The reader can watch the birth of sword and sorcery and the iconic barbarian that nearly a century after his creation is fresh and relevant.

Get your hands on the complete Conan Exiles experience with the full game, now with sorcery, the Isle of Siptah Expansion, and all DLCs! Robert also has some brutal and awesome prose that Stephen King himself described as "so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks. This might be worthy of some concern, however most of the texts of interest were taken from acceptable, secondary sources with but a few exceptions. He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.Black Colossus: A demonic cosmic horror, a lich-like ancient sorcerer, a tremendous battle of armies that made me think of Erikson's Malazan. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Mildly sexy and exuberantly violent, these tales make for an excellent escape from humdrum modernity, where life's Gordian knots cannot be simply hewn asunder with a mighty sword stroke.

Woman and anyone none White are described in very caricatured ways that reflect the author as a product of his time.This is a short novella, published in 3 parts of 1934, and as such, although short in its structure, longer than most of Robert's stories he was publishing so far. Whoever did them needs to learn to draw from the right side of the brain rather than the wrong side of primary school. Conan himself is a complex character, a prototype and ancestor of all the anti-heros we see popping up in movies and books. It may be more accurate in capturing the spirit of Howard's Hyborian world, if not his central character.

There's plenty of blood, guts and visceral description but they are also very evocative stories that help you, as Stephen King would doubtless say, 'Fall through the hole in the paper' with their descriptive power. It's an above average sword-and-sorcery romp, 'romp' often being an operative word as far as Conan's exploits are concerned.In his "dark, scared face there was a suggestion of moodiness; and without being marred by depravity, or definitely evil, there was more than a suggestion of the sinister about his features. And this particular book is a work of art, a leather tome with gilded pages - fitting for reading about the mighty barbarian! Survive freezing cold temperatures, explore loot-filled dungeons, develop your character from scavenging survivor to mighty barbarian and powerful sorcerer, and fight to dominate your enemies in epic siege wars. The collection is edited by Stephen Jones and was issued to celebrate the centenary of Howard's birth.