheric, so it wasn't that the individual stories were disappointing. I hadn't read any of these stories before, though I like Conan and Kane.
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