Robert E Howard

Almuric An interplanetary epic of sword and sorcery. First published in Weird Tales, May-Aug. 1939 (copyright unrenewed). We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Trapped in the dungeons beneath an evil wizard's scarlet stronghold, Conan must confront a slew of new challenges and foes as he fights to free himself and reclaim the throne of Aquilonia Featuring duplicitous betrayers, sparring sorcerers, and all of the brutal excitement you've come to expect from the rampaging Cimmerian. One of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard.

Shadows in Zamboula is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian. Its original title was The Man-Eaters of Zamboula. The story takes place over a night in Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming cannibals. It features the character Baal-pteor, one of the few humans in the Conan stories to be a physical challenge for the main Cimmerian character himself.

Rogues in the House is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine circa January 1934. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan inadvertently becoming involved in the power play between two powerful men fighting for control of a city. It was the seventh Conan story Howard had published.

The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel written by Robert E. Howard featuring his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was the last Conan story published before Howard's suicide although not the last to be written. The plot is a loosely based melange of motifs from previous Conan short stories, most notably The Scarlet Citadel, with which it shares an almost identical storyline. It takes place when Conan is about forty-five, during his reign as King of Aquilonia, and follows a plot by a group of conspirators to depose him in favor of Valerius, heir to Conan's predecessor Numedides, whom he had slain to gain the throne.

Conan, siendo un joven vagabundo cimmerio, sin experiencia en la vida civilizada y por encima de todo lo relacionado con la magia, parada en la ciudad de Arenjun, espl ndida joya del reino Zamora y el lugar de nacimiento de los m s famosos ladrones de Hyboria . En uno de los locales Maglio infame tenga conocimiento de un fantasma como joya de valor incalculable llama El coraz n de elefante, en poder de un mago Arenjun lo suficientemente potente como para sacudir incluso la propia voluntad del gobernador local. Conan, que en el momento sobrevivi como un ladr n, que sin duda no se pierda la oportunidad de tientas para robarlo, aunque parece que se conserva en la residencia del mago, una torre inexpugnable en el coraz n de la ciudad, llamado elTorre del elefante .

De los diversos tipos de narrativa, la que brinda la m s pura diversi n es la fantas a heroica; se trata de historias de espada y brujer a, que se desarrollan en un mundo imaginario, ya sea en este planeta, tal como pudo ser hace muchos a os, o en el futuro remoto, o en otro mundo, o en otra dimensi n, donde la magia funciona y todos los hombres son poderosos, todas las mujeres hermosas, los problemas sencillos, y la vida es una aventura. En un mundo como ste, las radiantes ciudades apuntan con sus brillantes torres a las estrellas; los brujos lanzan hechizos siniestros desde sus guaridas subterr neas; los esp ritus malignos caminan, y acechan en las ruinas; los monstruos primitivos se abren camino a trav s de la selva, y el destino de los reinos depende de las hojas sangrientas de las espadas empu adas por h roes de primitiva fuerza y valor.

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.

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.

