Skull-Face

"Skull Face" redirects here. For the Metal Gear character, see List of characters in the Metal Gear series § 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/Brown/African peoples and to re-instate surviving Atlanteans (said to lie dormant in submerged sarcophagi) as the new ruling elite.

"Skull-Head"
Short story by Robert E. Howard
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Adventure
Publication
Published in	Weird Tales
Publication type	Pulp magazine
Publication date	Oct–Dec 1929

Skull-Face was reprinted as the cover story of the December 1952 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries.