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This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein.

We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by The Ring of Thoth to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in The Captain of the Polestar, we encounter a monstrous creature in The Terror of Blue John Cap and the beings that live above our heads in The Brazilian Cat and The Leather Funnel; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in Lot 249.

Other Stories include:

• The Lord of Château Noir
• The New Catacomb
• The Case of Lady Sannox
• The Brown Hand
• The Horror of the Heights
• How It Happened
• Playing with Fire

The Horror of the Heights & Other Strange Tales collects fourteen vintage stories, told as only a master of the Victorian terror tale can tell them.

In these sophisticated fictions souls change bodies, monsters haunt the upper atmosphere, séances summon creatures from the astral plane, and mummies stalk the fog shrouded streets of London.

This volume features the best of Doyle's incomparable tales of the macabre, including:

• "The Captain of the 'Pole-Star' " -- In the wild wastes of the arctic, a sea captain confronts the specter of a memory that has haunted him for much of his life.
• "Lot No. 249" -- Woe betide the man who crossed Bellingham, a student of Egyptian lore who could reanimate the dead to do his bidding.
• "The Parasite" -- Who was safe from the irresistible Miss Penclosa, a woman who could insert herself into a person's thoughts and assert her will against their wishes?
• "The Leather Funnel" -- Anyone who slept in the room with the antique artifact endured horrible dreams of cruel tortures.
• "The Horror of the Heights" -- The first aeronaut to ascend to the stratosphere finds it populated by a species that is alien -- and hostile.

Open this book and enter a world of gas-lit thrills and chills, where the most logical thing of all is to be scared.

The sunken city of Atlantis is discovered by a team of explorers led by Professor Maracot. He is accompanied by Cyrus Headley, a young research zoologist and Bill Scanlan, an expert mechanic working with an iron works in Philadelphia who is in charge of the construction of the submersible which the team takes to the bottom of the Atlantic.

Presented by the Horror Writers Association, this collection of classic short stories were written by iconic author--and creator of Sherlock Holmes--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A Beast That Has Tasted Blood - essay by Daniel Stashower
• The Parasite - (1894) - novella
• The Mystery of Sasassa Valley - (1879) - short story
• J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement - (1884) - novelette
• The Captain of the "Pole-Star" - (1883) - novelette
• The Great Keinplatz Experiment - (1885) - short story
• The Ring of Thoth - (1890) - short story
• The Bully of Brocas Court - (1921) - short story
• Selecting a Ghost: The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange - (1887) - short story
• How It Happened - (1913) - short story
• About The Author, Arthur Conan Doyle - essay by Eric J. Guignard
• Suggested Discussion Questions For Classroom Use - essay by Eric J. Guignard
• Suggested Further Reading of Fiction - essay by Eric J. Guignard

In 1894, the publishing house of Archibald Constable & Co. launched a series of novels by well-known authors called The Acme Library. The two tales paired in this volume were the first two entries in the set. Unlike Constable's publication of Dracula in 1897, the Acme Library was a failure, and copies of books in the short-lived series are quite rare today.

In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Parasite, a sceptical scientist engages in dangerous experiments with Miss Penelosa, a hypnotist with deadly powers. Bram Stoker's The Watter's Mou' is a thrilling tale of romance and smuggling along the Scottish coast. These two short novels are fascinating in their own right, but also in how they reveal different sides of these two authors, best known for their creations Sherlock Holmes and Dracula.

This edition features the unabridged texts of both novellas, taken from the scarce British first editions, and includes a substantial introduction by Catherine Wynne tracing the many parallels and convergences of the two authors' lives and literary careers. Also included are explanatory footnotes and an appendix containing Doyle's haunting story "John Barrington Cowles," Stoker's surreal "The Coming of Abel Behenna," and a 1907 interview of Doyle by Stoker.

The Sword of Rhiannon

Greed pulls the archaeologist Matt Carse into the forgotten tomb of the Martian god Rhiannon and plunges the unlikely hero into the Red Planet's fantastic past, when vast oceans covered the land and the legendary Sea-Kings ruled from terraced palaces of decadence and delight. Talented enough to co-write The Big Sleep film with William Faulkner and imaginative enough to pen the original screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back, Leigh Brackett is a giant in the science-fiction field, and The Sword of Rhiannon is one of her most popular adventure tales.

Conan the Conqueror

In this epic, Conan fights to recover the throne of Aquilonia from Nemedian invaders aided by the Acheronian wizard Xaltoltun.

As a favored son in one of the high families of Aquilonia, Nermesa Klandes wanted for nothing—except glory won by his own hand. Defying his family and casting aside the opulence he was born into, Nermesa joins the Aquilonian army so that he might serve his liege, King Conan.

But Nermesa soon learns there is a great distance between his courageous idealism and the gory battlefields of the Westermarck, where the savage Picts wage unceasing warfare. Through bravery and cunning, Nermesa comes into his own as a warrior and a man.

When he kills the Pictish leader, he is hailed as a hero. But he also unleashes an unholy power that will shake the very foundations of the Aquilonian Empire...

Nermesa Klandes abandoned a life of opulence to join the Aquilonian army, and serve the great King Conan. Earning rank and respect through his courage and loyalty, he was made an officer in the elite warrior band known as the Black Dragons.

But when his first assignment ends in bloodshed, it marks the beginning of the young knight's most perilous test. Caravans from Aquilonia's neighbors are being set upon and slaughtered by an unknown enemy. Assigned to ride with a caravan, Nermesa is pulled into a diabolical plot of dark magic and demonic powers that threatens to shake Aquilonia to its very foundations—and bring King Conan to his knees...

In the ream of Aquilonia, in the time when Conan was King, an idealistic nobleman seeks his destiny within the ranks of the greatest warriors in the land...

Born into wealth, Nermesa Klandes long ago cst aside his birthright to serve Kin gConan as a knight in the legendary Black Dragons--the elite warriors of Aquilonia. Now, after years of facing danger and death without care of reward, Nermesa is finally going to take something as his own--a wife.

Befor ehe departs for his wedding, he is asked to secretly deliver important documents to an ally of the king. This seemily simple task thrusts Nermesa into a labyrinthine plat to do what nothing in existence has been able to do--kill Conan. And to the knight's horror, he soon learns that the man chosen to do the murderous deed is a man of answerving courage and loyalty who King Conan trusts more than anyone--Nermesa himself...

In the realm of Aquilonis, in the time when Conan was King, a young barbarian fights to restore the honor of his tribe--and to claim his revenge...

In the borderlands of Koronaka, there is a tenuous peace between the settlers and the uncivilized Picts of the Bear Clan. An envoy of the king arrives to secure and spread such harmony all slong the Westermarck--bringing with him his headstrong daughter, Alanya.

Alanya's free spirit catches the attention of Kral--a Pictish warrior just coming of age--who is fascinated by her beauty and courage. Meeting in secret, they forge an unlikely bond. But when they are discovered, the results are tragic, as Kral returns to his village to find his clan slaughtered--and their sacred crown stolen.

Aided by Alanya and a circle of allies, Kral embarks on a quest against those who destroyed his people, and the tyrant who took the precious Teeth of the Ice Bear. And to do so, he must become his enemy's worst nightmare.

He must become a ghost...

In the realm of Aquilonia, in the time when Conan was King, a young barbarian fights to restore the honor of his tribe—and to claim his revenge...

In the bustling city of Tarantia, the young Pictish warrior Kral has been imprisoned after slaughtering a cadre of city Rangers and Aquilonian soldiers, while his friends Alanya and Doniel struggle to find safety in the labyrinthian city streets.

But Kral’s search for the Teeth of the Ice Bear—and his assaults on those who stole it—have caught the attention of King Conan himself. There are rumors he is sending a mighty force to Kral’s homeland to crush the presumed Pictish rebellion, even as the Picts themselves are on the verge of launching a campaign that will drench the land in blood.

Now, Kral and his companions must follow the trail of the Teeth through the back alley shadows of Tarantia, to the halls of King Conan, and across the seas where their greatest challenge awaits them...

The young Pictish warrior Kral, aided by his loyal cadre of friends, sails to the sinister and dangerous realm of Stygia, on the trail of the stolen holy relic that could save his people--the Teeth of the Ice Bear. Yet even after enduring perils beyond their darkest dreams, they find that part of their prize is missing--stolen by the duplicitous warrior-thief, Conor.

Journeying into the heart of the Cimmerian wilderness in the dead of winter, Kral and his companions search for their traitorous former comrade even as the enraged Picts wage a desperate, doomed war against the great King Conan himself.

Beset by enemies on all fronts, Kral must fight for possession of the Teeth of the Ice Bear if he is to save his people from utter annihilation, and claim a destiny he never could have dreamed of...

Anok Wati, a young warrior of the streets, strikes a pact with an ancient and forbidden god who gives him a seemingly impossible task. To unravel the mysteries of the past and avenge his father's death, Anok must join the sinister cult of the snake-god Set--and destroy them from within.

Seeking his father's murderer, the warrior Anok has joined the Cult of Set. Tainted by dark sorcery, he begins a perilous journey across the desert to a city of outlaw sorcerers in order to control his magic before it consumes his soul.

