Robert E Howard

Robert E. Howard tunnetaan parhaiten barbaarisoituri Conanin luojana. Valhallan vaeltajat -kokoelma sisältää aiemmin suomentamattomia Howardin kertomuksia. Näissä tarinoissa lukija päätyy maailmaan, jossa pimeys kätkee salaisuuksia, yliluonnollinen uhkaa päivittäistä elämää ja ihmisen mielikuvitus koettelee todellisuuden rajoja. Pohjolan hurjat soturit vaeltavat kauas etelään ja löytävät kaupungin, jossa palvotaan erikoista jumalaa. Vandaalien kuningas kohtaa yllättävän hahmon menneisyydestä ja ymmärtää pahuuden todellisen luonteen. Syvällä maan alla piileskelee muinaisten aikojen hirviöitä, jotka heräävät eloon kostaakseen. Howardin tarinoissa ihmisen pelot, ikivanhat legendat ja yliluonnollinen yhdistyvät ainutlaatuisella tavalla. Tämä kokoelma on välttämätöntä luettavaa kaikille kauhun, mysteerien ja seikkailujen ystäville.

Synkässä temppelissä tapahtuu murha. Kuka on tappaja? Kaupungin vartijat epäilevät,että barbaarisoturi Conan on syyllinen. Mutta totuus voi olla vielä kauheampi. Pääseekö kukaan pakoon temppelistä? Ja mitä tapahtuu saarella, jonka vanhojen raunioiden tilalla on äkkiä suuri kaupunki? Tässä kirjassa on kaksi hurjaa, selkokielistä Conan-tarinaa.

This revised and expanded Monster Manual contains a horde of creatures for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. Encounter a monstrous menagerie of familiar favorites like dragons, giants, and mind flayers, plus a host of new monsters like the arch-hag, the blob of annihilation, and the vampire nightbringer. Populate your worlds and adventures with the hundreds of monsters provided, and let their stories, illustrations, and easy-to-use stat blocks fuel your D&D adventures for years to come. - The biggest D&D monster manual ever, with over 500 total and over 75 brand-new monsters to choose from - 9 terrifying new predators for higher-level play, like the arch-hag and blob of annihilation - New variations on beloved creatures like the primeval owlbear and vampire familiar - 40+ versatile humanoid stat blocks that give Dungeon Masters greater flexibility when populating their worlds with NPCs - All creature stat blocks have been redesigned and rebalanced for ease of use and maximum fun - Breathtaking new artwork for almost every monster, including stunning redesigns of the chromatic and metallic dragons - Intuitive organization makes finding your favorite monster easier than ever before

Barbaarisoturi Conan on fantasiakirjallisuuden tunnetuimpia hahmoja, jonka vaiheita on seurattu myös elokuvissa ja sarjakuvissa. Robert E. Howardin luoma Conan on uljas miekkasankari, joka nujertaa niin yliluonnolliset hirviöt kuin kierot ihmisetkin. Conan ja merirosvot sisältää Howardin aiemmin suomentamattomia tarinoita, joissa pohjoisen perukoilta kotoisin oleva Conan seikkailee aivan uusissa maisemissa.

Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) desarroll una breve pero intensa carrera literaria en las revistas de g nero norteamericanas, llegando a convertirse en uno de los colaboradores m s destacados de la revista Weird Tales, junto a H.P. Lovecraft y Clark Ashton Smith. De personalidad psic tica, Howard se quit la vida a la edad de 30 a os. Sus relatos han venido public ndose desde entonces en m ltiples recopilaciones y, en algunos casos, ateni ndose a la cronolog a interna de sus ciclos de personajes. Howard fue un narrador nato cuyos relatos no han sido superados en cuanto a inter s, intensidad, emoci n y dinamismo de la acci n. Las historias de Conan son el summum de los cuentos de aventuras, con una fuerte dosis de elementos siniestros y sobrenaturales.

Vampire Classics features a unique adaptation of the 1922 silent film, Nosferatu. Plus a horror-western by "Conan" creator Robert E. Howard and Ray Bradbury's "The Man Upstairs." With "The Strange Orchid" by H.G. Wells, "Olalla" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and a short story by famed horror writer and co-editor Mort Castle.

Robert E. Howard ranks amongst the greatest pulp writers of all time, and is regarded as the father of the sword-and-sorcery genre. His wider body of work is often overshadowed by his most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, but Howard wrote a great amount of timeless horror and mystery tales that had nothing to do with Conan. Collected here, covering the whole of his career, are Howard's greatest lesser-known pulp tales. Includes 'Pigeons from Hell' - described by Stephen King as "one of the finest horror stories of our century."

"Where the West Began" - Seven Classic Tales! "Western Classics" features an adaptation of Zane Grey's grand western prototype, "Riders of the Purple Sage", illustrated by Cynthia Martin. It includes stories by Bret Harte, Willa Cather, Gertrude Atherton, and John G. Neihardt, with art and adaptations by Trina Robbins, John Findley, Mark A. Nelson, George Sellas, Reno Maniquis, and Ryan Huna Smith. Also included is an early "Hopalong Cassidy" story illustrated by original "Hoppy" newspaper strip artist Dan Spiegle, and a comic western by Conan creator Robert E. Howard.

Here are Howard's greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howard's best-known characters-Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them-roam the forbidding locales of the author's fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa. The collection includes Howard's masterpiece "Pigeons from Hell,"""which Stephen King calls "one of the finest horror stories of the twentieth] century," a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation-and into the maw of its fatal secret. In "Black Canaan" even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers-and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare "Worms of the Earth" and"""The Cairn on the Headland,"""Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the world's great masters of the macabre.

The seventh volume of the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard continues reprinting Howard's fantasy from Weird Tales and Strange Tales in order of original publication. All texts have been meticulously restored to their original pulp appearances.

From Robert E. Howard's fertile imagination sprang some of fiction's greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard's characters, none embodied his creator's brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race. In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism . . . all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race. Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, this collection gathers together all of Howard's published stories and poems featuring Bran Mak Morn-including the eerie masterpiece "Worms of the Earth" and "Kings of the Night," in which sorcery summons Kull the conqueror from out of the depths of time to stand with Bran against the Roman invaders. Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments, reproductions of manuscripts bearing Howard's handwritten revisions, and much, much more. Special Bonus: a newly discovered adventure by Howard, presented here for the very first time.