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Robert E. Howard was born January 22, 1906, southwest of Fort Worth. His father, a country physician, moved the family around Texas before settling in the small town of Cross Plains in 1919. While in high school, Howard began submitting stories to magazines, and Weird Tales magazine accepted Spear and Fang. Solomon Kane was the first of his continuing characters to see print; others included King Kull and Bran Mak Morn. Howard tried detective fiction, horror, and Paul Bunyanesque tales, then in 1933, Weird Tales introduced Conan the Cimmerian. In 1935 his mother was admitted to the King's Daughters Hospital. Told... Read More
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The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $16.95
“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 . . ... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $16.95
“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 . . ... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2004
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2004
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $18.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $18.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Conquering Sword of Conan
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $16.95
“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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $16.95
“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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Bloody Crown of Conan
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Kull
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $17.00
“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”
–Stephen King
“Robert E. 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
In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $17.00
“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”
–Stephen King
“Robert E. 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
In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Bran Mak Morn: The Last King
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Price: $17.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Price: $17.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $18.00
Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre–and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian–Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more. This spectacular volume, gorgeously... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $18.00
Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre–and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian–Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more. This spectacular volume, gorgeously... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
“[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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
“[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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $16.95
“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 . . ... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $16.95
“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 . . ... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 29, 2004
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 29, 2004
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Bloody Crown of Conan
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Bran Mak Morn: The Last King
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Price: $17.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Price: $17.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Conquering Sword of Conan
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $16.95
“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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $16.95
“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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Kull
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $17.00
“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”
–Stephen King
“Robert E. 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
In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $17.00
“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”
–Stephen King
“Robert E. 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
In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $16.95
Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre–and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian–Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more. This spectacular volume, gorgeously... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $16.95
Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre–and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian–Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more. This spectacular volume, gorgeously... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
“[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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
“[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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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El Borak and Other Desert Adventures
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $18.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $18.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $18.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $18.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
El Borak and Other Desert Adventures
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $18.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $18.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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