| "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/Brown/African peoples and to re-instate surviving Atlanteans (said to lie dormant in submerged sarcophagi) as the new ruling elite.
- ^ 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.