Skull-Face

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.

"Skull Face" redirects here. For the Metal Gear character, see List of characters in the Metal Gear series § Skull Face.
"Skull-Face"
Short story by Robert E. Howard
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Adventure
Publication
Published inWeird Tales
Publication typePulp magazine
Publication dateOct–Dec 1929
Skull-Face was reprinted as the cover story of the December 1952 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries.

References
  1. The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, pages 194–320. Cosmos Books, July 2007
  2. 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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