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Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
Tennessee Williams; Edited by Jonathan Maberry; Contributions by Hailey Piper, Robert E Howard, R. L. Stine, …
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The Cimmerian Vols 1-4 Box Set (Book)
Robert E Howard, Jean-David Morvan, Régis Hautière, Sylvain Runberg, Robin Recht, …
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ABLAZE is proud to present its bestselling line of UNCENSORED
Robert E. Howard Cimmerian graphic novels, now available in a
handsome slipcase box edition, collecting Volumes 1-4. Each
Cimmerian volume contains two complete stories, plus bonus
material, including the original prose stories, in one epic
hardcover collection! VOLUME 1 - Featuring "QUEEN OF THE BLACK
COAST" & "RED NAILS" QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST - Conan seeks
refuge on a merchant ship, after being pursued for killing a judge.
But soon after setting sail, the Cimmerian and his new companions
face a threat: the legendary Belit, self-proclaimed Queen of the
Black Coast! Soon finding himself smitten by the lovely Belit,
Conan agrees to joins up with her and her crew to brutally pillage
and sail the poisonous river Zarkheba, encountering ancient ruins,
lost treasure, and winged, vicious monstrosities! RED NAILS - Conan
finds himself in the Darfar region, whose territory is almost
entirely covered by a huge forest. Here Conan pledges himself a
mercenary, promising his sword to the highest bidder, fighting
alongside fellow mercenary and fierce female warrior Valeria. After
a clash against a terrible dragon, the two go to a strange
fortified city, apparently deserted...but the duo will quickly
discover that a civilization lives hidden inside, and that the
citadel hides a heavy secret. VOLUME 2 - Featuring "PEOPLE OF THE
BLACK CIRCLE" & "THE FROST-GIANT'S DAUGHTER" PEOPE OF THE BLACK
CIRCLE - The king has just died in the kingdom of Vendhya, struck
down by the spells of the black prophets of Yimsha. The king’s
sister, Yasmina, decides to avenge him…and contacts Conan, then
chief of the Afghuli tribe. But several of Conan’s warriors have
just been killed by the men of the kingdom of Vendhya, further
complicating the matter. The princess thought she could use the
Cimmerian, but rather it is she who will serve his interests... THE
FROST-GIANT'S DAUGHTER - Conan, the only survivor of a ferocious
battle, sits in the midst of a bloodstained snow field. When the
fight is over, the Cimmerian suddenly finds himself overcome with
deep weariness and disgust. Until the moment he meets a redheaded
woman of supernatural beauty, blinding like the glow of the sun on
the snow. Moved by a burning desire, Conan decides to follow her
but finds himself caught in a trap, attacked by two titans. In his
ardor, he was not suspicious…he did not imagine for a second that
his bride was none other than Ymir's own daughter: the frost-giant!
VOLUME 3 - Featuring "IRON SHADOWS IN THE MOON" & "THE
MAN-EATERS OF ZAMBOULA" IRON SHADOWS IN THE MOON: A young woman in
danger is pursued by her vile master. Conan, whose family has just
been wiped out by this same master, puts an end to the beauty's
pursuer, and saves her with a blow of his sword. Bound by fate, the
couple decide to hit the road together. Their journey takes them to
an island where they discover strange ruins inhabited by dark
magic. Their paradise-like refuge soon turns into a suffocating
nightmare where shadows lurk. Who knows the extent of the dangers
that lie there? They will quickly learn that on an island, the
biggest threat does not always come from the outside... THE MAN
EATERS OF ZAMBOULA - The Cimmerian finds himself in the land of a
thousand and one nights! A crossroads of beliefs, languages &
cultures, the mythical trading city of Zamboula is also the scene
of many dark legends. Upon paying the city a visit, Conan is warned
of the dangers of Aram Baksh's home. It is said that most of the
foreigners who stay there disappear under obscure
circumstances...and it is precisely there that the Cimmerian is
spending the night. But by lifting the veil on these mysterious
cases of kidnappings, the Cimmerian will discover another secret,
even more terrible, linked to the whole of the city of Zamboula...
