Bran Mak Morn: The Last King

Bran Mak Morn: The Last King

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy / Horror / History

SUMMARY: 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 ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism . . . all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race. Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, this collection gathers together all of Howard’s published stories and poems featuring Bran Mak Morn–including the eerie masterpiece “Worms of the Earth” and “Kings of the Night,” in which sorcery summons Kull the conqueror from out of the depths of time to stand with Bran against the Roman invaders. Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments, reproductions of manuscripts bearing Howard’s handwritten revisions, and much, much more. Special Bonus: a newly discovered adventure by Howard, presented here for the very first time.
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The Complete Chronicles of Conan

The Complete Chronicles of Conan

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy / Horror / History

Conan the Cimmerian: the boy-thief who became a mercenary, who fought and loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nore demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian age. Collected together in one volume for the very first time, in chronological order, are Robert E. Howard’s tales of the legendary hero, as fresh and atmospheric today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines of more than seventy years ago. Compiled by and with a foreward and afterword by award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones.
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The Hours of the Dragon

The Hours of the Dragon

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy / Horror / History

Also known as "Conan the Conqueror," The Hour of the Dragon is Robert E. Howard's only full-length novel about Conan, and it is considered by many to be one of his best works. During Conan's reign as King of Aquilonia, a group of conspirators plot to depose him in favor of Valerius, heir to Conan's predecessor Numedides, whom he had slain to gain the throne. To accomplish this they resort to necromancy, resurrecting Xaltotun, an ancient sorcerer from the pre-Hyborian empire of Acheron. With his aid the Aquilonian army is defeated by that of the rival kingdom of Nemedia and occupied. Conan, captured, is slated for execution until the sympathetic slave girl Zenobia risks her life to free him. Conan's quest to retrieve the Heart of Ahriman in order to defeat the wizard and regain his throne takes him through all the lands of Hyboria. After his eventual triumph he vows to make Zenobia his queen. Robert E. Howard is considered the godfather of Sword and Sorcery, and he is the creator of the international icon Conan the Cimmerian. This classic of adventure has been newly designed and typeset in a 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.**
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The Conan the Barbarian Stories

The Conan the Barbarian Stories

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy / Horror / History

An action-packed collection of Conan the Barbarian's wild adventures. In this unparalleled collection from a literary mastermind, swordsman Conan the Barbarian faces powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of thieves. With his character Conan the Barbarian, author Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. In this volume are eighteen Conan stories, including a classic of dark fantasy, "The Phoenix and the Sword," and the classic adventure "The Devil in Iron." These timeless stories feature Conan the raw and dangerous youth, Conan the daring thief, Conan the swashbuckling pirate, and Conan the commander of armies, and bring to mind the pulp tales that dominated the mid-twentieth century. The Conan the Barbarian Stories includes "The Phoenix on the Sword," "The Scarlet Citadel," "The Tower of the Elephant," "Black Colossus," "The Slithering Shadow,"...
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People of the Dark

People of the Dark

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy / Horror / History

The definitive 10-volume set of Robert E. Howard's weird fiction and poetry (with all texts meticulously restored to the original versions as published in "Weird Tales" and other magazines) continues with "People of the Dark." This volume kicks off with an introduction by fellow-Texan Joe R. Lansdale and includes "The Black Stone," "Children of the Night," "The Dark Man," "The Footfalls Within," "Gods of Gal-Sagoth," "Horror from the Mound," "Kings of the Night," "The Last Day," "People fo the Dark," "The Song of the Mad Minstrel," and "The Thing on the Roof."**
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The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy / Horror / History

SUMMARY: Here are 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 calls “one of the finest horror stories of [the twentieth] century,” a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation–and into the maw of its fatal secret. In “Black Canaan” even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers–and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare “Worms of the Earth” and “The Cairn on the Headland,” Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the world’s great masters of the macabre.
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Collected Western Stories of Robert E. Howard (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)

Collected Western Stories of Robert E. Howard (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy / Horror / History

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains twenty-one western stories by Robert E. Howard, the creator of the sword-and-sorcery hero 'Conan.' This collection contains an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: Breckinridge Elkins Stories Breckinridge Elkins A Gent from Bear Creek (novella) Cupid from Bear Creek Evil Deeds at Red Cougar Guns of the Mountains High Horse Rampage No Cowherders Wanted Pilgrims to the Pecos Pistol Politics Sharp’s Gun Serenade Texas John Alden The Apache Mountain War The Conquerin’ Hero of the Humbolts The Feud Buster The Haunted Mountain The Riot at Cougar Paw The Road to Bear Creek The Scalp Hunter War on Bear Creek Other Works The Vultures of Whapeton While Smoke Rolled This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.
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Shadow Kingdoms

Shadow Kingdoms

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy / Horror / History

SHADOW KINGDOMS is the first volume of the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, presenting all of Howard's work for the pulp magazine Weird Tales meticulously restored to its original magazine texts. Edited by Paul Herman. Introduction by Mark Finn. Cover by Stephen Fabian. This volume contains: Two-Gun Musketeer: Robert E. Howard's Weird Tales, by Mark Finn Spear and Fang In the Forest of Villefère Wolfshead The Lost Race The Song of the Bats The Ride of Falume The Riders of Babylon The Dream Snake The Hyena Remembrance Sea Curse The Gates of Nineveh Red Shadows The Harp of Alfred Easter Island Skulls in the Stars Crete Moon Mockery Rattle of Bones Forbidden Magic The Shadow Kingdom The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune The Moor Ghost Red Thunder**
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