Marchers of Valhalla (1972)
The Sowers of the Thunder (1973)
The Vultures (1973)
The Lost Valley of Iskander (1974)
The People of the Black Circle (1974)
Tigers of the Sea (1974)
The Incredible Adventures of Dennis Dorgan (1974)
The Swords of Shahrazar (1975)
A Witch Shall Be Born (1975)
Red Nails (1975)
The Tower of the Elephant (1975)
The Devil in Iron (1976)
Rogues in the House (1976)
The Book of Robert E. Howard (1976)
Black Vulmea’s Vengeance (and Other Tales of Pirates) (1976)
The Second Book of Robert E. Howard (1976)
The Grim Land and Others (1976)
The Iron Man and Other Tales of the Ring (1976)
The Return of Skull-Face (1977) with Richard A. Lupoff
Son of the White Wolf (1977)
The Pride of Bear Creek (1977)
Three-Bladed Doom (1977)
The Sword Woman (1977)
The People of the Black Circle (1977)
Red Nails (1977)
The Robert E. Howard Omnibus (1977)
Skull-Face (1978)
Kull (1978)
Queen of the Black Coast (1978)
Black Canaan (1978)
The Last Ride (1978)
Solomon Kane: Skulls in the Stars (1978) with J. Ramsey Campbell
Solomon Kane: The Hills of the Dead (1979) with J. Ramsey Campbell
Black Colossus (1979)
The Jewels of Gwahlur (1979)
Hawks of Outremer (1979) with Richard L. Tierney
The Road of Azrael (1979)
The Gods of Bal-Sagoth (1979)
Pigeons from Hell (1979)
Mayhem on Bear Creek (1979)
Lord of the Dead (1981)
The Pool of the Black One (1986)
Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors (1987)
Robert E. Howard’s World of Heroes (1989)
The Conan Chronicles (1989) with L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
The Conan Chronicles 2 (1989) with L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
Eons of the Night (1996)
Trails in Darkness (1996)
Beyond the Borders (1996)
Ghor Kin-Slayer: The Saga of Genseric’s Fifth-Born Son (1997) with Divers Hands
The Essential Conan (1998)
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane (1998)
The Ultimate Triumph (2000)
The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (2000)
The Conan Chronicles Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon (2001)
Bran Mak Morn: The Last King (2001)
Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard (2001)
Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (2003)
Robert E. Howard’s Complete Conan of Cimmeria, Volume One (2003)
Waterfront Fists and Others: The Collected Fight Stories of Robert E. Howard (2003)
Graveyard Rats and Others (2003)
Complete Action Stories (2003)
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (2003)
Gates of Empire and Other Tales of the Crusades (2004)
Robert E. Howard’s Complete Conan of Cimmeria, Volume Two (2004)
Treasures of Tartary and Other Heroic Tales (2004)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (2004)
Shadow Kingdoms: The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 1 (2004)
Moon of Skulls: The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2 (2005)
The Black Stranger and Other American Tales (2005)
Lord of Samarcand and Other Adventure Tales of the Old Orient (2005)
The End of the Trail: Western Stories (2005)
Boxing Stories (2005)
The Riot at Bucksnort and Other Western Tales (2005)
Blood of the Gods and Other Stories (2005)
The Conquering Sword of Conan (2005)
Poetry
Always Comes Evening (1957)
Etchings in Ivory (Poems in Prose) (1968)
Singers in the Shadows (1970)
Echoes from an Iron Harp (1972)
Rhymes of Death (1975)
Verses in Ebony (1975)
The Grim Land and Others (1976)
Night Images (1977)
The Ghost Ocean: Poems of Horror and Supernatural (1982)
Shadows of Dreams (1989)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following individuals for their help and inspiration in the compiling of this very special centenary edition: Jo Fletcher, Malcolm Edwards, Danny Baror, Val and Les Edwards, Terry Allen, Danny Street, Rusty Burke, Patrice Louinet, Karl Edward Wagner, Glenn Lord, Novalyn Price Ellis, Joe Marek, Scott F. Wyatt, Robert Weinberg, Randy Broecker, Lew Cabos, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Kent Butler, Alistair Durie, Larry Richter, Erik Arthur and L. Sprague de Camp.
All excerpts from the letters of Robert E. Howard are quoted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
Map of The Hyborian Age copyright © 2000 by Dave Senior, from a map prepared by Robert E. Howard.
