Product Description

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 nore 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 in one volume for the very first time, in chronological order, are Robert E. Howard's tales of the legendary hero, as fresh and atmospheric today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines of more than seventy years ago. Compiled by and with a foreward and afterword by award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3090 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 944 pages

Review
"The energy of the writing practically thrums off the page and often the sense of tension and unease invoked is genuinely unsettling. Read it, then use the weighty tome to smite your enemies, drive them before you and hear the lamentation of their women!" -- Brian Williamson STARBURST

Review
"The energy of the writing practically thrums off the page and often the sense of tension and unease invoked is genuinely unsettling. Read it, then use the weighty tome to smite your enemies, drive them before you and hear the lamentation of their women!" (Brian Williamson STARBURST )

About the Author
Robert Erwin Howard was born and raised in rural Texas, the son of a pioneer physician. He began writing professionally at the age of fifteen and until his tragic death at the age of thirty turned out dozens of tales of heroic and supernatural fantasy that won him a huge audience across the world and influenced a whole generation of writers, from Robert Jordan to Raymond E. Feist.

Customer Reviews

The one and only
I highly recommend this book, it is the only conan book you need.
I got this after watching the film and reading a couple of the comics. It blows the film out of the water, I mean the film is good, but this is so much better.
When you read some of the stories you can see where other authors got their ideas from.
If you like the film, you'll like this and if you like fantasy you like this. If you are a Robert E Howard fan you'll love this...
...I just hope they release Solomon Kane and Kull editions aswell.

The only Conan you'll ever need.
Forget the two Arnold movies, forget the comics, forget the other-writer penned Conan tales, and forget the edited and revised stories even those by the well-intentioned and highly respected L. Sprague de Camp; these are the original Conan stories in as close a form to that as Robert E. Howard intended in all their blood-soaked pulp glory. This is action-adventure-fantasy at its very best written in a vivid muscular style that no-one has ever quite imitated or improved on. You may want more Conan after reading these stories, indeed you certainly will, but believe me, you don't need them.

It would be nice if this excellent volume sells well enough for the publishers to consider a similar in size companion volume containing a selection of stories about Howard's other pulp action heroes.

fantastic book but not what i was looking for
i bought this book to make the wait for the game conan hyborian adventures a little less nail biteing. i bought this book hopeing it would tell me everything about conan and his age unfortunatly it dose not. it dose to go into conans child hood and his rise to power.i found this very anoying but never the less this is still a fantastic book and robert e howerd is a fantastic writer