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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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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Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments,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.
"FOR HEADLONG, NONSTOP ADVENTURE AND FOR VIVID, EVEN FLORID,
SCENERY, NO ONE EVEN COMES CLOSE TO HOWARD."
-Harry Turtledove
In a meteoric career that covered only a dozen years, Robert E.
Howard defined the sword-and-sorcery genre. In doing so, he brought
to life the archetypal adventurer known to millions around the
world as Conan the barbarian.
Witness, then, Howard at his finest, and Conan at his most savage,
in the latest volume featuring the collected works of Robert E.
Howard, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Greg Manchess.
Prepared directly from the earliest known versions-often Howard's
own manuscripts-are such sword-and-sorcery classics as "The
Servants of Bit-Yakin" (formerly published as "Jewels of Gwahlur"),
"Beyond the Black River," "The Black Stranger," "Man-Eaters of
Zamboula" (formerly published as "Shadows in Zamboula"), and,
perhaps his most famous adventure of all, "Red Nails."
The Conquering Sword of Conan" "includes never-before-published
outlines, notes, and story drafts, plus a new introduction,
personal correspondence, and the revealing essay "Hyborian
Genesis"-which chronicles the history of the creation of the Conan
series. Truly, this is heroic fantasy at its finest.
This collection showcases Robert E. Howard's comic westerns.
Howard's novel A Gent from Bear Creek is included (with its text
restored), as well as two additional western stories featuring
Breck Elkins and includes an introduction by Paul Herman.
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
Villefhre," "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."
Robert E. Howard came into the fiction magazine scene virtually on
Dashell Hammett's heels. By that time Howard was a full-fledged
professional writer; he was willing to try any marketplace to make
a living. Despite an aversion to the detective formula, he wrote
the tales in Graveyard Rats during the same years he chronicled the
adventures of Conan. This collection features a new introduction by
scholar Don Herron, editor of The Dark Barbarian, the definitive
look at the life and work of Robert E. Howard.
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.
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."
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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