The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard by Robert E. Howard

The pulps were the perfect home for Howard’s bloody, action-packed tales, and he became hugely popular. At their height however, in the thirties, some of the pulps were selling a million copies an issue. As printing technology got better the pulps lost ground, and modern comics took their place. The pulp magazines were born out of the Victorian penny dreadfuls and dime-novels, printed in huge volumes on the cheapest possible paper, and packed with lurid, exciting stories of all imaginable sorts. Unlike those genteel British authors however, his work was a product of a very different environment – the corrupt, violent world of the Texan Oil-Boom. His influence has been as strong, as profound, as any contribution made by J.R.R. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian, remains one of the most important literary figures in American fantasy. Howard’s stories, more about “Conan” and more interesting thing (FREE Audiobook Link Included).Robert E. Howard’s biography, Background of Robert E. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming a notorious pirate and plundering the coastal villages of Kush alongside Belit, a head-strong femme fatale.ĭue to its epic scope and atypical romance, the story is considered an undisputed classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his most famous tales. “Queen of the Black Coast” is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales magazine circa May 1934. Queen of the Black Coast the Conan Stories is the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by Robert E. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare “Worms of the Earth” and “The Cairn on the Headland,” Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the world’s great masters of the macabre.

In “Black Canaan” even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers–and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. The collection includes Howard’s masterpiece “Pigeons from Hell,” which Stephen King calls “one of the finest horror stories of century,” a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation–and into the maw of its fatal secret. Some of Howard’s best-known characters–Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them–roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa. Here are Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions.

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard by Robert E. Howard