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Conan: Reaver, Mercenary, Conqueror, King, Cimmerian: The Collected Adventures of the World's Greatest Barbarian

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Join Conan the Barbarian on his many adventures from mercenary and thief to conqueror and king as he smites demons, fights wizards, slays monsters, unearths forgotten treasures, battles against all odds, journeys to exotic lands, loves and lusts, uncovers hidden mysteries, and always refuses to yield!

This epic collection contains all 18 of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories published during his lifetime.

These stories were originally published in Weird Tales magazine between 1933 and 1936.

The Conan stories included in the collection

1. Gods of the North (The Frost Giant's Daughter) (1934)

2. The Tower of the Elephant (1933)

3. Rogues in the House (1935)

4. Shadows in the Moonlight (Iron Shadows in the Moon) (1934)

5. Black Colossus (1934)

6. Queen of the Black Coast (1934)

7. The Slithering Shadow (Xuthal of the Dusk) (1934)

8. A Witch Shall Be Born (1934)

9. The Devil in Iron (1934)

10. The People of the Black Circle (1934)

11. Shadows in Zamboula (Man-Eaters of Zamboula) (1935)

12. The Pool of the Black One (1934)

13. Beyond the Black River (1935)

14. Red Nails (1936)

15. Jewels of Gwahlur (The Teeth of Gwahlur) (1935)

16. The Phoenix on the Sword (1932)

17. The Scarlet Citadel (1933)

18. The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conqueror) (1935)

As an added bonus, also included in the set

The Hyborian Age—Conan's World (This is Howard's background essay on the world of Conan) (1936), and

The Shadow Kingdom and The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune (These are two of Howard's early Kull of Atlantis stories that predate and strongly influence his later Conan works.) (1929)

For ease of navigation, the anthology includes an interactive table of contents.

The stories in this collection are ordered roughly in chronological order from Conan's first adventures as a young mercenary adventurer and thief to his final epic clashes as a king and are based on the Rippke chronology.

About

Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films (including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer), television programs (cartoon and live-action), video games, role-playing games and other media. The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

Conan the

Conan is a Cimmerian. From Robert E. Howard's writings (The Hyborian Age among others) it is known that the Cimmerians were based on the Celts or Gaels. He was born on a battlefield and is the son of a village blacksmith.

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Robert E. Howard

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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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