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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...

A BEAUTIFUL NEW EDITION OF EVERY SOLOMON KANE STORY PUBLISHED IN ROBERT E. HOWARD'S LIFETIMEArranged in their original order of publication, this exhaustive new collection of Solomon Kane stories covers every piece that Robert E. Howard published in the thirties. The perfect starting point for anyone interested in stories which have been described as "the birth of sword & sorcery," this volume includes an introduction and biography covering the life of Rorbert E. H...

Robert E. Howard's 'Conan The Barbarian - All 20 Books in One Edition' is a cornerstone of sword and sorcery literature, portraying the adventures of the iconic warrior Conan across various kingdoms and lands. The writing is characterized by its vivid and dynamic descriptions of battle scenes, as well as a deep exploration of themes such as heroism, honor, and the struggle between civilization and barbarism. Howard's prose is both evocative and action-packed, making each story a thrilling ...

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...

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...

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, ...

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 immortal legacy of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Cimmerian, continues with this latest compendium of Howard’s fiction and poetry. These adventures, set in medieval-era Europe and the Near East, are among the most gripping Howard ever wrote, full of pageantry, romance, and battle scenes worthy of Tolstoy himself. Most of all, they feature some of Howard’s most unusual and memorable characters, including Cormac FitzGeoffrey, a half-Irish, half-Norman man of war who follows Richa...

The complete saga chronicling Conan the Cimmerian as written by Robert E. Howard. Originally appearing in the pulp fiction publication "Wierd Tales" throughout the 1930's, this ebook, which is optimized for Kobo, tells all 18 stories of Conan. Each story was gathered and are re-formatted, in chronological order, as they were from 1932 to 1936.

"Red Nails" is the last of the stories featuring Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard. A novella, it was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine from July to October 1936. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. Due to its dark themes of decay and death, the story is considered a classic of Conan lore while also cited by...

Originally appearing in the pulp fiction publication "Weird Tales" throughout the 1930's, The Complete Conan Saga is the complete collected stories of Conan the Cimmerian as written by Robert E. Howard. Each story was gathered and are re-formatted, in chronological order, as they were from 1932 to 1936.This one of a kind compilation includes an active table of contents and original artwork to include a map of the Hyborian Age, to fully immerse the reader in the world of Conan....

Presenting the complete collection of Robert E. Howard's private eye stories starring Steve Harrison! Everything in this volume-stories, drafts, synopses-was pulled directly from Howard's own typescripts, including an early draft of "Graveyard Rats," the most horrifying of Harrison's adventures.In these pages, you will enter a nightmarish world that blends weird mystery and heart-stopping horror, with Steve Harrison as your guide, a powerful man who is more likely to tear into a fi...