A Torre do Elefante uma das hist rias originais escritas pelo autor norte-americano Robert E. Howard, tendo como protagonista o personagem Conan da Cim ria que viveu no per odo pseudo-hist rico da Era Hiboriana. A hist ria narra os acontecimentos em que Conan infiltra-se em uma perigosa torre para roubar uma joia lend ria de um feiticeiro maligno chamado Yara. Devido s suas ideias nicas sobre o mundo hiboriano e elementos de fic o fant stica at picos, mesclados com influ ncias do horror c smico de HP Lovecraft, a hist ria considerada um cl ssico da tradi o de Conan e frequentemente citada pelos estudiosos de Howard como um dos seus melhores escritos. Este volume ainda conta com o conto O Deus na Urna, outra cl ssica e sinistra aventura do jovem Conan. O Autor: Robert E. Howard (1906 - 1936) foi um autor americano que escreveu pulp fiction em diversos g neros. Ele bem conhecido por seu personagem Conan, o B rbaro, e considerado o pai do subg nero da espada e da feiti aria. Howard passou a maior parte de sua vida na cidade de Cross Plains, Texas, passando algum tempo na vizinha Brownwood. Uma crian a estudiosa e intelectual, Howard tamb m era um f de boxe e passou algum tempo em sua adolesc ncia fazendo muscula o, eventualmente se dedicando ao boxe amador. Desde os nove anos de idade, ele sonhava em se tornar um escritor de fic o de aventura, mas s come ou a obter verdadeiro sucesso aos 23 anos. Depois disso, at sua morte por suic dio aos 30 anos, os escritos de Howard foram publicados em uma ampla sele o de revistas e jornais. Howard tornou-se proficiente em v rios g neros liter rios, mas seu maior sucesso ocorreu ap s sua morte.Embora um romance de Conan quase tenha sido publicado em 1934, as hist rias de Howard nunca foram coletadas durante sua vida. A principal sa da para suas hist rias era a Weird Tales, onde Howard criou Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn e muitos outros. Com Conan e seus outros her is, Howard ajudou a moldar o g nero a

This collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author. This pulp-size softcover is the same physical size and layout as the original 1930s pulp magazines in which the stories first ran.This softcover edition includes a searchable, sharable interactive PDF edition of the book as downloadable bonus content.Excerpt from Introduction: "When the first Conan of Cimmeria story appeared in the pages of Weird Tales magazine in December 1932, nothing quite like it had ever before appeared in print.Author Robert E. Howard had been writing stories broadly similar to it for half a decade; but it was with Conan, and the Hyborian Age storyworld in which he was placed, that Howard finally fully doped out the sub-genre that would become known as "sword and sorcery," of which Howard is today considered the founding father."Conan's origins date back to an experiment in 1926 titled "The Shadow Kingdom," featuring the character Kull, exile of Atlantis. The idea - Howard's great innovation - was, at its core, historical fiction set in a pre-historical period. That pre-historical period - being, of course, lost in the mists of time - could contain anything Howard might like to include: evil races of sentient snake-things, sorcerers, undead creatures, demons walking upon the earth, anything."In other words, Howard was creating a secular mythology."And as with any mythology, secular or no, there would be a hero, a Ulysses or a Theseus, an exceptional man of legend striding through that myth-world, sword in hand, righting wrongs and slaying supernatural monsters and, along the way, providing metaphorical insight onto his world and ours."At the same time, he was finding success with another historical-fiction-fusion innovation: The grim, savage English Puritan Solomon Kane. Kane's world was the skull-strewn chaos of Europe and north Africa during the Thirty Years War, in the early 1600s. Little enough is known about specific events during that dark time that it was possible to take historical liberties with it as a storyworld, so that it could accommodate dark magic, walking skeletons, vampires, magic staffs, and, of course, N'Longa the witch-doctor."Howard quickly realized he was onto something with Solomon Kane. The first Solomon Kane story, "Red Shadows," appeared in August 1928 in Weird Tales, and readers loved it. Here was a dark, brooding world of menace and witchcraft connected pseudo-genealogically to their own. It was easy for readers to "take the ride" - to suspend their disbelief and envision Kane's adventures as a part of the real world."But, perhaps the connection with the real world was too close. The countries of 1630s Europe are well known; the causes of the conflict fully understood. There was only so much Howard could do in Solomon Kane's world. Moreover, Solomon Kane is just a hard character to root for. Unlike Kull, he is, not to put too fine a point on it, really not a sane man."So it makes perfect sense that after the shadowy, prehistoric world of Kull and the dark, necromantic world of Solomon Kane, Howard would combine these two precursors to develop a world that was far enough into the distant past to be free of actual historical constraints - like Kull's - yet close enough to the present to still exist as echoes and legends in the world's mythologies."And so Howard created The Hyborian Age, circa 10,000 B.C. And to play the role of our avatar as we explore this shadowy, almost-historical world, he gave us Conan the Cimmerian - to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."