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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.

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.

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?

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.

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 .

Before writing the Conan stories, Robert E. Howard wrote an alternate history of the world that included the origins of the various races and countries that formed the background of his most famous heroic character. This history shows where the Cimmerians originated and the tribes they fought to establish their kingdom. How did the backward skin-wearing Picts overrun an empire? The answers are here. Fans of the Conan stories will enjoy this grand view of the history of the Hyborian Age.

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Step into the shadowy world of Zamora, where thieves and sorcerers reign, and danger lurks in every corner. In this gripping Conan tale, Robert E. Howard weaves a mesmerizing story of courage, mystery, and cosmic horror.

This classic tale of sword and sorcery chronicles the adventures of Robert E. Howard's most famous character Conan of Cimmeria.

Red Shadows plunges listeners into the brutal and supernatural world of Solomon Kane, one of Robert E. Howard’s most iconic pulp heroes. Driven by a fierce sense of justice—and a touch of righteous fury—Kane travels from storm-swept English coasts to the darkest depths of Africa, hunting evil wherever it hides. When the ruthless bandit Le Loup massacres innocent people, Kane swears vengeance and pursues him across continents, facing bloodthirsty raiders, treacherous jungles, curses, and powerful ju-ju magic.

Our ability to foresee and protect against natural catastrophes has never been greater; yet we consistently fail to heed the warnings and protect ourselves and our communities, with devastating consequences. What explains this contradiction? In The Ostrich Paradox, Wharton professors Robert Meyer and Howard Kunreuther draw on years of teaching and research to explain why disaster preparedness efforts consistently fall short.

In Das verlorene Volk wandert Cororuc, ein keltischer Krieger, durch düstere Wälder und begegnet unheimlichen Gefahren: Räuber, ein verwundeter Wolf mit menschlichem Gang – und ein verborgenes Volk der Pikten, das Britannien einst beherrschte. Zwischen Schlacht, Intrigen und uralten Flüchen erfährt Cororuc von der einstigen Größe dieses Volkes – und überlebt nur dank Loyalität und Mut. Ein episches Fantasy-Hörbuch voller Spannung, Geheimnis und keltischer Legenden, meisterhaft gelesen von Benjamin Werner.

A power-crazed pirate captain allows Conan to stay on his ship. After Conan wins a challenge from another crewmember, he is accepted by the rest of the crew and soon earns their respect and admiration. Without revealing his reasons, the captain sails to a strange island in search of ancient treasure. The bewildered crew delight in the juicy fruit on trees near the shore while the captain goes alone into the forest to find the fortune spoken of in old texts and maps.

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 ...

A Witch Shall Be Born by Robert E. Howard is a gripping sword-and-sorcery fantasy novella set in the ancient desert kingdom of Khauran. The story centers on twin sisters divided by fate—the noble Queen Taramis and her dark counterpart Salome, a witch marked by a blood-red crescent. When Salome returns from exile to seize the throne through deception and sorcery, the kingdom plunges into chaos.

Robert E. Howard's Lord of Samarcand is an engaging tale of adventure and retribution set in a richly imagined medieval East. The story follows Donald MacDeesa, a determined Scottish warrior, as he navigates a world of conflict and ambition. His journey takes him from battle-scarred fields of the late Crusades to the imposing city of Samarcand, a hub of power and intrigue. Guided by Ak Boga, a steadfast Tatar warrior, Donald aligns himself with legendary conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), founder of the Timurid Empire, immersing himself in a realm of strategic battles and shifting loyalties.

The Scarlet Citadel is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in the January 1933 issue of Weird Tales magazine.

When Olivia flees her captor and crosses paths with Conan, the two embark on a perilous journey to a mysterious island haunted by pirates, monstrous beasts, and ancient ruins. Filled with action, intrigue, and Howard’s vivid prose, this fantasy classic captures the raw clash between civilization and barbarism while exploring themes of power, loyalty, and survival.

"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original books featuring Conan the Cimmerian (or Conan the Barbarian), written by American author Robert E. Howard. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan kidnapping a regal princess of Vendhya (pre-historical India) and foiling a nefarious plot of world domination by the Black Seers of Yimsha. Due to its epic scope and atypical Hindustan flavor, the story is considered an undisputed classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars.

Conan is working for pay as a soldier at the frontier fort of Tuscelan. While out scouting he saves the life of Balthus, and the two become embroiled in a fight for their lives and a war against the invading picts. Can Conan and Balthus defeat the evil sorcerer that has summoned ancient monsters and bound the pictish clans as never before?