Robert Howard: 706 books

'The Country of the Knife' is a story in the El Borak series about a Texan gunman in early 20th Century Afghanistan. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard – a bookish and somewhat introverted child – was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South.

The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a 1935 fantasy novel written by Robert E. Howard featuring his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was the last Conan story published before Howard's suicide although not the last to be written. The plot is a loosely...

Aventurier parcourant les montagnes d’Afghanistan et les deserts d’Arabie, Francis Xavier Gordon, «El Borak», traque ses ennemis dans des contrees aussi impitoyables que lui. Complots, trahisons, villes secretes, affrontements sanglants, sectes d’assassins... Toute la demesure de Robert E....

The Hyborian Age is an essay by Robert E. Howard pertaining to the Hyborian Age, the fictional setting of his stories about Conan the Cimmerian. It sets out in detail the major events of the prehistorical period, before and after the time of the Conan stories. In describing the cataclysmic end of...

Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."

In his short life Robert E. Howard produced hundreds of short stories and works of poetry. Commonly associated with the era of pulp fiction he created numerous characters of which the most popular is Conan the Cimmerian. The titular story "The People of the Black Circle" because of its epic scope and...

The creator of Conan looks to the stars in one of fantasy’s most enduring science fantasy classics! Robert E. Howard’s Almuric is a savage planet of crumbling stone ruins and debased, near-human inhabitants. Into this world comes Esau Cairn, Earthman, swordsman, murderer. Only he can overthrow...

Bran Mak Morn is a hero of several pulp fiction short stories by Robert E. Howard. In the stories, most of which were first published in Weird Tales, Bran is the last king of Howard's romanticized version of the tribal race of Picts.

"Shadows in the Moonlight" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in April 1934. Howard originally named his story "Iron Shadows in...

"Queen of the Black Coast" is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine circa May 1934. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming a notorious pirate...

J’éclatai d’un rire de dérision, mais il sonna creux. Je ne pouvais nier l’extraordinaire magnétisme qui émanait de cette enchanteresse à la peau sombre ; il me fascinait, me poussait, m’attirant vers elle, prenant d’assaut ma volonté. —Tu ne peux résister au charme que j’ai...

J’éclatai d’un rire de dérision, mais il sonna creux. Je ne pouvais nier l’extraordinaire magnétisme qui émanait de cette enchanteresse à la peau sombre ; il me fascinait, me poussait, m’attirant vers elle, prenant d’assaut ma volonté. —Tu ne peux résister au charme que j’ai...

C’est une sensation hors du commun que se retrouver brutalement projeté de sa planète d’origine dans un monde étrange et inconnu. Moi qui n’avais jamais connu la peur, j’étais réduit à une boule de nerfs craintive, sursautant à la seule vue de mon ombre. Je venais de prendre conscience...

30 Erzählungen internationaler Spitzen-Autoren und -Autorinnen, vereint in einer Fantasy-Anthologie der Extra-Klasse (zusammengestellt und herausgegeben von Christian Dörge): u. a. von Michael Moorcock, Robert E. Howard, Lin Carter, Roger Zelazny, Ramsey Campbell, L. Sprague de Camp, Jack Dann, Michael Bishop, Nancy Springer, H. P. Lovecraft, Evangeline Walton.