Cursed with an unspeakable power, Anok Wati, the heretic of Set, has unknowingly unleashed a hideous evil. And unless he can find the hero within himself, and destroy a god given flesh, all of Hyboria will be enslaved.

In the bleak northlands, Grimnir, the living god of the plundering Vanir, is leading his hordes across Cimmeria. Tales of Grimnir's fury spread as refugees scatter throughout the land to escape his wrath.

In the village of Gaud, the young warrior Kern, the "Wolf-Eye," has been exiled, an outcast from clan and kin. It is he who is fated to confront the dreaded Grimnir. But as loyal friends and desperate fighters rally to his side, even Kern does not know whether he leads his people to deliverance, or certain death.

Kern "Wolf-Eye" and his Men of the Wolves continue their war against the Vanir raiders. But innocents are paying the price for the Wolves' actions as the Vanir pillage and burn one village after another.

Only by uniting the Cimmerian clans under one banner--and one army--will Kern be able to rid the land of the Vanir once and for all.

The army of Kern "Wolf-Eye" has been scattered, and as the dead are buried, the tribes gather to choose new leaders.

To prove his worth, Kern must seek out the House of Crom, where rests a weapon of legend that can kill any man, beast, or god. For in his heart he knows that not all glory lies on the battlefield, and that there is no sacrifice too great to sing one last song of victory.

The first in a new series of Conan reprints!

Conan the Barbarian is one of the most famed figures in fantasy fiction. With the success of the new film starring Jason Momoa and Ron Perlman, the time is right to revisit Robert E. Howard's classic stories.

Presented in chronological order over three books, all of Conan's life is here, from his wild adventures as a youth to the final tale of Conan the King. Howard's tales of the wanderer, the reaver, the thief, the Barbarian have never been surpassed.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - The Hyborian Age - (1938) - short fiction
• 26 - The Tower of the Elephant - (1933) - novelette
• 52 - The Hall of the Dead (Synopsis) - (1976) - short fiction
• 54 - The God in the Bowl - (1952) - short story
• 76 - Rogues in the House - (1934) - novelette
• 102 - The Hand of Nergal - (1976) - short fiction
• 105 - The Frost-Giant's Daughter - (1976) - short story
• 114 - Queen of the Black Coast - (1934) - novelette
• 146 - The Vale of Lost Women - (1967) - short story
• 164 - The Snout in the Dark (Draft) - (1979) - short story
• 174 - Black Colossus - (1933) - novelette
• 214 - Shadows in the Moonlight - (1934) - novelette
• 248 - A Witch Shall Be Born - (1934) - novelette
• 294 - Shadows in Zamboula - (1935) - novelette
• 328 - The Devil in Iron - (1934) - novelette

The second volume in our complete Conan trilogy.

Conan the Barbarian is one of the most famed figures in fantasy fiction. With the success of the new film starring Jason Momoa (of A GAME OF THRONES) and Ron Perlman, the time is right to revisit Robert E. Howard's classic stories.

Presented in chronological order over three books, all of Conan's life is here, from his wild adventures as a youth to the final tale of Conan the King. Howard's tales of the wanderer, the reaver, the thief, the Barbarian have never been surpassed.

Table of Contents:

• Red Nails - (1936) - novella
• Jewels of Gwahlur - (1935) - novelette
• The Slithering Shadow - (1933) - novelette
• The People of the Black Circle - (1934) - novella
• The Pool of the Black One - (1933) - novelette
• Beyond the Black River - (1935) - novella

The third in our volume of Conan classics

Conan the Barbarian is one of the most famed figures in fantasy fiction. With the success of the new film starring Jason Momoa and Ron Perlman, the time is right to revisit Robert E. Howard's classic stories.

Presented in chronological order over three books, all of Conan's life is here, from his wild adventures as a youth to the final tale of Conan the King. Howard's tales of the wanderer, the reaver, the thief, the Barbarian have never been surpassed.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - The Black Stranger - (1987) - novella
• 87 - Wolves Beyond the Border (Draft) - (2000) - short story
• 111 - The Phoenix on the Sword - (1932) - novelette
• 137 - The Scarlet Citadel - (1933) - novelette
• 181 - The Hour of the Dragon - (1977) - novel (variant of Conan the Conqueror: The Hyborean Age 1950)
• 387 - Cimmeria - (1965) - poem
• 389 - Notes on Various People of the Hyborian Age - essay

The People of the Black Circle is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues. Howard earned $250 for the publication of this story.

It's set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan kidnapping an exotic princess from Vendhya (prehistoric India), while foiling a nefarious plot of world conquest by the Black Seers of Yimsha. Due to its epic scope and atypical Hindustan flavor, the story is considered an undisputed classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his best tales.

It is also one of the few Howard stories where the reader is treated a deeper insight on magic and magicians beyond the stereotypical Hyborian depiction as demon conjurer-illusionist-priests.

"A Witch Shall Be Born" by Robert E. Howard is a tale of dark sorcery and royal intrigue.

Queen Taramis of Khauran is brutally usurped by her malevolent twin sister, Salome, a witch believed dead. Salome's reign of terror, marked by witchcraft and despotism, spurs Conan the Barbarian into action. As the captain of the queen's guard, Conan leads a rebellion to restore Taramis and free the kingdom from Salome's evil clutches.

In "The Tower of the Elephant" by Robert E. Howard, young Conan seeks treasure and knowledge within a mysterious tower, guarded by magic and monsters. He faces deadly challenges and uncovers cosmic truths, altering his destiny and understanding of power and wisdom.

Table of Contents:

• The Tower of the Elephant - interior artwork by Richard Robertson
• 9 - The Tower of the Elephant - (1933) - novelette
• 55 - The God in the Bowl - (1952) - short story

Conan the Cimmerian is back in this tale of adventure, love, and magic. One of the strangest stories ever written-the tale of a barbarian adventurer, a woman pirate, and a weird roofed city inhabited by the most peculiar race of men ever spawned.

In "The Devil in Iron," an ancient demon, Khosatral Khel, is awakened on the remote island of Xapur due to the meddling of a greedy fisherman. Upon reawakening, Khel resurrects the ancient fortress which once dominated the island, including its cyclopean walls, gigantic pythons, and long-dead citizens.

Table of Contents:

• The Devil in Iron - interior artwork by Dan Green
• 11 - Shadows in Zamboula - (1935) - novelette
• 81 - The Devil in Iron - (1934) - novelette

"Rogues in the House" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine circa January 1934. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan inadvertently becoming involved in the power play between two powerful men fighting for control of a city. It was the seventh Conan story Howard had published.

Table of Contents:

• Rogues in the House - interior artwork by Marcus Boas
• 11 - Rogues in the House - (1934) - novelette
• 71 - The Frost-Giant's Daughter - short story

"Queen of the Black Coast" is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine circa May 1934. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming a notorious pirate and plundering the coastal villages of Kush alongside Bêlit, a head-strong femme fatale.

Due to its epic scope and atypical romance, the story is considered an undisputed classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his most famous tales.

Table of Contents:

• Queen of the Black Coast - interior artwork by Michael Hague
• 11 - Queen of the Black Coast - (1934) - novelette
• 85 - The Vale of Lost Women - (1967) - short story

In this exciting story Conan is a mercenary soldier searching for the the treasure of a lost city. After fighting and overcoming several perils, both natural and supernatural, he finds that some things are more valuable than a casket of jewels.

Table of Contents:

• Jewels of Gwahlur - (1935) - novelette
• 11 - Jewels of Gwahlur - interior artwork by Dean Morrissey
• 105 - The Snout in the Dark - short fiction

A powerful wizard is awoken—with dreams of world domination—from his three-thousand year sleep. He gathers an army of desert tribes and sets out to conquer the Hyborian nations. Only Conan can stand in his way.

Table of Contents:

• Black Colossus - interior artwork by Ned Dameron
• 11 - Black Colossus - (1933) - novelette
• 107 - Shadows in the Moonlight - (1934) - novelette

Conan becomes the captain of a pirate vessel and encounters a remote island with a mysterious pool that has powers of transmutation. Expect the unexpected in this exciting tale.

Table of Contents:

• The Pool of the Black One - interior artwork by Hank Jankus
• 13 - The Pool of the Black One - (1933) - novelette
• 81 - Drums of Tombalku (fragment) - (1966) - short fiction

This is the only novel by Howard featuring his Conan character. It was originally published as a serial in "Weird tales" from Dec. 1935 to April 1936. This edition is volume 1 of a set of authorized editions featuring a collection of Conan novellas which were first published separately in the 1930's.

Imagine a world of gods and demons, where men are warriors, women are beautiful, life is a fantastic adventure, and the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews, the blue-eyed barbarian giant who towers above the savage Hyborian world.

Table of Contents:

• The Conan Saga - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• Legions of the Dead - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
• The People of the Summit - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Björn Nyberg
• Shadows in the Dark - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
• The Star of Khorala - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Björn Nyberg
• The Gem in the Tower - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
• The Ivory Goddess - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
• Moon of Blood - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
• Hyborian Names - essay by L. Sprague de Camp

Aquilonia, once the proudest land in all of Hyboria, has fallen under the tyrannical reign of a mad king. As his brutal insanity sweeps the land, only one man dares stand against him: Conan the barbarian.