A story imbued with orientalism and macabre witchcraft, The
Man-Eaters of Zamboula offers writer/artist Gess the opportunity to
deliver his vision of Robert E. Howard's hero in a comic book story
of exotic and dark beauty. VOLUME 4 - Featuring "BEYOND THE BLACK
RIVER" & "HOUR OF THE DRAGON" BEYOND THE BLACK RIVER: The Picte
country is an obscure jungle where the border between civilization
and barbarism is thin. Only one thing symbolizes it: the Black
River, which it is claimed that no white man was able to cross and
come back alive. None, except Conan. It is in the heart of this
green hell that the Cimmerian meets Balthus, a young voluntary
peasant whom he saves at the last minute from the clutches of
fierce Pictish warriors. Together, they will try to lend a hand to
the colonists who have established themselves here, on these
hostile lands, in the last bastion of civilization. With a dozen
men, they will have to find the powerful sorcerer Zogar Sag before
he succeeds in uniting the clans and initiating his bloody
invasion… HOUR OF THE DRAGON: Under the funeral vaults of the
mausoleum belonging to the ancient and cruel Emperor Xaltotun of
Python, three men devoured by ambition come to offer to the inert
body of the deceased sovereign the heart of Ahriman, a source of
immor-tality which once belonged to him. Taken away at the cost of
his life. In exchange for this offering, the three men claim a
single thing: the world. However, there is only one person able to
stand in their way, a Cimmerian who seized the throne of Aquilonia:
Conan!
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 lavishly illustrated volume gathers together three of Howard's
longest and most famous Conan stories-two of them printed for the
first time directly from Howard's typescript-along with a
collection of the author's previously unpublished and rarely seen
outlines, notes, and drafts. Longtime fans and new readers alike
will agree that "The Bloody Crown of Conan" merits a place of honor
on every fantasy lover's bookshelf.
THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE
Amid the towering crags of Vendhya, in the shadowy citadel of the
Black Circle, Yasmina of the golden throne seeks vengeance against
the Black Seers. Her only ally is also her most formidable
enemy-Conan, the outlaw chief.
THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON
Toppled from the throne of Aquilonia by the evil machinations of an
undead wizard, Conan must find the fabled jewel known as the Heart
of Ahriman to reclaim his crown . . . and save his life.
A WITCH SHALL BE BORN
A malevolent witch of evil beauty. An enslaved queen. A kingdom in
the iron grip of ruthless mercenaries. And Conan, who plots deadly
vengeance against the human wolf who left him in the desert to die.
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 nor 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 here in the chronological order
they were first published are Robert E. Howard's definitive stories
of Conan, exactly as he wrote them. A foreword and afterword by
Stephen Jones provide a biography of Howard along with a
comprehensive overview of his writing and background on the world
of pulp fiction. World Fantasy Award-nominee Les Edwards
contributes a black and white frontispiece, along with a gold
embossed work on the leather-style cover, while Hugo Award- and
Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and author Stephen Jones provides
an insightful afterword.
Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as
Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less
well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure
stories set in the Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes
as Francis Xavier Gordon--known as "El Borak"--Kirby O'Donnell, and
Steve Clarney. This trio of hard-fighting Americans, civilized men
with more than a touch of the primordial in their veins, marked a
new direction for Howard's writing, and new territory for his
genius to conquer.
The wily Texan El Borak, a hardened fighter who stalks the
sandscapes of Afghanistan like a vengeful wolf, is rivaled among
Howard's creations only by Conan himself. In such classic tales as
"The Daughter of Erlik Khan," "Three-Bladed Doom," and "Sons of the
Hawk," Howard proves himself once again a master of action, and
with plenty of eerie atmosphere his plotting becomes tighter and
twistier than ever, resulting in stories worthy of comparison to
Jack London and Rudyard Kipling. Every fan of Robert E. Howard and
aficionados of great adventure writing will want to own this
collection of the best of Howard's desert tales, lavishly
illustrated by award-winning artists Tim Bradstreet and Jim &
Ruth Keegan.
This is a collection of some of the best ficiton by Robert E.
Howard. The stories feature all of his most famou creations
including Conan, King Kull, Solomon Kane and more.
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, an urge to
right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and
restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect--he was
true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane."
"Collected in this volume, lavishly illustrated by award-winning
artist Gary Gianni, are all of the stories and poems that make up
the thrilling saga of the dour and deadly Puritan, Solomon Kane.
Together they constitute a sprawling epic of weird fantasy
adventure that stretches from sixteenth-century England to remote
African jungles where no white man has set foot. Here are
shudder-inducing tales of vengeful ghosts and bloodthirsty demons,
of dark sorceries wielded by evil men and women, all opposed by a
grim avenger armed with a fanatic's faith and a warrior's savage
heart.
"This edition also features exclusive story fragments, a biography
of Howard by scholar Rusty Burke, and "In Memoriam," H. P.
Lovecraft's moving tribute to his friend and fellow literary
genius.
"
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.
""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."
"
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.
