“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 m...
The fifth collection of Robert E. Howard's fantasy work from the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales (and several of its rivals) features another lineup filled with classic fiction and poetry from Howard's greatest writing years. Included in this volume are four stories with Howard's most famous ...
It's disappointing the way modern critics often fail to address issues of race as they are presented in books from earlier time periods. Sure, when writing of Howard and Lovecraft (or even Twain and Poe) critics will not fail to repeat some notion that their racism is 'an unfortunate artifact of ...
Opening: 1 Conan Loses His AxThe stillness of the forest trail was so primeval that the tread of a soft-booted foot was a startling disturbance. At least it seemed so to the ears of the wayfarer, though he was moving along the path with the caution that must be practised by any man who ventures b...
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 poetr...
Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age. C...
It's only really dawned on me in recent years just how prolific Robert E. Howard was as a writer. He wrote a lot, no joke. When I first discovered Howard through those Ace Conan paperbacks, my interest never strayed too far from Conan. I read some Kull, some Bran Mak Morn, some Solomon Kane but n...
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 Sou...
Howard, we get to see only little slivers at a time of his self-created fictional world, the “Hyborian Age.” It is in The Hour of the Dragon that we finally get to see a much more expansive presentation of his unique world-building efforts, thanks to REH having a novel-length story with which to ...
Howard and the Picts: A Chronology Robert E. Howard, Bran Mak Morn and the Picts Notes on the Original Howard Texts Acknowledgments Also by Robert E. Howard Praise for Robert E. Howard Copyright For Julie, Nicole and Gina �ary Gianni Men of the Shadows first published Bran Mak Morn, Dell 1969 Ver...
Little more than a girl she was, but her wasted limbs and staring eyes showed that she had suffered much before death brought her merciful relief. Kane noted the chain galls on her limbs, the deep crisscrossed scars on her back, the mark of the yoke on her neck. His cold eyes deepened strangely, ...
The long tapers flickered, sending the black shadows wavering along the walls, and the velvet tapestries rippled. Yet there was no wind in the chamber. Four men stood about the ebony table on which lay the green sarcophagus that gleamed like carven jade. In the upraised right hand of each man a c...
Howard's Weird Works Volume 5: Valley Of The Worm OUT OF THE PAST The Persistence of Evil in the Fiction of Robert E. Howard by James Reasoner One of Robert E. Howard’s deep and abiding interests was the study of history. His bookshelf contained not only multi-volume sets such as Grolier’s Th...
Howard Volume One: Crimson Shadows Red Shadows I THE COMING OF SOLOMON The moonlight shimmered hazily, making silvery mists of illusion among the shadowy trees. A faint breeze whispered down the valley, bearing a shadow that was not of the moon-mist. A faint scent of smoke was apparent. The man w...
Clemants and Professor Kirowan had just engaged in a somewhat testy anthropological argument: Clemants upholding the theory of a separate, distinct Alpine race, while the professor maintained that this so-called race was merely a deviation from an original Aryan stock – possibly the result of an ...
Howard was a lifelong student of world history. He read extensively on the subject, both fiction and non-fiction, and was familiar with the sweep of mankind and its subsequent rise and fall. In particular, Howard was interested in the decay of civilizations, the backward slide into barbarism. Giv...
Howard, Volume 4 THE SCARLET CITADEL Weird Tales, January 1933 They trapped the Lion on Shamu’s plain; They weighted his limbs with an iron chain; They cried loud in the trumpet-blast, They cried, “The Lion is caged at last!” Woe to the cities of river and plain If ever the Lion stalks again!...
CALL FROM CANAAN “Trouble on Tularoosa Creek!” A warning to send cold fear along the spine of any man who was raised in that isolated back country, called Canaan, that lies between Tularoosa and Black River — to send him racing back to that swamp-bordered region, wherever the word might reach him...
There is only one spring in the hills; it rises in a cave high up in the wall and curls down the steep rocky slope, a slender thread of silver, to empty into a broad shallow pool below. The sun was hanging like a blood-red ball above the western desert when Francis Xavier Gordon halted near this ...