Bran Mak Morn anthology

[shilsen]

Has anyone here picked up the new Bran Mak Morn anthology from Del Rey yet? I've always liked the character of Bran and the anthology's got a couple of my favorite R.E.Howard stories, namely "Worms of the Earth" and "Kings of the Night", so I'm planning to get it after I return to the US in August, but I was wondering if anyone had already got it and what you thought of the collection.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Has anyone here picked up the new Bran Mak Morn anthology from Del Rey yet? I've always liked the character of Bran and the anthology's got a couple of my favorite R.E.Howard stories, namely "Worms of the Earth" and "Kings of the Night", so I'm planning to get it after I return to the US in August, but I was wondering if anyone had already got it and what you thought of the collection.

I picked it up. It's okay. I'm about halfway through "Worms of the Earth." I'm not liking it nearly as much as I did Solomon Kane, though; perhaps it's because my sympathies are more with the Romans than the Picts.

Brad

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I'm not liking it nearly as much as I did Solomon Kane, though; perhaps it's because my sympathies are more with the Romans than the Picts.

Howard had a serious thing against the Romans outside of his writing.

 

[Swoop109]

I picked it up when it first came out and love it. Like the other Howard collections it has the unedited stories in the order in which Howard wrote them. Along with the Bran Mak Morn stories it includes a couple of others in which the Picts play an important part. In addition, it includes the the first chapter of a novel that Howard never completed. This novel was going to deal with the history of the Picts and their withdrawing into the barren lands because of the advances by the Saxons, Romans, Celts, and other invaders. Because it was written by Howard there is the inclusion of mystic elements.

IMO, well worth picking up.

 

[Ibram]

I've been slowly reading through this book (thanks mostly to WoW). Though shorter then the other collections the emotions in the Morn stories seem to run much deeper then the traditional pulp stories (Conan and Kane).

 

[shilsen]

Thanks for the info and opinions.