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Robert E. Howard, often regarded as one of the founders of the sword and sorcery genre, presents in 'The Greatest Works of Robert E. Howard: 300+ Titles in One Edition' a vast collection of his most notable works. This comprehensive compilation showcases Howard's distinctive literary style characterized by action-packed plots, vivid descriptions, and a deep exploration of themes such as heroism, honor, and perseverance. The book offers readers an immersion into a fantastical world filled w...

Conan the Cimmerian: the boy-thief who became a mercenary, who fought and loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nore demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian age.Collected together in one volume for the very first time, in chronological order, are Robert E. Howard's tales of the legendary hero, as fre...

In 'THE CTHULHU MYTHOS' by Robert E. Howard, readers are taken on a dark and eerie journey into the world of cosmic horror and ancient beings beyond human comprehension. Howard's writing style is both intense and vivid, drawing readers into a realm where reality and nightmare merge. The book is a significant contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft, expanding upon the lore and bringing new depths to the cosmic dread that defines the genre. Howard's ability to blend grip...

Revised and updated edition with custom illustrations!Join Conan on his many adventures from mercenary and thief to king as he smites demons, fights wizards, battles against all odds, journeys to exotic lands, loves and lusts, uncovers hidden mysteries, and always refuses to yield!This epic collection contains 18 of Robert E. Howard's stories about Conan the Barbarian.These stories were originally published in Weird Tales magazine between 1...

The definitive edition of Conan, featuring every story published in Robert E. Howard's lifetimeArranged in what contemporary scholars consider the preferred reading order, this exhaustive new collection of Conan stories covers every piece that Robert E. Howard published in the thirties, and includes his essay on the world of Conan, The Hyborean Age. The perfect starting place for anyone interested in one of the greatest heroic characters of all time, Conan has been...

With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century—he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan wasn’t the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howard’s fertile imagination.“He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, ...

In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s most enduring heroes. Yet while Conan is indisputably Howard’s greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the brooding intellect of a philosopher, that Howard began to develop the distinctive themes, and the richly evocative bl...

The Steve Harrison series gathers Robert E. Howard's hard-boiled detective tales into a single volume, revealing a lesser-known but fascinating branch of his pulp imagination. Centered on a tough police detective navigating the sinister underworld of River Street, these mysteries fuse crime fiction with gothic atmosphere, lurid action, and the exoticized menace typical of 1930s pulp magazines. Howard's prose is swift, violent, and highly visual, privileging momentum over procedural realism...

This carefully crafted ebook: "ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Robert Ervin Howard (1906 – 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as ...

This ebook compiles Robert E. Howard's complete 'Conan' stories, including "The Hour of the Dragon", "The People of the Black Circle", "A Witch Shall Be Born" and "The Tower of the Elephant". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, wher...

Here are Robert E. Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions.Some of Howard’s best-known characters—Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them—roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa.The collection includes Howard’s masterpiece “Pigeons from Hell,”which Stephen King...

Robert E. Howard is the creator of Conan the Barbarian, one of the most unforgettable fantasy characters of all time. In this novel, one of the last of the Conan tales to be published before the author's untimely demise, Conan's reign as king of Aquilonia is threatened by a group that is plotting to depose him with the help of an ancient wizard who has been resurrected through dark magic.