Conan becomes the leader of an army of rebels, brave warriors who thought their battles would be fought with spear and sword, axe and dagger. In this they were mistaken, for their greatest foe is not the army of Aquilonia, but the vile sorcerer Thulandra Thuu.

Dark clouds loom ahead for the people of Aquilonia, and only Conan can save them.

With the beautiful and fierce Isparana at his side, Conan must cross a brutal and deadly desert in order to deliver their precious cargo-a magical amulet known as the Eye of Erlik. But rather than collecting untold riches for their rare treasure, they are betrayed by a ruthless tyrant and his evil mage.

Conan has faced many mortal dangers, perils of magic and perils of steel. But when the treacherous prestidigitator unleashes the bloodthirsty Sword of Skelos, a weapon of both magic and steel-a sword that can fight on its own-Conan faces one of his most dire challenges.

How will Conan survive this battle, when there is no foe to slay?

Facing the gallows for defending his honor-by killing the captain of the guard-the mighty Conan jumps feet first into a rescue attempt of one of his fellow prisoners. When Conan learns his rescuers are the daring Rebels of the White Rose, he joins their blood-soaked insurrection.

But Conan's struggles are only beginning, for the road to the throne is defended by the Final Guard--indestructible warriors made of stone. Conan must draw steel against these indomitable foes and pray that Krom will guide his blade both strong and true.

Conan is back, and at the top of his form!

SFWA Grand Master L. Sprague de Camp was revered in the genre of fantasy for both his fiction and nonfiction. Booklist praised his novel The Honorable Barbarian, saying: "The action is brisk, and the worlds and characters are described with de Camp's deft, light touch... thoroughly agreeable entertainment," while Kirkus Reviews said of The Pixilated Peeress "the unassuming style and verve of the telling keep the pages turning. Pure prose junk-food."

But more important, L. Sprague de Camp wrote Dark Valley Destiny, the definitive biography of Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard, leaving little wonder as to why Conan and the Spider God is considered one of the finest novels in the canon of Conan.

Son of a blacksmith, a former slave and thief, Conan the Cimmerian has risen to the rank of Captain of the Royal Guard. But as usual, trouble is his bedfellow.

Forced to kill while defending himself, Conan must flee the vengeance of the High Priest of Erlik. Foraging through field and forest, meeting friend and foe, Conan cuts a bloody swath through assassins and bounty hunters all the way to the sinister temple of Zath, where he encounters the huge and hideous Spider God. Facing certain death, Conan becomes both the hunter... and the hunted.

Conan and the Spider God is a thrilling adventure of the mighty barbarian, from one of the genre's most revered authors.

A grand adventure of the mighty thewed barbarian, from one of Fantasy's biggest names

Conan, The name has inspired generations, one that resounds through time immemorial. Yet it all began with a handful of stories from Robert E. Howard. In the decades since, there have been feature films, television and comic book series, and numerous spin-off novels. In 1979, Poul Anderson--winner of a staggering eight Hugo and three Nebula Awards--wrote what is regarded as one of the finest adventures in the canon of Conan:

Conan the Rebel.

Conan the barbarian and Belit, his raven-haired beauty, lead a band of savage pirates striving to free Belit's people from the iron grip of an evil reptile god and its cruel minions. Striking at the heart of tyranny, Conan must break the chains of oppression before eternal darkness claims them all.

Conan the Barbarian is a novelization of the feature film of the same name.

OUT OF A DARK AGE COMES THE GREATEST WARRIOR OF ALL TIME...

In a land of darkling twilight, a world of ancient wizards and dazzling treasures of raging monsters and valiant warriors, the fate of kingdoms balances on his blade alone...

As a child he saw his parents slaughtered by the Snake Cult. In slavery he grew to mighty manhood, trained as a master swordsman and gladiator. As he slaved in chains he planned for freedom and murderous revenge. His day would come. For he was destined to become the warrior who would rule all...

Thief. Warrior. Gladiator. King.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN.

This book contains the only Robert Howard novel published during his lifetime, 'The Hour of the Dragon.' In this epic, Conan fights to recover the throne of Aquilonia from Nemedian invaders aided by the Acheronian wizard Xaltoltun. This edition also includes 'The Hyborian Age,' a description of the times and lands that Conan was familiar with.

The People of the Black Circle is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues. Howard earned $250 for the publication of this story.

It's set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan kidnapping an exotic princess from Vendhya (prehistoric India), while foiling a nefarious plot of world conquest by the Black Seers of Yimsha. Due to its epic scope and atypical Hindustan flavor, the story is considered an undisputed classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his best tales.

Conan the Cimmerian (Barbarian) is back in this tale of adventure, love, and magic. One of the strangest stories ever written-the tale of a barbarian adventurer, a woman pirate, and a weird roofed city inhabited by the most peculiar race of men ever spawned.

Table of Contents:

• Red Nails - interior artwork by Harold S. De Lay and Vincent Napoli and Hugh Rankin
• 1 - Foreword (Red Nails) - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
• 12 - Map of the Hyborian World - (1977) - interior artwork by John Mayer
• 15 - Beyond the Black River - [Conan] - (1935) - novella
• 93 - Shadows in Zamboula - [Conan] - (1935) - novelette
• 137 - Red Nails - [Conan] - (1936) - novella
• 247 - The Hyborian Age - [Conan] - (1938) - short fiction
• 281 - Afterword (Red Nails) - essay by Karl Edward Wagner

"The Coming of Conan" is a collection of Robert E. Howard's early Conan stories, showcasing the barbarian hero's adventures in the Hyborian Age. Conan is depicted as a raw, dangerous youth, a daring thief, and a swashbuckling pirate, ultimately revealing him as a commander of armies and a figure of primal strength and ambition. The stories, written in the order they were composed, delve into Conan's encounters with sorcery, deadly creatures, and ruthless enemies, exploring themes of civilization versus barbarism and Conan's unique perspective on honor and survival.

Table of Contents:

• 8 - introduction (The Coming of Conan) - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• 9 - Letter to P. Schuyler Miller, March 10, 1936 ("Dear Mr. Miller: / I feel indeed honored...") - essay
• 13 - Letter to Donald Wollheim, date unknown ("Dear Wollheim: Here is something which Two-Gun Bob...") - essay by H. P. Lovecraft
• 15 - The Hyborian Age: Part 1 - [Conan] - short fiction (variant of The Hyborian Age 1938) [as by John D. Clark and Robert E. Howard]
• 17 - The Shadow Kingdom - [Kull of Valusia] - (1929) - novelette
• 57 - The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune - [Kull of Valusia] - (1929) - short story
• 69 - The King and the Oak - [Kull of Valusia] - (1939) - poem
• 82 - An Informal Biography of Conan the Cimmerian - essay by John D. Clark, Ph.D. and P. Schuyler Miller
• 84 - The Tower of the Elephant - [Conan] - (1933) - novelette
• 117 - The God in the Bowl - [Conan] - (1952) - short story
• 140 - Rogues in the House - [Conan] - (1934) - novelette
• 174 - The Frost-Giant's Daughter - [Conan] - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard (variant of The Frost Giant's Daughter)
• 185 - Queen of the Black Coast - [Conan] - (1934) - novelette

Conan the Barbarian is a fictional character created by American writer Robert E. Howard in 1932. He is a warrior of the Hyborian Age, a mythical pre-civilization era imagined by Howard. Known for his incredible strength, intelligence, and resilience, Conan roams a dangerous world as a thief, pirate, and mercenary, often confronting monstrous foes and dark sorcery. While his character epitomizes raw masculinity and survival, he also has a strong sense of honor and justice, which sets him apart from others in his brutal world.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Black Colossus - [Conan] - (1933) - novelette
• 53 - Shadows in the Moonlight - [Conan] - (1934) - novelette
• 93 - A Witch Shall Be Born - [Conan] - (1934) - novelette
• 147 - Shadows in Zamboula - [Conan] - (1935) - novelette
• 187 - The Devil in Iron - [Conan] - (1934) - novelette

The story of Conan is a fabulous adventure of the most famous barbarian-warrior in fiction. His life is a blaze of excitement in the colorful kingdoms of prehistoric legend. In the tumultuous Hyborean Age it was he -- with his mighty deeds -- who most shaped the course of history.

In this book we see Conan still a young man, but with his barbarian days on the wane. Before him stretches his most virile period, for he is a man who thrives on dander, reward -- and romance. Theough it all he can rely on hony one tre friend, his great sword, as often in his hands as by his side.

For all the thrilling episodes within, this book is essentially the story of a remarkable man. "A tall man," author Howard describes him, "mightly shouldered and deep of chest, with a massive corded neck and heavily weighted limbs. His brow was low and broad under a square-cut black mane, his eyes a volcanic blue that smoldered as if with some inner fire. His dark, scarred, almost sinister face was that of a fighting man, an dhis velvet garments could not conceal the hard, dangerous lines of his limbs."

