Conan is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created–a swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, facing powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of thieves and reavers.“Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities . . . there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. . . . Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired,...

In his hugely influential and tempestuous career, Robert E. Howard created the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery—and brought to life one of fantasy’s boldest and most enduring figures: Conan the Cimmerian—reaver, slayer, barbarian, king.“Stories such as ‘The People of the Black Circle’ glow with the fierce and eldritch light of [Howard’s] frenzied intensity.”—Stephen KingThis lavishly illustrated volume gathers together three...

Conan the Barbarian was created by Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine in 1932. For months, Howard had been in search of a new character to market to the burgeoning pulp outlets of the early 1930s. CONTENTS: 1.The Phoenix on the Sword 2.The Scarlet Citadel 3.The Tower of the Elephant 4.Black Colossus 5.The Slithering Shadow 6.The Pool of the Black One 7.Rogues in the House 8.Shadows in the Moonlight

“For headling, nonstop adventure and for vivid, even florid, scenery, no one even comes close to Howard.”—Harry TurtledoveIn a meteoric career that covered only a dozen years, Robert E. Howard defined the sword-and-sorcery genre. In doing so, he brought to life the archetypal adventurer known to millions around the world as Conan the barbarian.Witness, then, Howard at his finest, and Conan at his most savage, in the latest volume featuring the collected wor...

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 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...

The New York Times bestselling book that takes you inside SEAL Team Six – the covert squad that killed Osama Bin LadenSEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers, beginning with the grueling selection process of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)—the toughest ...

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...

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....

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...

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...