‘The Hyborian Age’ copyright © 1936 by Donald A. Wollheim for The Phantagrah, February, August and October-November 1936, and copyright © 1938 by the Los Angeles-New York Cooperative Publications for The Hyborian Age. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Cimmeria’ (verse) copyright © 1965 by Glenn Lord for The Howard Collector, Winter 1965. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Phoenix on the Sword’ copyright © 1932 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, December 1932. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Scarlet Citadel’ copyright © 1932 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, January 1933. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Tower of the Elephant’ copyright © 1933 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, March 1933. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Black Colossus’ copyright © 1933 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, June 1933. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Slithering Shadow’ copyright © 1933 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, September 1933. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Pool of the Black One’ copyright © 1933 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, October 1933. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Rogues in the House’ copyright © 1934 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, January 1934. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Shadows in the Moonlight’ copyright © 1934 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, April 1934. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Queen of the Black Coast’ copyright © 1934 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, May 1934. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Devil in Iron’ copyright © 1934 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, August 1934. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The People of the Black Circle’ copyright © 1934 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, September, October and November 1934. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘A Witch Shall Be Born’ copyright © 1934 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, December 1934. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Jewels of Gwahlur’ copyright © 1935 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, March 1935. Reprinted by permission of Conan
Properties, Inc.
‘Beyond the Black River’ copyright © 1935 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, May and June 1935. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Shadows in Zamboula’ copyright © 1935 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, November 1935. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Red Nails’ copyright © 1936 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, July, August-September and October 1936. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Hour of the Dragon’ (verse) copyright © 1969 by Glenn Lord for The Howard Collector, Spring 1969. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Hour of the Dragon’ copyright © 1935 and 1936 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Originally published in Weird Tales, December 1935, January, February, March and April 1936. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The God in the Bowl’ copyright © 1952 by Space Publications, Inc. Originally published in a somewhat different version in Super Science Fiction, September 1952. This version copyright © 1975 by Glenn Lord. Originally published in The Tower of the Elephant. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Black Stranger’ copyright © 1953 by Future Publications, Inc. Originally published in a somewhat different version in Fantasy Magazine, February-March 1953. This version copyright © 1987 by Conan Properties, Inc. Originally published in Echoes of Valor. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Frost-Giant’s Daughter’ copyright © 1953 by Future Publications, Inc. Originally published in a somewhat different version in Fantasy Fiction, August 1953. This version copyright © 1976 by Glenn Lord. Originally published in Rogues in the House. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Drums of Tombalku’ copyright © 1966 by L. Sprague de Camp. Originally published in a somewhat different version in Conan the Adventurer. This version copyright © 1986 by Conan Properties, Inc. Originally published in The Pool of the Black One. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Vale of Lost Women’ copyright © 1967 by Health Knowledge, Inc. Originally published in Magazine of Horror, Spring 1967 (whole number 15). Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Wolves Beyond the Border’ (draft) copyright © 1967 by L. Sprague de Camp. Originally published in a somewhat different version in Conan the Usurper. This version copyright © 2000 by Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Snout in the Dark’ (draft) copyright © 1969 by L. Sprague de Camp. Originally published in a somewhat different version in Conan of Cimmeria. This version copyright © 1979 by Conan Properties, Inc. Originally published in Jewels of Gwahlur. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Hall of the Dead’ (synopsis) copyright © 1976 by Glenn Lord. Originally published in The Last Celt: A Bio-Bibliography of Robert Ervin Howard. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘The Hand of Nergal’ (fragment) copyright © 1976 by Glenn Lord. Originally published in The Last Celt: A Bio-Bibliography of Robert Ervin Howard. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Notes on Various Peoples of the Hyborian Age’ originally published by The Robert E. Howard United Press Association (REHupa). Reprinted in A Gazeteer of the Hyborian World of Conan and an Ethnogeographical Dictionary of Principal Peoples of the Era, compiled by Lee N. Falconer. Copyright © 1977 by Starmont House. Reprinted by permission of Conan Properties, Inc.
‘Afterword: Robert E. Howard and Conan’ copyright © 2000, 2006 by Stephen Jones.
In memory of
KARL EDWARD WAGNER
who began this project
more than a quarter of a century ago,
and
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP
for keeping the
Hyborian Age alive.
ROBERT E. HOWARD was born and raised in rural Texas, where he lived all his life. The son of a pioneer physician, he began writing professionally at fifteen, and three years later sold his first story to Weird Tales. A prolific and proficient author, he published westerns, sports stories, horror tales, true confessions, historical adventures and detective thrillers, all the while developing a series of heroic characters with whom he would forever be identified with: Solomon Kane, King Kull, Bran Mak Morn and, of course, Conan the Cimmerian. Between 1932 and 1935, Howard wrote twenty-one sword and sorcery adventures of Conan, ranging in length from 3,500-word short stories to novel-length tales of 75,000 words. He committed suicide at the age of thirty, in June 1936. For more information about Robert E. Howard and Conan visit the REHupa website at http://www.rehupa.com
STEPHEN JONES is one of Britain’s most acclaimed anthologists of horror and dark fantasy. He has more than eighty books to his credit, and has won numerous awards. You can visit his website at http://www.herebedragons.co.uk/jones
LES EDWARDS is an award-winning artist who has established himself as a stalwart of the British fantasy, horror and science fiction illustration scene in a career spanning thirty years. You can visit his website at http://www.lesedwards.com
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