THE STEVE HARRISON SERIES – Complete Detective Mysteries in One Volume (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Detective Tales Featuring a Police Detective, Often Coming Across Weird Cases on his River Street PatrolBy Robert E. Howard
Length5h 56m
About this audiobook
The Steve Harrison series gathers Robert E. Howard's hard-boiled detective tales into a single volume, revealing a lesser-known but fascinating branch of his pulp imagination. Centered on a tough police detective navigating the sinister underworld of River Street, these mysteries fuse crime fiction with gothic atmosphere, lurid action, and the exoticized menace typical of 1930s pulp magazines. Howard's prose is swift, violent, and highly visual, privileging momentum over procedural realism while situating the stories within the popular interwar tradition of sensational detective adventure. Robert E. Howard, best known as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, was a prolific Texan writer whose brief career ranged across fantasy, horror, boxing stories, westerns, and crime fiction. His fascination with barbarism, civilization, physical courage, and social decay informs these detective tales as strongly as it does his sword-and-sorcery work. Writing for the magazine market, Howard adapted his intense narrative energy to contemporary urban settings without abandoning his characteristic obsessions. This collection is recommended for readers interested in pulp history, early American detective fiction, and Howard's development beyond heroic fantasy. Though modern readers should approach some period attitudes critically, the volume offers an important portrait of a restless storyteller experimenting with genre, atmosphere, and violence.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Horror
Length5 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 1, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE STEVE HARRISON SERIES – Complete Detective Mysteries in One Volume (Annotated)
12Graveyard Rats
2Introduction
131. — THE HEAD FROM THE GRAVE
3Author Biography
142. — MADMAN'S HATE
4Historical Context
153. — THE FEATHERED SHADOW
5Synopsis (Selection)
164. — RATS IN HELL
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6The 'Steve Harrison' Saga:
175. — THE RATS EAT
7Fangs of Gold (People of The Serpent)
18The Tomb's Secret
8CHAPTER I
19Analysis
9CHAPTER II Murder Tracks
20Reflection
10CHAPTER III Voodoo Lair
21Memorable Quotes
11Names in the Black Book
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