In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years before his
tragic suicide, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre
that came to be called sword and sorcery. Collected in this volume,
profusely illustrated by artist Mark Schultz, are Howard's first
thirteen Conan stories, appearing in their original versions-in
some cases for the first time in more than seventy years-and in the
order Howard wrote them. Along with classics of dark fantasy like
"The Tower of the Elephant" and swashbuckling adventure like "Queen
of the Black Coast," "The Coming of Conan""the Cimmerian" contains
a wealth of material never before published in the United States,
including the first submitted draft of Conan's debut, "Phoenix on
the Sword," Howard's synopses for "The Scarlet Citadel" and "Black
Colossus," and a map of Conan's world drawn by the author himself.
Here are timeless tales featuring Conan the raw and dangerous
youth, Conan the daring thief, Conan the swashbuckling pirate, and
Conan the commander of armies. Here, too, is an unparalleled
glimpse into the mind of a genius whose bold storytelling style has
been imitated by many, yet equaled by none.
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The Cimmerian Vol 2 (Hardcover)
Sylvain Runberg, Robin Recht, Robert E Howard; Artworks by Robin Recht, Jae Kwang Park
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BY CROM! Robert E. Howard's famous Cimmerian UNCENSORED! Discover
the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual. Read the story
as he intended! The Cimmerian Vol 2 includes two complete stories,
The People of The Black Circle, and The Frost-Giant's Daughter,
plus bonus material, including the original prose stories, in one
hardcover collection! In The People of the Black Circle, the king
has just died in the kingdom of Vendhya, struck down by the spells
of the black prophets of Yimsha. The king's sister, Yasmina,
decides to avenge him...and contacts Conan, then chief of the
Afghuli tribe. But several of Conan's warriors have just been
killed by the men of the kingdom of Vendhya, further complicating
the matter. The princess thought she could use the Cimmerian, but
rather it is she who will serve his interests... Sylvain Runberg
and prodigious designer/illustrator Jae Kwang Park adapt one of the
most ambitious and complex Conan stories of Robert E. Howard. An
adventure where epic battles, witchcraft and plots mingle in a
mystical and scary Orient. Where revenge is an art... In The
Frost-Giant's Daughter, Conan, the only survivor of a ferocious
battle, sits in the midst of a bloodstained snow field. When the
fight is over, the Cimmerian suddenly finds himself overcome with
deep weariness and disgust. Until the moment he meets a redheaded
woman of supernatural beauty, blinding like the glow of the sun on
the snow. Moved by a burning desire, Conan decides to follow her
but finds himself caught in a trap, attacked by two titans. In his
ardor, he was not suspicious...he did not imagine for a second that
his bride was none other than Ymir's own daughter: the frost-giant!
A mythical tale both in both form and substance, The Frost-Giant's
Daughter is masterfully adapted by Robin Recht, who manages to
capture the essence of this whirlwind tale of violent desire...a
true love trap in which the force of will of the Cimmerian is put
to the test.
" Behind Howard's stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless
truth of dreams."
-Robert Bloch"
""Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it
nearly gives off sparks."
-Stephen King
The classic pulp magazines of the early twentieth century are long
gone, but their action-packed tales live on through the work of
legendary storyteller Robert E. Howard. From his fecund imagination
sprang an army of larger-than-life heroes-including the iconic
Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, and Bran
Mak Morn-as well as adventures that would define a genre for
generations. Now comes the second volume of this author's
breathtaking short fiction, which runs the gamut from sword and
sorcery, historical epic, and seafaring pirate adventure to
two-fisted crime and intrigue, ghoulish horror, and rip-roaring
western.
Kull reigns supreme in "By This Axe I Rule " and "The Mirrors of
Tuzan Thune"; Conan conquers in one of his most popular exploits,
"The Tower of the Elephant"; Solomon Kane battles demons deep in
Africa in "Wings in the Night"; and itinerant boxer Steve Costigan
puts up his dukes of steel inside and outside the ring in "The
Bulldog Breed." In between, warrior kings, daring knights, sinister
masterminds, grizzled frontiersmen-even Howard's stunning heroine,
Red Sonya-tear up the pages in stories built to thrill by their
masterly creator.
And in such epic poems as "Echoes from an Anvil," "Black Harps in
the Hills," and "The Grim Land," the author blends his classic
characters and visceral imagery with a lyricism as haunting as
traditional folk balladry. Lavishly illustrated by Jim and Ruth
Keegan, here is a Robert E. Howard collection as indispensable as
it is unforgettable.
"Howard had a gritty, vibrant style-broadsword writing that cut its
way to the heart, with heroes who are truly larger than
life."
-David Gemmell
"For stark, living fear . . . What other writer is even in the
running with Robert E. Howard?"
-H. P. Lovecraft
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