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1 | 1967 | 2019 | Conan Conan #1 Cover Blurb | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard | | |
| CONAN AT HIS GREATEST... EPIC FANTASY AT ITS BEST
"Conan is the superman - or super-barbarian, rather - into whom the prolific Robert Erwin Howard was best able to inject his furious dreams of danger and power and unending adventure, of combative and sexual prowess, of hot impulses instantly followed, yet a fighting man's code never broken. Conan is a true hero of Valhalla, battling and suffering great wounds by day, carousing and wenching by night, and plunging into fresh adventures tomorrow. While the Hyborian Age through which Conan cuts his bloody swath is the most fully realized of Howard's fantasy worlds; mapped, geographically and economically plausible, provided with a stirring history and prehistory covering many cultures, and peopled by kings and beggars, peasants and poets, hags and queens and lusty girls, as well as warriors and warlocks." - FRITZ LEIBER
HERE ARE SEVEN OF THE MOST EXCITING CONAN STORIES, INCLUDING THREE NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED ANYWHERE
Meet Conan, the gigantic adventurer from Cimmeria - and discover one of the greatest thrills in modern fiction! With important background material, and a new, more detailed introduction by :. Sprague de Camp. | |
2 | 1969 | 2019 | Conan of Cimmeria Conan #2 Cover Blurb | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard | | |
| CONAN OF CIMMERIA
Conan in his most savage adventures!
"When he twisted his bullneck to look upward, the blood froze in Conan's veins. The mist that had obscured the top of the pylon was gone. The rising half moon shone on and through an amorphous thing, which squatted obsenely on the summit of the column. It was like a huge lump of quivering semi-translucent jelly - and it lived. Throbbing, bloated life pulsed within it. The moonlight glistened wetly upon is as it beat like a huge living heart. As Conan watched in horror, the thing sent a trickle of jelly down the shaft toward his constrained body...."
Eight harrowing, demonic adventures in the life of Conan including: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST and THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER. | |
3 | 1966 | 2020 | Conan the Adventurer Conan #5 Cover Blurb | L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard | | |
| CONAN THE ADVENTURER
The World's greatest fantasy hero - the ultimate warrior - Conan!"Towering above the larger-than-life characters - almost above the fabulous Hyborian world itself - is the figure of... Conan! "Great, gusty, swaggering, brawling, terrible, wonderful Conan! "Thief, pirate, mercenary, warrior, general, king - his sandaled feet are unerringly set upon the road of empire. You have never met his like before - nor, I think, shall you ever again." - ROY G. KRENKEL Including THE SLITHERING SHADOW and THE DRUMS OF TOMBALKU - plus one of the greatest of all his adventures, THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE! | |
4 | 1968 | 2020 | Conan the Avenger Conan #10 | L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard Björn Nyberg | | |
5 | 1967 | 2020 | Conan the Conqueror Conan #9 | Robert E Howard | | |
6 | 1968 | 2020 | Conan the Freebooter Conan #3 Cover Blurb | L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard | | |
| CONAN THE FREEBOOTERFive bizarre tales from the incredible adventures of the most fabulous barbarian warriors: HAWKS OVER SHEM • BLACK COLOSSUS SHADOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT THE ROAD OF THE EAGLES A WITCH SHALL BE BORN" Conan the hero of all Howard's heroes, is the armored swashbuckler, indestructible and irresistible, that we've all wanted to be at one time or another; the women, in appearance, manner, and costume (or lack of it) are the inmates in the sort of harem that harems ought to be but aren't; the villains are villainous as only perfect villains can be; the sorcerers are sorcerers in spades; and the apparitions they conjure up, or appear under their own power, are (thank God!) out of this world." -DR. JOHN D. CLARK | |
7 | 1967 | 2020 | Conan the Usurper Conan #8 | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard | | |
8 | 1968 | 2020 | Conan the Wanderer Conan #4 Cover Blurb | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard | | |
| CONAN THE WANDERER
Conan, nearly invincible and the mightiest of mankind's heroes, finally meats his match!
"No wor was spoken. No word was necessary.... Kosatral came upon him in an irresistible surge. There was a fleeting concussion, a fierce writhing and intertwining of limbs and bodies, and then Conan sprang clear. In that instant of contact he had experienced the ultimate madness of blasphemed nature; no human flesh had bruised his, but metal animated and sentient; it was a body of living metal which opposed his...."
This the most fabulous figure of epic sword-and-sorcery fiction meets diabolical dangers in the four superb Conan adventures included in this volume. | |
9 | 1967 | 2020 | Conan the Warrior Conan #7 | Robert E Howard | | |
10 | 1928 | 2021 | Solomon Kane Solomon Kane Cover Blurb | Robert E Howard | | |
| From Dunyazad Digital Library:
Solomon Kane is a very different character from Howard’s most famous fantasy hero, Conan. Though almost equal in physical strength, there is nothing of the barbarian’s careless and carefree vitality for Kane, the Puritan. And different from Conan, Kane has an agenda – he is out to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things, avenge all crimes against right and justice. There is a much darker force inside of him, though, which he cannot confront, and by which he is relentlessly and restlessly driven. The promise of joy and happiness at the end of Moon of Skulls is not for him, and homecoming, after all his adventures, barely offers a short repose.
In Solomon Kane we may find more of Howard himself than in any other major character he has created. But no need for us to delve into that darkness now – let us enjoy these fascinating tales! | |