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by Robert E. Howard


  Stuart Williams

  I’d like to thank Rusty and Stuart for their consistent and wonderful support and most of all Jim and Ruth for making it all seem so easy with their fantastic work, thanks. Thanks must also go to Graziana who makes it all worthwhile.

  Marcelo Anciano

  THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED ROBERT E. HOWARD LIBRARY

  from Del Rey Books

  The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

  The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

  The Bloody Crown of Conan

  Bran Mak Morn: The Last King

  The Conquering Sword of Conan

  Kull: Exile of Atlantis

  The Best of Robert E. Howard

  Volume 1: Crimson Shadows

  The Best of Robert E. Howard

  Volume 2: Grim Lands

  (forthcoming)

  The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume One is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  A Del Rey Trade Paperback Original

  Copyright © 2007 by Robert E. Howard Properties, LLC

  Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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  *1 To avoid confusion I have used the modern terms for places and clans.—AUTHOR

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  Table of Contents

  Cover Page

  Title Page

  Dedication

  The Shadow Kingdom...

  Foreword

  Introduction

  The Shadow Kingdom

  The Ghost Kings

  The Curse of the Golden Skull

  Red Shadows

  The One Black Stain

  The Dark Man

  The Marching Song of Connacht

  Kings of the Night

  Recompense

  The Black Stone

  The Song of a Mad Minstrel

  The Fightin’est Pair

  The Grey God Passes

  The Song of the Last Briton

  Worms of the Earth

  An Echo from the Iron Harp

  Lord of the Dead

  Untitled

  “For the Love of Barbara Allen”

  The Tide

  The Valley of the Worm

  The Dust Dance: Selections, Version II

  The People of the Black Circle

  Beyond the Black River

  A Word from the Outer Dark

  Hawk of the Hills

  Sharp’s Gun Serenade

  Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die

  Appendices

  Robert E. Howard: Twentieth-Century Mythmaker

  A Short Biography of Robert E. Howard

  Notes on the Original Howard Texts

  Our work on this book would…

  Also by Robert E. Howard

  Copyright

 

 

 


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