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On the edges of
the known world and in ancient kingdoms of blood and gold that
history has forgotten, Robert E. Howard’s hot-tempered barbarians
and cavaliers wield their red-dripping broadswords against the
leering horrors of hell. Combining lightning-fast action and supernatural
thrills against a backdrop of shadowy antiquity, Howard pioneered
modern heroic fantasy and fathered a host of towering heroes –
Conan, King Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn and a legion of
others.
The mightiest character in all of heroic fantasy! Conan is a free
barbarian from distant Cimmeria who ventures into the splendid
kingdoms of the south to find his fortune in the lost eons of
the Hyborian Age between the sinking of Kull’s Atlantis
and the dawn of history. Cunning thief, captain of mercenaries
and corsairs, lover of sultry temptresses, Conan follows his destiny
into demon-haunted treasure towers and across the plains of death.
And at last, like Kull before him, he slashes his name across
the scrolls of royalty as King Conan, usurper-lord of imperial
Aquilonia.
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Kull of Atlantis and Valusia – the barbarian who becomes
a gladiator, the gladiator who seizes a magnificent kingdom from
a mad tyrant and crowns himself king. In the dawn world of 100,000
years ago, Kull holds his throne against scheming conspirators,
murderous rivals, and deadliest of all, the snake-headed Serpent
Men who are mankind’s secret masters. He broods over the
mysteries of eternity, shatters outmoded and unjust laws, and
answers his enemies’ threats with razor-edged steel as his
blood-brother Brule the Spear-slayer fights at his side.
Mightier than Gladiator and Braveheart, Bran Mak Morn is Robert
E. Howard’s darkest and noblest hero. Venturing to hell
and back, Bran unleashes the infernal powers of the Worms of the
Earth and unlocks the gates of time to bring the Roman Legions
to bay in ancient Britain. Last king of the dying race of Picts,
Bran Mak Morn’s spirit lives on forever to fight for his
people’s freedom and survival.
As he lies at the end of a short, sickly, and unremarkable life
in 1930s rural Texas, young James Allison remembers a host of
previous incarnations as mighty heroes, dauntless yellow-haired
warriors who were the prototypes of all mythological heroes and
demi-gods: Niord, who faced a grisly terror from the earth’s
nethermost caverns in the Valley of the Worm ... Hunwulf, wanderer
in the Garden of Fear ... Hialmar, the destroyer of Lemuria and
champion of Ishtar ... bravery undying in Howard’s strangest
saga.
In the strife-torn age of King Arthur, Cormac Mac Art is an Irish
pirate who plies his wits and his blade against the warring Saxons,
Jutes, and Britons alike, for in a time of wolves, only the shrewdest
wolf will prevail. Cormac would rather win the day through crafty
deception than through swordplay. But when the swords come out,
a faceless enemy abducts the last princess of Roman Britain, and
vengeful Picts storm the frontier settlements of the Norsemen,
Cormac and his bear-like partner Wulfhere Skull-Splitter are the
first in battle.
Hated by his Viking enemies and disowned by his own Irish tribe
in a blood-feud, Turlogh Dubh O’Brien is called Black Turlogh
for the darkness of his hair and the storminess of his berserk
rages. From the blood-splashed plain of Clontarf to the far steppes
of the Yugoslavs and the island of the Dark Man, Turlogh’s
restless spirit leads him on an endless quest. On the edge of
the world, in the time-lost city of Bal-Sagoth, fate puts an empire
in his grasp for an hour – then snatches it from him in
an apocalyptic night of fire and fury.
God’s angry warrior, Solomon Kane is Robert E. Howard’s
most unusual creation. Black-clad and steely tempered, Kane combines
the headlong action of Conan with the swashbuckling valor of the
Three Musketeers as he bestrides demon-infested Africa and the
war-torn Europe of Queen Elizabeth I to dispense relentless justice
with the point of his sword. Pirates, vampires, mad queens, winged
Furies, rapacious bandits, the berserk warriors of lost Atlantis
– evil cannot escape justice from Solomon’s slashing
rapier.
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