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Originally Posted by macphersonrants
The Solomon Kane stories are brilliant examples of what we are talking about in this thread. Howard did some other period stories with occult elements, some of which appear in The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard published by Ballantine.
Recently, C.C. Humphreys has written a couple of books- The French Executioner and Blood Ties that also do a nice job combining swashbuckling and the occult in a 16th century setting.
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Wasn't Red Sonya (Howard's spelling) originally a 1500s era adventuress operating out of the Russian Turkish border area?