Robert E. Howard
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The Complete Chronicles of Conan
Conan the Barbarian: born on a battlefield in Cimmeria, his life was spent wandering the world of the legendary Hyborian Age. From boy-thief to pirate, mercenary and outlaw, ultimately becoming King of Aquilona, Conan carved a red swathe through lost cities and unexplored jungles, facing hideous horrors or supernatural menaces with nothing more than a sharp sword in his hand and a beautiful woman by his side.
Collected together here in the chronological order they were first published are Robert E. Howard’s definitive stories of Conan, exactly as he wrote them, as fresh, atmospheric and vibrant today as they were when they originally appeared in the pulp magazines of more than seventy years ago.
`Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks’ Stephen King
`A hero of mythic proportion, fashioned by a storyteller who helped define what modern fantasy should be’ Raymond E. Feist
`The most popular hero in epic fantasy ... This is Conan exactly as Robert E. Howard presented him’ Karl Edward Wagner
`My, can Howard tell a story!’ Starlog
‘Conan is the barbarian hero to end all barbarian heroes; his later imitations seem pallid by comparison’ L. Sprague de Camp
`Pure adventure yarns with a touch of weirdness’ H.P. Lovecraft
`Howard had a great love for all that was lost and strange and faraway’ Leigh Brackett
`The bloodiest hero in all fantasy fiction’ Brian Lumley
`It is writing which is so concrete, kinetic, manifest, that it seems not to have been cogitated into words’ John Clute
`No one has ever done it quite like Howard’ Dreamwatch
`There has never been another hero quite like Conan’ Science Fiction Chronicle
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The Hour of the Dragon
The Conan Chronicles Volume 2
The Hyborian Age: a time of legends. Conan the Cimmerian rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Wielding his mighty sword, nothing could stand in the way of the barbarian warrior, neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery.
Collected together for the first time in chronological order are all Robert E. Howard’s definitive stories of Conan, exactly as he wrote them, as fresh, atmospheric and vibrant today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines more than sixty years ago.
Collected together for the first time anywhere in the world, in chronological order, are all Robert E. Howard's definitive stories of Conan, exactly as he wrote them, as fresh, atmospheric and vibrant today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines more than sixty years ago.
Fantasy Masterworks is a library of some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books, which along with Tolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy.
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The People of the Black Circle
The Conan Chronicles Volume 1
Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy?thief and mercenary 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.
'Howard was the Thomas Wolfe of fantasy, and most of his Conan tales seem to almost fall over themselves in their need to get out' Stephen King
A hero of mythic proportion, fashioned by a storyteller who helped define what a modern fantasy should be. 'Rogues in the House' is one of the finest tales of sword and sorcery ever written.' Raymond E. Feist
'Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy it nearly gives off sparks' Stephen King
'Conan is the barbarian hero to end all barbarian heroes; his later imitations seem pallid by comparison.' L. Sprague de Camp
'Pure adventure yarns with a touch of weirdness' H.P. Lovecraft
'Conan has remained Howard's most popular character' Karl Edward Wagner
About The Author
Robert Ervin Howard (1906?1936) was born and raised in rural Texas, where he lived all his life. The son of a pioneer physician, he began writing professionally at fifteen. Written between 1932 and 1935, Howard's twenty?one adventures of Conan will be collected into two Fantasy Masterworks volumes. Howard killed himself in June 1936, on learning that his beloved mother had slipped into a terminal coma.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
The Complete Chronicles of Conan
(Gollancz,
2006)
The Hour of the Dragon
(Gollancz Millenium Pbk,
2001)
The People of the Black Circle
(Gollancz Millenium Pbk,
2000)
The Complete Chronicles of Conan
by Robert E. Howard