This swiftly paced book is for every reader who enjoys traveling down the paths of exotic adventure.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - The People of the Black Circle - [Conan] - (1934) - novella
• 91 - The Slithering Shadow - [Conan] - (1933) - novelette
• 129 - The Pool of the Black One - [Conan] - (1933) - novelette
• 162 - Red Nails - [Conan] - (1936) - novella
• Map of the World of Conan in the Hyborean Age - (1950) - interior artwork by David A. Kyle

King Conan is a collection of five fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

Table of Contents:

• Map of the World of Conan in the Hyborean Age - (1950) - interior artwork by David A. Kyle [as by David Kyle]
• 7 - Introduction (King Conan) - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• 13 - Jewels of Gwahlur - [Conan] - (1935) - novelette
• 58 - Beyond the Black River - [Conan] - (1935) - novella
• 116 - The Treasure of Tranicos - [Conan] - novella by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard [as]
• 190 - The Phoenix on the Sword - [Conan] - (1932) - novelette
• 215 - The Scarlet Citadel - [Conan] - (1933) - novelette

Here for the first time in book form, is a novel-length adventure of the most famous barbarian-warrior of them all, Coan. The colorful excitement is on another time, in the legendary kingdoms when earth was young.

In his delightfyl introduction, Dr. John D. Clark suggests the reasons for the outstanding success of the late Robert E. Howard's fabulous character of Conan. "Above all," he says, "Hopward was a story-teller. the story came first, last and in between. Somthing is always happening, and the flow of action never hesitates from beginning to end, as one incident flows smoothly and inevitably into the next."

As for Conan himself, "He is the srmored swashbuckler, the hero of all of Howards's heroes, indestructible and irrestible.

"How was a story-teller," Dr. Clark emphasizes. "The tales are the sword-and-cloaker carried to the ultimate limit and a little beyond... the parts of a writer that don't die with his body ar ehis stories -- and Howard's yarns are not going to die for a long time among thos ewho frankly and whil-heartedly like adventure on the grand scale."

Peace had reigned in Aquilonia, but when his beloved Queen Zenobia is stolen before his very eyes, Conan, the great barbarian king, cannot rest until he saves her. And so the most stupendous hero of fantasy-adventure returns to the battlefield, matching his savage strength against the most monstrous forces of evil and doom.

Tales of Conan is a 1955 collection of four fantasy short stories by American writers Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The tales as originally written by Howard were adventure yarns mostly set in the Middle Ages; they were rewritten as Conan stories by de Camp, who also added the fantastic element.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: There'll Always Be a Conan - essay by P. Schuyler Miller
• Ghostly Note - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Blood-Stained God - short story
• Hawks Over Shem - (1955) - novelette
• The Road of the Eagles - (1955) - novelette
• The Flame Knife - novella

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• Letter to P. Schuyler Miller, March 10, 1936 ("Dear Mr. Miller: / I feel indeed honored...") - (1953) - essay by Robert E. Howard
• The Hyborian Age, Part 1 - (1936) - short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• The Thing in the Crypt - short story by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp
• The Tower of the Elephant - (1933) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• The Hall of the Dead - (1967) - novelette by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
• The God in the Bowl - (1952) - short story by Robert E. Howard
• Rogues in the House - (1934) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• The Hand of Nergal - novelette by Robert E. Howard and Lin Carter
• The City of Skulls - short story by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Curse of the Monolith - (1968) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
• The Bloodstained God - (1955) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard
• The Frost Giant's Daughter - (1953) - short story by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
• The Lair of the Ice Worm - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
• Queen of the Black Coast - (1934) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• The Vale of Lost Women - (1967) - short story by Robert E. Howard
• The Castle of Terror - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
• The Snout in the Dark - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard and Lin Carter

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1968) - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• Hawks Over Shem - (1955) - novelette by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
• Black Colossus - (1933) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• Shadows in the Moonlight - (1934) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• The Road of the Eagles - (1955) - novelette by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
• A Witch Shall Be Born - (1934) - novelette by Robert E. Howard

Conan the Wanderer is a 1968 collection of four fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• Black Tears - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
• Shadows in Zamboula - (1935) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• The Devil in Iron - (1934) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• The Flame Knife - (1955) - novella by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• The People of the Black Circle - (1934) - novella by Robert E. Howard
• The Slithering Shadow - (1933) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• Drums of Tombalku - novelette by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
• The Pool of the Black One - (1933) - novelette by Robert E. Howard

The hunt for a beautiful princess and a king's treasure bring Conan to the edge of the world, where he must battle the hell-fed powers of the sorcerer Thoth-Ammon.

Meet Conan, the gigantic adventurer from Cimmeria -- and discover one of the greatest thrills in modern fiction! Here he is at the peak of his exciting career as a mighty warrior in exotic, barbaric lands. Three stunning adventures: Red Nails, Jewels of Gwahlur, and Beyond the black River.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• Red Nails - (1936) - novella
• Jewels of Gwahlur - (1935) - novelette
• Beyond the Black River - (1935) - novella

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Treasure of Tranicos - (1953) - novelette by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
• Wolves Beyond the Border - novelette by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
• The Phoenix on the Sword - (1932) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• The Scarlet Citadel - (1933) - novelette by Robert E. Howard

In this epic, Conan fights to recover the throne of Aquilonia from Nemedian invaders aided by the Acheronian wizard Xaltoltun.

Table of Contetns

• Introduction - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Return of Conan - (1957) - novel by Björn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp
• The Hyborian Age - (1936) - short fiction by Robert E. Howard

A vengeful Conan journeys from the dark forests of Gunderland to the ends of the earth in pursuit of Thoth-Amon and the evil wizards of the Black King who killed his son.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Witch of the Mists - (1972) - novelette
• Black Sphinx of Nebthu - (1973) - novelette
• Red Moon of Zembabwei - (1974) - novelette
• Shadows in the Skull - (1975) - novelette

As thief, pirate, mercenary, adventurer, chief of barbarous tribes and general in the armies of kings, Conan had ventured far and known adventure and marvel. But the adventure that started here, in the royal hall of justice in Tarantia was to be the strangest and most fantastic of all.

His life imperiled by the mistrust of a mad King, a haunted by the armies of every nation of the Hyborian Age, the mighty Cimmerian, Conan, in the small band of loyal followers flee to the grim Hayek's of the unmapped Ilbars Mountains, in search of a stronghold that they can make their own. Instead they find the midnight evil of the legendary Magus of the sons of Yezm and his assassin followers... And an even blacker horror spawned by the very hills themselves...

Rewritten edition of the 1955 novella of the same name.

CONAN in all his glory!

Amid the treachery of pirates, the intrigue of a doomed count, the fury of savage Picts, the flashing eyes and flowing hair of beautiful women, fierce swordplay and the deadly vengeance of a black magician, the greatest her Hyboria has ever known picks his way like a clever and deadly hunting cat. For Conan knows what he wants - and what he must do to get The Treasure of Tranicos.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - L. Sprague de Camp
• The Treasure of Tranicos - Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
• The Trail of Tranicos - an essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• Skald in the Post Oaks - an essay by L. Sprague de Camp

Nominated in 2014 for the 1939 Retro Hugo Award.

"Pigeons from Hell" is a short story by Robert E. Howard written in late 1934 and published posthumously in 1938. The story title derives from an image present in many of Howard's grandmother's ghost stories, that of an old deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons.

The story originally appeared in Weird Tales, May 1938. It has been reprinted many times and can be found in the anthologies:

• The Horror Hall of Fame (1991), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg
• Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2011), edited by Otto Penzler
• The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950 (2012), edited by John Pelan

The story is included in the collections:

• The Book of Robert E. Howard (1976)
• Pigeons from Hell (1976)
• Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors (1987)
• The Black Stranger And Other American Tales (2005)
• The Haunter of the Rings & Other Tales (2007)
• The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: Grim Lands (2007)
• The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard (2008)

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.

The mightiest barbarian returns in an all new illustrated adventure, matching wits with a Black Magician to regain the Eye Of Erlik - and his very soul.

See Robert E. Howard's gorgeous world of enchantment, swordplay, glittering jewels, beautiful women, danger and passion come alive in this lushly illustrated book! This is the first new Conan adventure in years!

CONAN IS BACK!

Robert E. Howard's CONAN was never so lusty, never so deadly as in this new adventure chronicling the early years when the youthful sword-wielder first rode out of the Cimmerian hills and into the broad, savage world, turning from smith's son to Conan the mercenary.

Imprisoned by sorcery, bound by an impetuous pledge of loyalty, the greatest hero of them all battles for the greatest treasure of them all - his very soul! Only the dark eyed, sultry ruler of Khauran, Land of Unhappy Queens, can shatter the mirror which holds his ensorceled soul prisoner - but to do that she must shatter also her only hope of happiness in the arms of her demon lover.

Born in the fires of battle, Conan of Cimmeria lost his father and village when they were slaughtered by the cruel warlord Khalar Zym. Wandering the world alone, Conan was forged into a peerless warrior by hardship and bloodshed.

