Conan : The Essential Stories

by Robert E. Howard, Kronnenger Publishing (Editor)

Conan the Barbarian of Cimmeria is a hero created by Robert E. Howard. This is a selection of some of the best stories of Conan written by Robert E. Howard The Frost Giant's daughter, The Tower of the Elephant, The Queen of the Black Coast, and The People of the Black Circle. Presented as an official edition without changes to the stories, prologues, external annotations, or any other interruption of the original text as it was first published. The essential adventures to understand the universe of Conan.

163 pages, Paperback

Published July 21, 2019

About the author

Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."

He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.

—Wikipedia

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Reviews

[Jen Galton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite cool. But I had to read the kindle version because the paper one has run out in the US apparently. The stories are a good selection for someone like me who knew Conan only from the movies :))))