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The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

The best horror stories and poems by Robert E. Howard is collected in this beautiful book by Subterranean Press.

The UK based small press Wandering Star issued glorious editions of Robert E. Howard’s work, including The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, The Ultimate Triumph, as well as two volumes of Howard’s Conan tales. Subterranean Press followed this when Wandering Star folded. It’s basically a beautiful reprint of Del Reys book.

Weird Tales 1973 Fall

Weird Tales 1973 Fall. Contains THE MAN ON THE GROUND. is a short story by Robert Ervin Howard where two men are fighting a final duel. First published in Weird Tales 1933 July. It is a brief short story (under 2200 words) set in Texas about two men (Cal Reynolds & Esau Brill) who have been feuding for so long that no one really knows how their feud began. 

Conan the Defender

Conan the Defender is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert Jordan, featuring Robert E. Howard’s sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in trade paperback by Tor Books in December 1982, followed by a regular paperback edition in December 1983. The book was reprinted by Tor in February 1991 and September 2009. This is the Sphere edition from 1985. It was also published by Legend in September 1996. It was later gathered together with Conan the Invincible and Conan the Unconquered into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles (Tor Books, 1995).

Conan the Usurper

Edited by L. Sprague de Camp

Conan the Usurper is a 1967 collection of four fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard’s sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times by various publishers and has also been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Dutch.

Conan and the Spider God

Non-Howard material.

Conan and the Spider God is a fantasy novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp featuring Robert E. Howard’s sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Bantam Books in December 1980; later paperback editions were issued by Ace Books (April 1989, reprinted August 1991) and Tor Books (June 2003). The first hardcover edition was issued by Robert Hale in 1984, and the second by Tor Books in 2002. It was later gathered together with Conan the Swordsman and Conan the Liberator into the omnibus trade paperback collection Sagas of Conan (Tor Books, 2004).

Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur

Sleep No More is an anthology of fantasy and horror stories edited by August Derleth and illustrated by Lee Brown Coye, the first of three similar books in the 1940s. It was first published by Rinehart & Company in 1944. Featuring short stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and other noted authors of the macabre genre, many of the stories made their initial appearance in Weird Tales magazine. The anthology is considered to be a classic of the genre, and is the initial foray by Coye into the field of horror illustration.