Years later, he crosses paths with Zym and his armies. But before Conan can exact vengeance, he must contend with the warlord's daughter-the seductive witch Marique-and a host of monstrous creatures. Only then will Conan's quest bring him face to face with Zym in an epic battle to avenge his people and save the world.

Conan is still less than 20 years old and new to the snares and enticements of civilization. He joins forces with Karela, a dangerously seductive female bandit, to storm the palace of a deadly necromancer, Amanar, and confront the dreaded Eater of Souls.

As revolution brews in the shadowy streets of Belverus, Conan braves the traps and treacheries of the Royal Palace of the Dragon. Pursued by the luscious and shameless Sularia, the mighty warrior challenges a magic-spawned menace that cannot die; the invincible Simulacrum of Albanus.

Conan defies the sorcerous power of the Cult of Doom for the sake of a beautiful young woman known only as Yasbet. From the glory of fabled Aghrapur, capital of Turan, to the demon-haunted wastes of the Blasted Lands, Conan proves himself the greatest hero of a bygone era of high adventure.

Ensnared in a web of sorcery and lust by the voluptuous Lady Synelle, his life under double threat from the unscrupulous female bandit and the power-hungry Antimides, the stupendous Cimmerian fearlessly leads his Free-Company of Mercenaries against the demonic, demented Al'Kiir, the horned God whose gory rituals demand the sacrifice of innocent maidens and intrepid warriors alike!

Amid the savage crags of the Kezankian Mountains, Conan is stalked by the sultry huntress Jondra, sought by the lovely thief Tamira, and caught between the Army of Zamora and Brythunian warriors seeking revenge. The mighty Cimmerian must battle hordes of Kezankian hillmen, face the sorcerous evil of Basrakan Imalla, and finally, slay that which cannot be slain: the beast of fire. To conquer, to survive, he must be...Conan the Magnificent

In the fabled city of Shadizar, sultry Princess Tamaris hires Conan to recover the magical gem known as the Heart of Ahriman. Accompanied by the beautiful maiden Jehnna, Conan must vanquish scheming, murderous Bombatta, the princess' henchman, and face the sinister Guardians of the Horn, only to confrotnt the foul and ancient, many-fanged demon-god Dagoth. With Jehna's life and Conan's very soul at stake, Conan must truly be Conan the Destroyer.

In the fabled, mysterious land of Vendhya, Conan seeks an antidote to the unknown poison that threatens his life. Entangled in the intrigues of Karim Singh, advisor to the King of Vendhya, pursued by the voluptuous noblewoman Vyndra, threatened by the evil mage Naipal, Conan has yet to conquer the most terrifying adversaries of his life--the Sivani, demon-guardians of the ancient tombs of Vendhyan kings. To survive, he must be Conan the Victorious.

In his native Cimmeria, Conan discovers foreign sorcerers defiling the most sacred place in the land as they struggle for the power to command the very gods. As ancient blood-enemies of his people invade, Conan must unite the ever-feuding clans to face an even greater foe... Demons ride to war on the slopes of Ben Morgh.

Conan of Cimmeria, mightiest hero of the Hyborian Age, finds his journey interrupted in the Corinthian city-state of Mornstadinos. All Conan wants is to travel on, but he finds himself pledged to protect Eldia, a girl-child who controls the Fire Elementals, from the fell designs of Sovartus, evil Mage of the Black Square. Through a maze of sorcerous intrigue and deadly treachery the Cimmerian pads, and around him the hunters gather.

Djuvula, half-demon witch, who will watch Conan die for a thousand years. Lemparius, high in the councils of the city, who stalks the night in the guise of a huge panther. Loganaro, thief, spy, murderer: his only god is gold, and at that altar he would sacrifice the world. In the heart of the maze they will fight the final battle, when the fate of the gods themselves stands or falls with the one called Conan the Fearless.

Conan joins a mercenary band working for Prince Ivor who seeks to usurp his Uncle Strabonus. When Ivor unexpectedly reconciles with his uncle, he determines to kill the mercenaries rather than pay them.

In the ancient land of Shem, Conan joins with tomb-robbers to loot the untold wealth piled up in the huge royal mausoleum, yet so simple a decision enmeshes the mighty Cimmerian in intrigues and danger on every side.

Stranded in the furthest northern reaches of Brythunia, Conan the Cimmerian pledges himself as the champion of the haughty, beautiful Queen Alcuina. Soon the mighty barbarian is enmeshed in a war with two kings, who want Alcuina's lands, and the evil wizard Iilma, who plots to rule the entire northland and has his own foul designs on the queen's body. From the blood-drenched snows of the Brythunian forests to the sorcerous Shifting Lands the battles rage. The dead rise to slay, and victory can only come from Conan the Champion

Before avenging a friend's death, the youthful Conan must battle undead warriors and Men With No Eyes--two formidable factions seeking the Source of Light, a talisman that can make Neg the Malefic unconquerable or destroy him forever.

In the fabled lands far beyond the Vilayet Sea, Conan of Cimmeria faces his most deadly challenge. The warlord Bartatua plans to unite the Hyrkanian tribes and sweep across the world in conquest, while the Turanian wizard Khondemir plots to use Bartatua's ambition to further his sorcerous schemes. Ishkala, haughty Princess of Sogaria, and Lakhme, seductress and spy, weave their own intrigues as the power of gods is drawn to the City of Mounds, ancient necropolis of the Hyrkanians. Every hand is turned against Conan, and he can only be Conan the Marauder.

In the ancient land of Nemedia, Conan of Cimmeria agrees to impersonate Baron Eihnarson's son and heir in order to escape a foul prison cell--at least until he can escape completely, with a pouch full of gold. Calissa, the Baron's sensuous daughter, has other plans for Conan, as does Evadne, the voluptuous rebel maiden. Palace intrigues swirl--poison in the cup and the assassin's dagger in the dark--and Conan must lead the army of Diander against the Cult of the Snake, the demon which burns and slays all whom it does not concert to half-serpent slaves of an ancient evil. In mouldering tombs the dead Lords of Einharson stir, and rise to strike down any who would threaten their line.

In the Ibar Mountains the necromancer Eremius is raising a demon-spawned army, using in of the fabled Jewels of Kurag. Snared in the court intrigues of Aghrapur, trapped by Lord Misrak, the King's deadly master of spies, Conan of Cimmeria must ride to comfort Ermius, accompanies against his will by the sorceress Illyanan. But Illyana herself carries the second Jewel, and whoever possesses both will gain power to challenge the gods. Plots and treachery loom at Conan's back, but those who seek to catch him in their web do not know that they face Conan of Cimmeria, Conan the Valiant.

In the steaming jungles of Venji, Conan of Cimmeria fights in a war seemingly without end, a war against drug-crazed raiders who strike without warning and vanish like smoke, a war against the implacable wizard, Mojourna. Yet his enemies are not only those he can see.

The intrigues of the powerful court eunuchs reach south from Imperial Aghrapur, and the plottings of generals who would sit on the throne, and even the conjurings of his own mind, will be turned against him.

Only one man could survive. Only one man could triumph. Only Conan the Hero.

When his would-be bride and her family are savagely killed by Taharka of Keshan, the young Conan of Cimmeria vows his unrelenting revenge. From the fighting pits of Croton to the plains of Ophir, Conan pursues Taharka to a battle to the death.

Conan of Cimmeria, who swaggered into the civilized lands as a youthful warrior with a strong sword and arm, has now used that sword to take a kingdom. He is King Conan of Aquilonia, but armies--led by a bloodthirsty, long-forgotten god--march to pull him down.

In a buried land of huge, blind carnivorous apes, deadly ten-foot Cyclops and monstrous flesh-eating worms, Conan seeks only to stay alive long enough to find his way out of this dark underground world of caverns and buried seas.

Fate tosses the dice for Conan of Cimmeria, and they come up...death. Dimma, the Mist Mage, knows nothing of the muscular Cimmerian, but the vile necromancer's plans require his death. Thayla, beautiful Queen of the Pili, would rather take Conan to her bed, but her own plots mean he must die. The sorcerous changeling Kleg wasn't only to do his master's bidding, but Conan stands in his way. Even the lovely Cheen will let nothing stop her from recovering the sacred Talisman of her people.

The game is deadly, the stakes are life, but whatever the risks, Conan of Cimmeria will play until the final toss.

A chance meeting with giants. A brush with the murderous Varg. A run-in with a treacherous hedge-wizard, complete with socery-twisted henchmen. Conan thought he was just passing through on his way to the wicked delights of fabled Shadizar, but others have different plans, some of which might leave the young Cimmerian dead. He really did not need to attract the attentions of two women at once, and neither of them entirely human. This time he may not survive.

In ancient Argos, fabled city by the sea, Conan of Cimmeria discovers that behind a facade of law, the intrigues of trading houses can be no less deadly than the wars he had left behind. Even a merchant prince can dabble with sorcery, and the schemes of event he most beautiful nobles can lay snares for unwary feet.

But those who think to use the Cimmerian, to brush him aside and grasp what he has sworn to protect, will discover that they face no ordinary man. He is--Conan the Guardian.

