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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.

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

This set includes five tales of extraordinary heroism, marvelous intrigue, and exceptional courage that have inspired and amazed people for generations.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

When Roman invaders approach the gates of a mysterious, untamed land, King Bran Mak Morn and his uneasy allies must mount a desperate stand to defend their legacy. But when the legendary Kull of Atlantis—a warrior with the might of a mythical god—appears on the battlefield, alliances, loyalty, and destiny are put to the ultimate test. With every step shadowed by uncertain prophecy, the fight unfolds on the razor’s edge between myth and reality. Can they defeat an empire that has bent the world beneath its iron heel?

Aventurier errant et vagabond sur la Terre, Solomon Kane traque et tue impitoyablement ses ennemis dans un monde élisabéthain pris de folie: brigands et pirates, certes, mais aussi vampires et morts-vivants. Instrument de Dieu ou puritain fou habité par des forces qui le dépassent, qui est Solomon Kane? L'une des créations les plus originales de Robert E. Howard. Cette édition en deux exemplaires numériques, élaborée par Patrice Louinet, l'un des plus éminents spécialistes internationaux de Robert E. Howard et de son œuvre, contient l'intégralité́ des aventures.

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.

“The Scarlet Citadel” is a dark tale of a king in chains, sorcerers, and betrayal. Set in the Hyborian Age, a world teeming with magic and danger, Conan the Cimmerian ascends to the throne. His army marches to aid an ally, but it’s a trap. Conan is captured and imprisoned in the dungeons by the powerful sorcerer Tsotha.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

"Les aventures de Conan" sont une épopée haute en couleur, regorgeant d'exploits en tout genre, de personnages plus grands que nature, de décors fabuleux. Mais elles furent réarrangées après la mort d'Howard selon une chronologie arbitraire, réécrites ou modifiées par d'autres auteurs. Il était temps de rendre son œuvre à son créateur en publiant l'intégrale des nouvelles de "Conan" dans leurs versions authentiques écrites par Robert E. Howard.

Dans le dos des deux fugitifs, la tête gigantesque fendit les branches et creva la cime des arbres et, l'espace d'un instant effroyable, Conan et Valeria virent la tête de cauchemar s'encadrer au milieu des feuilles vertes, les yeux flamboyants et les mâchoires béantes. Puis les crocs géants claquèrent et se refermèrent sur le vide, et la tête se renfonça, disparaissant de leur vue comme si elle venait de s'enfoncer sous l'eau.

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.