eBook by Adam Rose
Cover by Alex Horley (aka Alessandro Orlandelli)
Chapter illustration by Patrick Zircher
From Titan Books and Heroic Signatures
Spoilers! Spoilers!
In Althunia, young Kull of Atlantis is a slave of Eldor (clearly NOT the heroic guardian of the book of living spells) the Game Warden.
The Althunian Skull Forest. A hunting party of FOUR men goes missing, sheep are being mutilated.
Kull must find and terminate the culprit: the Beast of Skull Mountain, if he is successful in his mission, he'll be released from slavery.
An elk points Kull to a hidden trail, Althunian runes on a tree indicate that the Skull Beast's den is above the clouds, so up the mountain Kull goes.
Crows attack from above, Kull finds three decapitated wolves, Kull knows one of them: Tiber the Grey, Kull buries the three canines.
Kull meets Orgon the Bounty Hunter who is also looking for the Skull Beast.
FOUR decaying disciples/slaves of the immortal Beast: Gar (a diminutive of Garou?) and his buddies kidnap Kull and Orgon.
Gar and and his companions supernaturally open a secret route.
They reach a massive cave, Kull and Orgon are told to enter their master's den as "tributes".
Gar and friends go back down the mountain.
In the cave, Kull and Orgon find dead, eaten wolves. A wolf protecting her young injures Orgon and dies, Kull puts the pup in his backpack.
A man covered in filth eats one of Orgon's hands, the man turns into a mountainous werewolf (who clearly has a strong fondness for wolf meat), the werewolf tears Orgon's head off.
To trap the invulnerable werewolf, Kull runs back to the entrance of the cave and creates a small cave-in.
Gar and Co. enter the cave to free their master, Kull pushes the giant boulder near the cave, it crushes one of the disciples and seals the other three and their master within the cave.
Kull the future Conqueror offers the pup to the elder of Orgon's tribe, it will be trained to monitor the werewolf's mountain prison.
What I did like:
King Borna mentioned.
Priestess Malig mentioned.
Gem of Eternity mentioned.
Caverns of Commoria mentioned.
Lake of Visions in Valusia mentioned.
Valka mentioned.
What I did not like:
Were the vines really drinking blood? I wanted to know.
NO Brule the Spear-Slayer! What!?
I give it a 9/10. A fun dreamlike tale full of action. I would love to see more stories by Adam Rose (Huge Detective (Titan Comics)) in future issues of The Savage Sword of Conan!