The ancient hierarchs of the desert city of Qjara did not want the young man called Conan of Cimmeria inside their walls with his strange, northland ways.He did not even worship the One True Goddess. yet some would ensnare him in the city's intrigues: the beautiful Princess Afrianda, with powers she does not fully understand herself, and Zaius, foremost swordsman of the Temple warriors. Their paths are like nothing Conan has seen before, following labyrinthine trails he cannot imagine, thrusting him toward banishment or death. And in the dying city of Sark, the soulless High Priest Khumanos wields the legendary Sword of Onothimantos and schemes for the return of ancient gods.

Qjara does not want Conan, but only one man can prevent the sacrifice of the city to the Tree of Mouths. Only one-- Conan the Outcast.

Everyone in the corrupt city of Sicas wants the priceless treasure Conan of Cimmeria has come there to find. Beautiful women who offer smiles, kisses--and maybe a knife in the back. A priest who may be closer to his goddess than he thinks. Noble lords, and the bosses of criminal gangs, and a fop whose perfumed kerchief may hide poison.

All are willing to kill for the artifact, but none realize the horror in can unleash, a hellish menace that only one man can face... Conan: The Rogue.

At first all Conan wanted was the width of a path through the Border Kingdom, that northern land full of bandits and brawling and sorcery. But that was before he encountered Raihna, a swordswoman as beautiful as she was dangerous. She alone is reason enough to pause a while in his journey. But the rebellion against King Eloikas, whom Raihna now serves, tears the land apart, and in the Vale of Pougoi, the dreaded Star Brothers have renewed their ancient, forbidden thaumaturgies--and summoned an insatiable creature from the depths of time.

The Star Brothers cannot believe that one man can stand against their power, but they have reckoned without Conan of Cimmeria....

After a gambling dispute erupts into violence and death, Conan of Cimmeria is condemned to the hellish mine pits of Brythunia where no man has ever escaped--or survived. But Conan breaks free and disappears into the wilderness, far from civilization, and into the eager arms of Songa, a forest maiden. Still the demon-goddess Ninga has seized control of Brythunia and her insatiable appetite for human sacrifice threatens to devour the world. Only one man can strike at the very heart of Ninga's religion of blood. A man who carries death in his eyes.

Sailing under the grim skull-jack flag of the Red Brotherhood, Conan is the most feared pirate to prowl the Vilayet Sea, claiming as hi booty even Philiope, the beautiful black-haired daughter of a powerful nobleman. But in the domed imperial palace of Aghrapur, the decadent Emperor Yildiz and his corrupt allies plot the destruction of the powerful barbarian the know only as Amra the Lion.

As Conan carves a pirate empire with cutlass and dagger, the Turanian navy takes to the seas, aided by hellish sorcery of the darkest sort. Mighty ships manned by undead zombies, and a titanic monster summoned from the nether depths, are pitted against the deadly sword of one man... Conan of the Red Brotherhood.

Fleeing the sorcerous destruction of a long-lost city, Conan fights side-by-side with Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, that notorious and voluptuous she-pirate. Pursued by deadly spies and assassins, the Cimmerian and Valeria find themselves caught squarely in the front ranks of a bloody and savage war. But greater peril lurks in the shadow of a vast and forbidding mountain, where the Spirit Speaker wage occult battle with God-Men, who can read the future--and summon a Living Wind that consumes the soul even as it destroys the flesh.

Even a sword powered by barbarian might is of little use against spirits, much less against great beings of the elder dark, but the final struggle for survival will come down ton... Conan and the Gods of the Mountain.

Conan of the Cimmeria is hired by three strangers, two men and a woman, to find the woman's husband. But the real goal, Conan discovers, is the fabled wealth of Python. To survive, he must put his trust in his own wits and his skill with the sword, for even the best can be corrupted when faced with the treasure of Python.

It all began when Conan bought the jeweled bracelet from the Zamoran thief. It would, Conan thought, make the perfect gift for his lady of the moment, Yvanna. But this was no ordinary bauble - it had been taken from the King of Brythunia's only daughter... the daughter who had been cruelly murdered only days before. Cursing his luck, Conan sets off to find the real killers in order to save himself from the executioner's ax. And blunders into a deadly web of palace intrigue masterminded by the Mutare, those ancient priests and priestesses dedicated to the vilest evils and the enslavement of all men.

Even Conan's mighty muscles, potent instincts and extraordinary luck might not seem enough - even Conan might need the help of the gods themselves!

Conan, hailed and feared as chief of the pirate brotherhood, has built an island kingdom on the stormy waters of the Vilayet. He plays off one mainland empire against another amid the stirrings of a sorcerous war that will set the sea aboil with blood. The lure of ancient treasure draws Conan into a trap woven by the arch-wizard Croyalus.

Treasure beyond imagining waited in the temple of Ahriman, a god so evil and terrifying that even the despicable priests of Set aided in his banishment. None dared to steal the treasure--until Conan the Cimmerian came to Shapur.

Now he must smuggle tons of gold and jewels past the city guards and escape to a place of safety, while pursued by the most efficient and dangerous band of manhunters ever assembled, led by a warrior whose skills and ferocity rival Conan himself.

But great dangers lurk when Conan returns to the temple--and the priests of Ahriman conspire to bring their fearsome deity back into the world....

No son of Cimmeria ever spent much time mourning what was gone forever... but Conan has never before lost a woman such as Belit, the fierce pirate queen. So great is his grief that the mighty barbarian disappears into the wild green depths of the Black Coat. But Conan cannot hide himself from adventure for long!

When Conan puts Roganthus the Strongman out of commission in a street brawl he soon finds himself drawn in by the slender Sathilda and her pet panther as part of a travelling troupe. What starts as an innocent pastime turns into a deadly game when the circus is called to the Arena of the Stygian capital of Luxor. There they are forced to fight for their lives against exotic warriors and all manner of wild beasts. no one has yet survived the whims of the tyrannical Emperor Commodorus.

And then there are the foul sorceries of the black-robed priests of the snake-god Set...

Roaming the hills of Brythunia Conan comes face to face with a legend--Achilea, once Queen of a tribe of savage women, is a consummate warrior, as fierce as she is beautiful. Together they set out to uncover the riches of the long-lost Janagar, a mighty city that stood tall for five thousand years. It was abandoned by its people, who fled on one strange night, never to return. Treasure hunters beware! Deadly horrors are waiting for Conan and Achilea deep in the bowels of Janagar.

Ancient Evil is stirring deep in the heart of the Kezankian Mountains. A powerful sorceress known as the Lady of the Mists has revived ancient Acheronian magic, and along with her warrior Maidens she is terrorizing the local villagers. She is supremely skilled in demonic rites and savagely executes those few who dare oppose her.

When Conan rides into the Mountains with a handful of his followers he will face one of his most daunting challenges ever. He must confront an insidious curse and battle fierce warrior women, until the Kezankian Mountains are cleansed forever of the Mists of Doom.

One wizard is bad. Two are a disaster... And a deadly disaster, too. For Conan, after refusing to help the evil wizard Ethram-Fal, has been cursed with a spell that is slowly, inexorably squeezing the life from his mighty frame.

The only person who can banish the spell--besides Ethram-Fal, of course--is the sorceress Zelandra: a raven-haired beauty who practices only white magic... or so she says. Zelandra has offered to lift the spell from the Cimmerian, if only he will do her one small service: steal the deadly Emerald Lotus from the clutches of Ethram-Fal in his impregnable desert fortress.

No good can come of this, Conan thinks to himself. Once sorcery gets mixed up in it, the whole job goes to hell!

Unfortunately, he's right.

Nightmares come to life when Conan falls victim to the insidious curse of a dying shaman. Conan realizes that something deeper is at work when his nights are filled with horrific dreams of bloodshed that threaten to drive him mad. Now, Conan will need all his might--wits as sharp as his sword--to break free from the Shaman's nefarious hex.

When Queen Rufia entreats the Cinnerian to save her city from the undead with Zeriti's spell, the mighty warrior must strive to overcome his dread of the supernatural. For to undo the hex he must journey through the nightmare world of the dead. There lies the Silver Lotus, the only antidote tothe nefarious incantation. But thee also dwells the witch's bloodthirsty lover, who Conan must defeat should he wish to return to the world of the living.

Tales there are of ancient Nithia, a city buried in the sand for countless generations. And there is a statues, it is whispered, in a building in these forbidden ruins, carved from an impossibly huge pearl: the treasure of a lifetime.

This is Conan's quest--the treasure with which he can achieve anything.

But others have heard the whispers that tell of the statue, this Grim Grey God: Jade, the mysterious empress of the thieves' guild; Toj, the most deadly assassin of Hyborea; and two of the most dangerous necromancers alive. These last seek the statue not for it fortune, but for its power--the power to end the reign of light and begin the rule of darkness. Only Conan dares to stand against them....

But he is too late?

Few places are as desolate as the Thanza Mountains on the border of Nemedia and Aqilonia. few area are so remote, so dangerous, or so inaccessible... which is why Conan chose these mountains as the perfect spot in the world for Conan to be.

Unfortunately, it is the single worst spot in the world for Conan to be.

