Red shadows by Robert E. Howard

"Red Shadows" is a short story by Robert E. Howard, the creator of the iconic Conan the Barbarian character. The story was first published in August 1928, in the magazine Weird Tales, and it features a character named Solomon Kane.

Solomon Kane is a fictional 16th-century Puritan, who is on a never-ending quest to rid the world of evil in all its forms. In "Red Shadows," he is traveling through Europe when he comes across a young woman named Edith who is about to be burned at the stake by a ...