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This collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author.

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, sullen-eyed, sword in hand...to tread the jeweled thrones of the earth under his sandalled feet.

Robert E. Howard wrote a total of 21 Conan stories. They became very popular so he kept writing them. These stories feature Conan embarking on heroic adventures filled with fantasy elements such as princesses and wizards. The stories in this boxed set are "The Devil in Iron, "The Phoenix and the Sword, "The Pool of the Black One, "Red Nails," A Witch Shall be Born," and "Shadows in the Moonlight."

Robert E. Howard, renowned creator of Conan the Barbarian, was also a master at conjuring tales of hair-raising horror. In a career spanning only 12 years, Howard wrote more than 100 stories, with his most celebrated work appearing in Weird Tales, the preeminent pulp magazine of the era.

This collection features Howard at his finest and Conan at his most savage. Truly heroic fantasy at its best, this volume contains "The Servants of Bit-Yakin", "Beyond the Black River", "The Black Stranger", "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula", and "Red Nails", which is perhaps Conan's most famous adventure.

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. This volume gathers together three of Howard's longest and most famous Conan stories.

In a meteoric career that spanned a mere 12 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 the Cimmerian 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 blend of history and mythology .

From Robert E. Howard's fertile imagination sprang some of fiction's greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard's characters, none embodied his creator's brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race.

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 was not the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howard's fertile imagination.

Wolfshead and other weird tales is the first volume in the Robert E. Howard Library collection series collecting the spectacular work of the bard of Peaster and master of dark fantasy and strange tales and weird fiction, this volume puts together the early tales and novelettes written by the creator of Conan of Cimmeria, Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn and Solomon Kane originally published by Weird Tales between 1925 and 1928. Collecting In the Forest of Villefère and Wolfshead presenting the dark saga of the tormented De Montour, this volume also features Spear and Fang, which marks ...

Presenting the second volume in the Robert E. Howard Library collection series collecting the spectacular work of the bard of Peaster and master of dark fantasy, strange tales, and weird fiction, this volume puts together the early tales and novelettes written by the creator of Conan of Cimmeria, Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn and Solomon Kane originally published by Weird Tales between 1928 and 1929. In addition to the innovative Red Shadows that introduces us to the avenging wanderer puritan Solomon Kane, alongside Skull in the Stars and Rattle of Bones. This volume also features The ...

An unplanned murder during a bank robbery has another sheriff on the trail of those on the lam.

Back in 2004, "THE HYBORIAN HERESIES" by Dale E. Rippke was first published in print format... Now, to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of this Critically-acclaimed and Award-winning book, it is being published in Kindle Format for the first time! This "Special Edition" includes the entire contents of the original printing, plus 2 Features that have never before been seen in a collected edition: "The Art of Red Nails" by Ver Curtiss, and "The Tao of Conan" by Dale Rippke... Other essays in this edition include: ROBERT E. HOWARD’S CONAN SERIES CHECKLIST, THE DARK STORM CONAN CHRONOLOGY, ...

When Dennis Dorgan is unexpectedly declared the loser in a boxing match against Kid Leary that he quite obviously won, he realizes something has gone amiss. The situation grows worse when his manager comes in and reveals that he has lost all his money and his ship because of the loss. When the crooked referee comes to Dorgan and tells him that the fight was fixed for a reason, Dorgan agrees to help him shake up the bad guy and straighten out the situation.

Robert E. Howard is best known today for his "sword-and-sorcery" stories. But in the early 1930s, he was a legend in boxing circles for his humorously over-the-top adventure stories starring the sailor Steve Costigan, champ of the sea girl - the toughest trading vessel on the seven seas. Steve Costigan is a mariner and amateur boxer, with a heart of gold and a head of solid wood.

Discover the darker side of Robert E. Howard, the legendary creator of Conan the Barbarian, in this spine-chilling anthology of his finest horror tales. "Blood and Shadows" plunges listeners into a world of ancient evils, cosmic terrors, and macabre mysteries, showcasing Howard's unparalleled talent for blending action with atmospheric dread.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presents Robert E. Howard's tale of horrors in Eastern Europe in a 1930s-style radio drama. Charlie Tower seeks refuge from the horrors of the Great War in Berlin's most notorious nightclubs. There a chain of events is set in motion that will lead him across Europe to investigate the mysterious Black Stone. Is it merely a creation of superstitious peasants, or is it a nexus for hideous gods of the ancient world to set foot into ours?

"The Hour of the Dragon", also known as "Conan the Conqueror", is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. Conan, defeated in battle, captured and placed in a monster-infested dungeon, finds an unexpected ally and escapes; meanwhile, the population of the Aquilonian capital, believing him dead, riots and is ready to accept an alternative King.

This collection comprises 40 stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction. From Blackwood's The Empty House, through to Philip K. Dick's The Hanging Stranger, Lovecraft's Out of The Aeons, and beyond.

Follow the grim and righteous Solomon Kane as he uncovers dark secrets, ancient revenge, and spectral justice deep within a cursed forest. When a fellow traveler harbors deadly intentions and a tortured spirit longs for vengeance, the night spirals into blood, betrayal, and bone-rattling terror.