by Robert E. Howard
Edited with an Afterword by Stephen Jones
Illustrated by Les Edwards
(a) Victor Gollancz, UK • tp • £16.99
ISBN: 978-0-575-08988-4
(b) Victor Gollancz, UK • hc • £20.00 • (2011)
ISBN: 978-0-575-08987-7
[Note: As a result of a threatened lawsuit over trademark infringement,
publication was pushed back until early 2011. Although the page sheets were
printed in 2009, only copies of the export trade paperback were bound-up
at that time, and these were not commercially distributed.]
(c) BCA, UK • hc • (2011)
CN 162921
[Note: Printed in a smaller format, the BCA book club edition replaces the leather
binding with boards and a wraparound dustjacket and drops the endpapers. Although
apparently printed and bound in 2009, this edition was never offered for sale and
was dumped on the UK remainder market in early 2011 at the same time that the
Gollancz edition was finally distributed.]
Cover by Les Edwards
Frontispiece by Les Edwards
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Robert E. Howard (1906-36) is best known for his stories about Conan the Barbarian. However, Howard was a
prolific writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventures, Westerns, detective, sports stories,
true confessions and other genre fiction. During his short career, he created a number of
memorable characters in the pages of Weird Tales and other pulp magazines, including
the vengeful Puritan swashbuckler Solomon Kane, King Kull of Valusia, and the Pictish chieftain Bran Mak Morn.
This companion volume to The Complete Chronicles of Conan contains stories featuring
Conan's brothers-in-arms, from Howard's very first professionally published story, through the
exploits of Kane, Kull and the Picts, to a number of Oriental adventures, and early draft of a
Conan story, and a posthumously published space opera in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Compiled and with an historical Afterword by Stephen Jones, and lavishly illustrated by Les
Edwards, this is a volume that no Robert E. Howard fan will want to miss.
| INTRODUCTION |
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| Solomon Kane |
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| SOLOMON KANE'S HOMECOMING (verse) |
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| RED SHADOWS |
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| SKULLS IN THE STARS |
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| RATTLE OF BONES |
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| THE MOON OF SKULLS |
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| THE HILLS OF THE DEAD |
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| THE FOOTFALLS WITHIN |
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| WINGS IN THE NIGHT |
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| King Kull |
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| THE SHADOW KINGDOM |
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| THE MIRRORS OF TUZUN THUNE |
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| THE KING AND THE OAK (verse) |
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| Bran Mak Morn & the Picts |
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| THE LOST RACE |
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| KINGS OF THE NIGHT |
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| THE DARK MAN |
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| WORMS OF THE EARTH |
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| Savages, Swordsmen & Sorcerers |
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| SPEAR AND FANG |
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| HAWKS OF OUTREMER |
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| THE GODS OF BAL-SAGOTH |
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| THE SOWERS OF THE THUNDER |
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| LORD OF SAMARCAND |
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| THE LION OF TIBERIAS |
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| THE SHADOW OF THE VULTURE |
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| THE VALLEY OF THE WORM |
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| THE FROST KING'S DAUGHTER |
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| THE GARDEN OF FEAR |
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| GATES OF EMPIRE |
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| ALMURIC |
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| THE GHOST KINGS (verse) |
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| AFTERWORD: KINSMEN OF CONAN |
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Reviews
"If you own Gollancz's previous Howard collection—The Complete Chronicles of Conan—(and if you
don't, shame) you'll want this companion volume. Both are handsome productions, a credit to a mainstream
publisher. And both are edited by Stephen Jones . . . If you have any interest in the roots of modern
fantasy and horror (for Howard's stories were steeped in both) get this book."
—Peter Coleborn
THE BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY WEBSITE, March 5, 2011
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