Skull-Face

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{{Infobox short story

| name = Skull-Head

| author = Robert E. Howard

| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Adventure

| published_in = Weird Tales

| publication_type = Pulp magazine

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| pub_date = Oct–Dec 1929

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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.The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, pages 194–320. Cosmos Books, July 2007 The story stars a character called Stephen Costigan{{Cite book|last=Howard|first=Robert E.|title=Skull-Face Omnibus Volume 1: Skull-Face and Others|publisher=Panther|year=1976|isbn=9780586042205|location=St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK|pages=36}} 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.