Solomon Kane is an English Puritan driven by an inward, quasi-divine compulsion to hunt and destroy evil wherever it surfaces. Gaunt, sombre, and armed with an unshakeable moral certainty, he confronts sorcerers, slave traders, and supernatural monsters across two continents.
His adventures are set against the historical backdrop of sixteenth-century Africa and Europe, distinguishing them from Howard's purely fictional prehistoric cycles. Kane embodies a Puritan austerity darker than any of Howard's other heroes, making him a singular figure in weird fiction.