Robert E. Howard's Kull

"BY THIS AXE I RULE!"In the mists of prehistory, when the very continents wore a different shape and face, the warrior Kull won a throne with his mighty sword and his even more deadly battle axe. A barbarian outcast of Atlantis, under sentence of death in his homeland for the crime of giving a condemned prisoner a merciful death, he is now king of Valusia, the most civilized and advanced of the seven empires of the antediluvian world.He has won a kingdom, but now must hold it -against the plotting of treacherous nobles; against the conspiracies of those ancient enemies of all mankind, the serpent-men who can change their forms to appear human; and against the schemes and spells of Thulsa doom, most evil and powerful of sorcerers. But Kull is not alone, having the fierce Brule of Picts at his right hand to advise him in seeing through courtly treachery, and to raise sword with him in battle. Kull, greatest warrior of this world, will prevail against all challenges, shouting his blood-chilling cry above the din of battle. "By this axe I rule!"