Description:
Fantastic Stories Presents: Conan The Barbarian Super Pack brings together a substantial illustrated collection of Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories, the sword-and-sorcery adventures that helped define heroic fantasy. Across lost cities, savage kingdoms, ancient ruins, pirate coasts, haunted temples, and blood-soaked battlefields, Conan fights sorcerers, tyrants, monsters, thieves, warriors, and kings while carving his own legend in a brutal prehistoric world.
Howard's Conan is not a polished knight or conventional hero. He is barbarian, thief, mercenary, pirate, commander, and conqueror: a figure of raw vitality set against decaying civilizations, occult dangers, and treacherous courts. These stories combine fast action, dark atmosphere, strange magic, and hard-edged adventure, creating a body of fiction that shaped modern fantasy, sword and sorcery, pulp adventure, and the larger tradition of action-driven speculative fiction.
This illustrated Super Pack offers readers a powerful single-volume introduction to one of fantasy's most enduring characters and to Robert E. Howard's fierce, highly influential storytelling. For fans of classic fantasy, pulp fiction, heroic adventure, weird fiction, and early twentieth-century magazine stories, Conan remains essential reading: violent, vivid, mythic, and unforgettable.
Stories include
- The Hyborian Age
- The Phoenix on the Sword
- The Scarlet Citadel
- The Tower of the Elephant
- Black Colossus
- The Slithering Shadow
- The Pool of the Black One
- Gods of the North
- Shadows in Zamboula
- Shadows in the Moonlight
- Queen of the Black Coast
- The Devil in Iron
- The People of the Black Circle
- A Witch Shall Be Born
- Rogues in the House
- Jewels of Gwahlur
- Beyond the Black River
- The Hour of the Dragon
- Red Nails
- Adventurer At The Bazaar
- Dreams Of Nineveh
- The Gates of Nineveh
- Empire's Destiny
Brief description: Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, adventure, westerns, historical fiction, and boxing stories, and one of the central figures in the development of modern heroic fantasy. Born in Texas and closely associated with the pulp magazine era, Howard wrote with extraordinary energy across multiple popular genres, but he is best remembered as the creator of Conan the Barbarian. His fiction appeared in magazines such as Weird Tales, where his combination of action, dark atmosphere, ancient civilizations, and supernatural menace helped create the sword-and-sorcery tradition.Howard's Conan stories began appearing in the early 1930s and quickly established a new kind of fantasy hero: physically powerful, morally complex, suspicious of civilization, and driven by instinct, courage, ambition, and survival. Unlike the courtly heroes of older romance, Conan moves through a world of collapsing kingdoms, decadent cities, monstrous cults, lost races, and sinister magic. These stories helped shift fantasy toward a harder, faster, more visceral mode of adventure, influencing generations of writers, artists, filmmakers, game designers, and readers.Although Howard died at only thirty, his literary legacy is immense. Alongside Conan, he created characters such as Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and many others, each contributing to the imaginative worlds of pulp fantasy, weird fiction, horror, and historical adventure. Today Robert E. Howard is recognised as a foundational author of sword and sorcery and one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century fantasy fiction.