By Robert E. Howard

ISBN-10: 0345490185

ISBN-13: 9780345490186

Robert E. Howard is among the most famed and influential pulp authors of the 20th century. although mostly often called the fellow who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre–and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian–Howard additionally wrote horror stories, wilderness adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and extra. This remarkable quantity, gorgeously illustrated by means of Jim and Ruth Keegan, contains a few of his top and hottest works.

Inside, readers will notice (or rediscover) such gemstones as “The Shadow Kingdom,” that includes Kull of Atlantis and thought of through many to be the 1st sword-and-sorcery tale; “The Fightin’est Pair,” a part of one in all Howard’s such a lot profitable sequence, chronicling the travails of Steve Costigan, a service provider seaman with fists of metal and a head of wooden; “The gray God Passes,” a haunting story in regards to the passing of an age, informed opposed to the backdrop of Irish historical past and legend; “Worms of the Earth,” a brooding narrative that includes Bran Mak Morn, approximately which H. P. Lovecraft acknowledged, “Few readers will ever fail to remember the hideous and compelling strength of [this] macabre masterpiece”; a old poem concerning a momentous conflict among Cimbri and the legions of Rome; and “Sharp’s Gun Serenade,” one of many final and funniest of the Breckinridge Elkins tales.

These exciting, eerie, compelling, swashbuckling tales and poems were restored to their unique shape, offered simply because the writer meant. there's little question that once greater than seven a long time the voice of Robert E. Howard keeps to resonate with readers round the world.

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