Bandits and sorcerers--and worse--inhabit this lonely realm. Worst of all, it is the home of the Soul of Thanza. He who possesses the Soul will become the Death Lord--a post unfilled for many thousands of years. If the Death Lord should come into his full power, mountains will move, seas will be pushed back, the earth itself will shiver, and dead men will rise to fight again.

No army of puny humans will be able to stand against the Death lord. Only one man would even dare to try--Conan the Cimmerian!

Conan faces indestructible foes and joins a blood-soaked rebellion in this thrilling epic fantasy adventure.

Facing the gallows for defending his honor by killing the captain of the guard, the mighty Conan jumps feet first into a rescue attempt of one of his fellow prisoners. When Conan learns his rescuers are the daring Rebels of the White Rose, he joins their bloody insurrection.

But Conan's struggles are only beginning, for the road to the throne is defended by the Final Guard--indestructible warriors made of stone. With steel in hand, Conan must battle these indomitable foes and pray that Krom will guide his blade strong and true.

Conan: Road of Kings is an action-packed epic fantasy novel by acclaimed author Karl Edward Wagner. Filled with intense battles, daring rebellions, and the indomitable spirit of its iconic hero, this thrilling adventure will captivate fans of epic fantasy series.

A grand adventure of the mighty thewed barbarian, from one of Fantasy's biggest names

Conan, The name has inspired generations, one that resounds through time immemorial. Yet it all began with a handful of stories from Robert E. Howard. In the decades since, there have been feature films, television and comic book series, and numerous spin-off novels. In 1979, Poul Anderson—winner of a staggering eight Hugo and three Nebula Awards—wrote what is regarded as one of the finest adventures in the canon of Conan:

Conan the Rebel.

Conan the barbarian and Belit, his raven-haired beauty, lead a band of savage pirates striving to free Belit's people from the iron grip of an evil reptile god and its cruel minions. Striking at the heart of tyranny, Conan must break the chains of oppression before eternal darkness claims them all.

Conan is back, and at the top of his form!

SFWA Grand Master L. Sprague de Camp was revered in the genre of fantasy for both his fiction and nonfiction. Booklist praised his novel The Honorable Barbarian, saying: "The action is brisk, and the worlds and characters are described with de Camp's deft, light touch... thoroughly agreeable entertainment," while Kirkus Reviews said of The Pixilated Peeress "the unassuming style and verve of the telling keep the pages turning. Pure prose junk-food."

But more important, L. Sprague de Camp wrote Dark Valley Destiny, the definitive biography of Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard, leaving little wonder as to why Conan and the Spider God is considered one of the finest novels in the canon of Conan.

Son of a blacksmith, a former slave and thief, Conan the Cimmerian has risen to the rank of Captain of the Royal Guard. But as usual, trouble is his bedfellow.

Forced to kill while defending himself, Conan must flee the vengeance of the High Priest of Erlik. Foraging through field and forest, meeting friend and foe, Conan cuts a bloody swath through assassins and bounty hunters all the way to the sinister temple of Zath, where he encounters the huge and hideous Spider God. Facing certain death, Conan becomes both the hunter... and the hunted. Conan and the Spider God is a thrilling adventure of the mighty barbarian, from one of the genre's most revered authors.

With the beautiful and fierce Isparana at his side, Conan must cross a brutal and deadly desert in order to deliver their precious cargo-a magical amulet known as the Eye of Erlik. But rather than collecting untold riches for their rare treasure, they are betrayed by a ruthless tyrant and his evil mage.

Conan has faced many mortal dangers, perils of magic and perils of steel. But when the treacherous prestidigitator unleashes the bloodthirsty Sword of Skelos, a weapon of both magic and steel-a sword that can fight on its own-Conan faces one of his most dire challenges.

How will Conan survive this battle, when there is no foe to slay?

Aquilonia, once the proudest land in all of Hyboria, has fallen under the tyrannical reign of a mad king. As his brutal insanity sweeps the land, only one man dares stand against him: Conan the barbarian.

Conan becomes the leader of an army of rebels, brave warriors who thought their battles would be fought with spear and sword, axe and dagger. In this they were mistaken, for their greatest foe is not the army of Aquilonia, but the vile sorcerer Thulandra Thuu.

Dark clouds loom ahead for the people of Aquilonia, and only Conan can save them.

The iconic hero of the Hyborian Age returns in this volume of classic fantasy adventure stories.

Sometime after the fall of Atlantis, a great hero was born on a battlefield, destined to defend his people against angry gods and merciless demons. His name was Conan, and his exploits are legend.

This volume collects eight classic Conan stories and an essay on the work of Conan creator Robert E. Howard. These stories from renowned fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, and co-written with Lin Carter and Bjorn Nyberg, relaunched Conan as a popular hero in the 1970s.

Table of Contents:

• 8 - Conan the Swordsman (map) - interior artwork by Ellisa Mitchell
• 11 - The Conan Saga - (1978) - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• 21 - Legions of the Dead - (1978) - short story by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp
• 42 - The People of the Summit - (1978) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Björn Nyberg?
• 56 - Shadows in the Dark - (1978) - short story by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp
• 82 - The Star of Khorala - (1978) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Björn Nyberg?
• 109 - The Gem in the Tower - (1978) - novelette by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp
• 134 - The Ivory Goddess - (1978) - short story by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp
• 155 - Moon of Blood - (1978) - short story by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp
• 190 - Hyborian Names - (1978) - essay by L. Sprague de Camp

A new Conan adventure--Conan of Venarium--from one of today's most popular writers of fantasy and science fiction, Harry Turtledove!

For decades, millions of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Conan, the barbarian adventurer invented by Robert E. Howard and further chronicled by other fantasy greats, including such notables as L. Sprague de Camp, Poul Anderson, and Robert Jordan.

Now Harry Turtledove, one of today's most popular writers of fantasy and SF, contributes a novel to the Conan saga--a tale of Conan in his youth, in the year or so before he becomes the wandering adventurer we know from the tales of Howard and others.

On the verge of adulthood, he lives in a Cimmerian hamlet, caring for his ailing mother, working in his father's smithy, and casting his eye on the weaver's daughter next door.
Then war comes: an invasion by the Aquilonian Empire. Conan burns to join the fight, but he's deemed too young. Then, from the border country, comes an unbelievable report: The Aquilonians have smashed the Cimmerian defending forces, and can rule as they please. Soon their heavily garrisoned forts dot the countryside. Their settlers follow after, carving homesteads out of other men's land.

Every Cimmerian longs to drive the intruders out with fire and sword, but they must stay their hands, for the Aquilonians have promised savage reprisals. Then, intolerably, the Aquilonian commander takes a wholly dishonorable interest in the weaver's daughter -- and he's not a man to wait, or even ask permission.

It's not a recipe for a peaceable outcome.

This is scientific romance about a disenchanted gold maker who has discovered a way to turn lead into solid gold and uses his wealth to help people. But when he sees that his philanthropic activities don't benefit anyone, he becomes disillusioned.

Raffles Haw, a mysterious millionaire, moves to Staffordshire, England amid much gossip and speculation such is the grandeur of his new home. Upon his arrival, Haw befriends the McIntyre family. McIntyre senior was a wealthy gun merchant before going bankrupt and losing his sanity. But this is only the start of the mysterious family's tale and the deadly secrets they hold close.

The story of Conan, the huge Cimmerian who slashed his way through the exotic realms of the Hyborian Age, in the dim reaches of man's prehistoric past, eventually making himself King of Aquilonia, the greatest and riches of the Hyborian lands, is the core of this book on Robert Howard.

An exciting account of a jungle expedition’s encounter with living dinosaurs, written with the same panache exhibited in the author’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This 1912 novel, the first installment of the Professor Challenger series, follows an eccentric paleontologist and his companions into the wilds of the Amazon, where they discover iguanodons, pterodactyls, and savage ape-people.

Professor Challenger sends telegrams asking his three companions from The Lost World - Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee - to join him at his home outside of London and to bring a tank of oxygen. When they arrive, they are ushered into a sealed room, along with Challenger and his wife. In the course of his research, Challenger has predicted that the Earth is about to come into contact with a belt of poisonous ether, which will cause the end of humanity. Can they survive?

"The Poison Belt" is the second story in the Professor Challenger series. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, "The Poison Belt" would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s.

The 'Land of Mist' is the third novel in Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Professor Challenger' series. The first was written in 1912 and is entitled 'The Lost World', describing an expedition to a plateau in South America where dinosaurs still survive. Then in 1913 he wrote 'The Poison Belt', describing a disaster as the earth passes through a cloud of poisonous ether. Finally, in 1926 'The Land of Mist', which is heavily influenced by Doyle's growing belief in Spiritualism after a number of his close relatives died. It is therefore seem as semi-autobiographical, Challenger and Conan Doyle both grieving men and both interested in Spirituality.

Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become kingof 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 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.

