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...

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,...

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 fisherman loosened his knife in its scabbard. The gesture was instinctive, for what he feared was nothing a knife could slay, not even the saw-edged crescent blade of the Yuetshi that could disembowel a man with an upward stroke. Neither man nor beast threatened him in the solitude which brooded over the castellated isle of Xapur. He had climbed the cliffs, passed through the jungle that bordered them, and now stood surrounded by evidences of a vanished state. Broken columns glimmered ...

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

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...

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...

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, ...

The story is set in the fictional Hyborian Age and follows Conan as he ventures beyond the civilized lands of the Hyborian kingdoms into the untamed wilderness known as the Black River region. The story explores the conflict between the settlers of the frontier town of Conajohara and the Picts, a savage and hostile tribe that inhabits the surrounding lands.Conan, serving as a scout for the settlers, finds himself embroiled in a desperate struggle for survival against the Picts. The story d...

In the last of the Conan stories to be published, there is no end to the action and adventure. He pursues a beautiful former pirate, fights a dinosaur, discover an ancient city, and so much more, as Howard leads the reader through a labyrinth of unexpected twist plots.

“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...

Western Tales: The Ultimate Edition is a definitive collection of Robert E. Howard's traditional and weird western stories, showcasing his unique blend of action, adventure, and vivid storytelling. This 646-page volume features restored classics, rare fragments, and never-before-published content, including alternate drafts and synopses, along with poems and essays that delve into the untamed frontier and the eerie Weird West. A must-have for fans of westerns, pulp fiction, and one of Amer...