Black Canaan by Robert E. Howard
"Black Canaan" by Robert E. Howard is a short story published in 1936. Set in the backwoods of the American South, it follows Kirby Buckner as he returns home after receiving a cryptic warning. He discovers his homeland threatened by a mysterious conjure man named Saul Stark, who plans to lead an uprising. Buckner encounters a bewitching quadroon woman whose supernatural powers hold him captive, drawing him toward a terrifying voodoo ceremony
where dark magic and deadly rituals await in the swamps of Canaan. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936 |
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| Illustrator | De Lay, H. S. (Harold Saylor), 1876-1950 |
| Title | Black Canaan |
| Original Publication | United States: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1936. |
| Series Title | Produced from Weird Tales June 1936. |
| Note | Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canaan |
| Credits | Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 83.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Fantasy fiction |
| Subject | Horror tales |
| Subject | Louisiana -- Fiction |
| Subject | Race relations -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 71168 |
| Release Date | Jul 11, 2023 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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