Table of Contents:

• The Hyborian Age - (1936)
• The Tower of the Elephant - (1933)
• The Hall of the Dead (Synopsis) - (1976)
• The God in the Bowl - (1952)
• Rogues in the House - (1934)
• The Hand of Nergal - (1976)
• The Frost-Giant's Daughter - (1976)
• Queen of the Black Coast - (1934)
• The Vale of Lost Women - (1967)
• The Snout in the Dark (Draft) - (1979)
• Black Colossus - (1933)
• Shadows in the Moonlight - (1934)
• A Witch Shall Be Born - (1934)
• Shadows in Zamboula - (1935)
• The Devil in Iron - (1934)
• The People of the Black Circle - (1934)
• The Slithering Shadow - (1933)
• Drums of Tombalku (Draft) - (1986)
• The Pool of the Black One - (1933)
• Afterword: Robert E. Howard and Conan: The Early Years - essay by Stephen Jones

The second volume, completing the definitive collection of Conan stories, featuring the most distinctive and well known fantasy hero of all time.

Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become kingof 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 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.

Table of Contents:

• Notes on Various People of the Hyborian Age - (1977) - essay by Julian May
• Red Nails - (1936)
• Jewels of Gwahlur - (1935)
• Beyond the Black River - (1935)
• The Black Stranger - (1987)
• Wolves Beyond the Border (Draft) - (2000)
• The Phoenix on the Sword - (1932)
• The Scarlet Citadel - (1933)
• The Hour of the Dragon - (1977) - novel
• The Hour of the Dragon - (1969) - poem
• Cimmeria - (1965) - poem
• Afterword: Robert E. Howard and Conan: The Final Years - essay by Stephen Jones

Table of Contents:

• 3 - Conan - (1967) - anthology by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard
• 189 - Conan of Cimmeria - (1969) - anthology by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard
• 373 - Conan the Freebooter - (1968) - collection by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard

Table of Contents:

• Conan the Adventurer - (1966) - collection by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard
• Conan the Wanderer - (1968) - anthology by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard
• Conan the Buccaneer - (1971) - novel by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp

The most beautiful Conan books there is! The first volume was published in 2002, first in the United Kingdom by Wandering Star Books under the title Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933), and the following year in the United States by Ballantine/Del Rey under the present title. The Science Fiction Book Club subsequently reprinted the complete set in hardcover; the set is noted for presenting the original, unedited versions of Howard's Conan tales. This volume includes thirteen short stories as well as miscellanea for Howard fans and enthusiasts (e.g., drafts, notes, maps, etc.), and is illustrated by noted comic book artist Mark Schultz.

The texts for this edition were based on Howard's original typescripts or the first published appearance if a typescript was unavailable.

Table of Contents:

• A1 - Hyborian Genesis: Notes on the Creation of the Conan Stories - essay by Patrice Louinet
• A25 - Notes on the Conan Typescripts and the Chronology (Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-33)) - essay by Patrice Louinet
• A31 - Notes on the Original Howard Texts (Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-33)) - essay by uncredited
• Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-33) - (2002) - interior artwork by Mark Schultz
• i - Foreword (Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-33)) - essay by Mark Schultz
• v - Introduction (Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-33)) - essay by Patrice Louinet
• 1 - Cimmeria - (1965) - poem
• 5 - The Phoenix on the Sword - [Conan] - (1932) - novelette
• 29 - The Frost-Giant's Daughter - [Conan] - (1976) - short story
• 39 - The God in the Bowl - [Conan] - (1952) - short story
• 59 - The Tower of the Elephant - [Conan] - (1933) - novelette
• 83 - The Scarlet Citadel - [Conan] - (1933) - novelette
• 119 - Queen of the Black Coast - [Conan] - (1934) - novelette
• 151 - Black Colossus - [Conan] - (1933) - novelette
• 185 - Iron Shadows in the Moon - [Conan] - (1934) - novelette (variant of Shadows in the Moonlight)
• 217 - Xuthal of the Dusk - [Conan] - (1933) - novelette (variant of The Slithering Shadow)
• 249 - The Pool of the Black One - [Conan] - (1933) - novelette
• 277 - Rogues in the House - [Conan] - (1934) - novelette
• 301 - The Vale of Lost Women - [Conan] - (1967) - short story
• 319 - The Devil in Iron - [Conan] - (1934) - novelette
• 351 - The Phoenix on the Sword (first submitted draft) - novelette
• 375 - Notes on Various Peoples of the Hyborian Age - essay
• 379 - The Hyborian Age - [Conan] - (1938) - short fiction
• 399 - Untitled Synopsis ("A squad of Zamorian soldiers...") - (1974) - short fiction
• 401 - The Scarlet Citadel (synopsis) - short fiction
• 403 - Black Colossus (synopsis) - short fiction
• 405 - Untitled Fragment ("The battlefield stretched silent...") - short fiction
• 407 - Untitled Synopsis ("The setting: The city of Shumballa...") - short fiction
• 409 - Untitled Draft ("Amboola awakened slowly...") - short story
• 417 - Hyborian Names and Countries - essay
• 421 - Hyborian Age Maps - interior artwork

The most beautiful Conan books there is! The second volume was published in 2032, first in the United Kingdom by Wandering Star Books under the title Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933), and the following year in the United States by Ballantine/Del Rey under the title 'The Bloody Crown of Conan'. The Science Fiction Book Club subsequently reprinted the complete set in hardcover; the set is noted for presenting the original, unedited versions of Howard's Conan tales. This volume includes the only Conan novel and three short stories as well as miscellanea for Howard fans and enthusiasts and is illustrated by noted artist Gary Gianni.

The texts for this edition were based on Howard's original typescripts or the first published appearance if a typescript was unavailable.

Table of Contents:

• A1 - Hyborian Genesis Part II: Notes on the Creation of the Conan Stories - essay by Patrice Louinet
• A15 - Notes on the Conan Typescripts and the Chronology (The Bloody Crown of Conan) - essay by Patrice Louinet
• The Bloody Crown of Conan - interior artwork by Gary Gianni
• A17 - Notes on the Original Howard Texts (Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume Two (1934)) - essay by uncredited
• i - Foreword (Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume Two (1934)) - essay by Gary Gianni
• iii - Introduction (Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume Two (1934)) - essay by Rusty Burke
• 1 - The People of the Black Circle - [Conan] - (1934) - novella
• 81 - The Hour of the Dragon - [Conan] - (1977) - novel (variant of Conan the Conqueror: The Hyborean Age 1950)
• 255 - A Witch Shall Be Born - [Conan] - (1934) - novelette
• 305 - The People of the Black Circle (synopsis) - short fiction
• 309 - The Story Thus Far... - (1934) - short fiction
• 311 - Untitled Synopsis ("Amalric a son of a nobleman...") - short fiction
• 315 - Untitled Draft ("Three men squated beside the...") - short story
• 335 - The Hour of the Dragon (synopsis) - short fiction
• 339 - Notes on "The Hour of the Dragon" - essay
• 343 - A Witch Shall Be Born (synopsis) - short fiction

The most beautiful Conan books there is! The third and last volume was published in 2009 by Book Palace Books for Wandering Star, under the title Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three (1935), and the following year in the United States by Ballantine/Del Rey under the title 'The Bloody Crown of Conan'. The Science Fiction Book Club subsequently reprinted the complete set in hardcover; the set is noted for presenting the original, unedited versions of Howard's Conan tales. This volume includes the only Conan novel and three short stories as well as miscellanea for Howard fans and enthusiasts and is illustrated by noted artist Gregory Manchess.

The texts for this edition were based on Howard's original typescripts or the first published appearance if a typescript was unavailable.

Table of Contents:

• A1 - Hyborian Genesis Part III - (2005) - essay by Patrice Louinet
• A19 - Notes on the Conan Typescripts and the Chronology (The Conquering Sword of Conan) - (2005) - essay by Patrice Louinet
• A21 - Notes on the Original Howard Texts (The Conquering Sword of Conan) - (2005) - essay by uncredited
• Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three (1935) - interior artwork by Gregory Manchess
• i - Foreword (The Conquering Sword of Conan) - (2005) - essay by Gregory Manchess
• iii - Introduction (The Conquering Sword of Conan) - (2005) - essay by Patrice Louinet
• 1 - The Servants of Bit-Yakin - [Conan] - (2005) - novelette (variant of Jewels of Gwahlur 1935)
• 43 - Beyond the Black River - [Conan] - (1935) - novella
• 101 - The Black Stranger - [Conan] - (1987) - novella
• 175 - The Man-Eaters of Zamboula - [Conan] - (2005) - novelette (variant of Shadows in Zamboula 1935)
• 209 - Red Nails - [Conan] - (1936) - novella
• 285 - Untitled Notes ("The Westermark: located between...") - (2005) - short fiction
• 287 - Wolves Beyond the Border: Draft A - (2005) - short story
• 297 - Wolves Beyond the Border: Draft B - (2005) - short story
• 315 - The Black Stranger (Synopsis A) - (2005) - short fiction
• 317 - The Black Stranger (Synopsis B) - (2005) - short fiction
• 319 - The Man-Eaters of Zamboula (synopsis) - (2005) - short fiction
• 321 - Red Nails (draft) - (2005) - novella
• 359 - Letter to P. Schuyler Miller, March 10, 1936 ("Dear Mr. Miller: / I feel indeed honored...") - (1953) - essay
• 363 - Map of the Hyborian Age - (1976) - interior artwork