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The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The bleak pale sun that glittered so blindingly from the ice-fields and the snow-covered plains struck sheens of silver from rent corselet and broken blade, where the dead lay as they had fallen. The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt; helmeted heads back-drawn in the death-throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in last invocation to Ymir the frost-giant, god of a warrior-race.

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Conan receives more attention than he needs in this wild adventure that nearly costs him his life. Who will win his love, and at what cost?

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Conan has claimed the throne of Aquilonia, but now he must defend it from rival armies and sorcery most vile. Evil magicians and neighboring armies loom on the horizon and all that stands between Conan and certain death is the strength of his sword arm and his wits. Little does Conan know the lengths that he will have to travel to keep his crown. Perhaps Robert E. Howard's greatest work.

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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 the Thurian Age, the period described in his Kull stories, Howard linked both sequences of stories into one shared universe. This essay also sets out the racial and geographical heritage of the fictional peoples and countries of the Age.

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In the last of the Conan stories to be published, there is no end to the action and adventure. He pursues a beautiful former pirate, fights a dinosaur, discover an ancient city, and so much more, as Howard leads the reader through a labyrinth of unexpected twist plots.

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Pap dug the nineteenth buckshot out of my shoulder and said, «Pigs is more disturbin' to the peace of a community than scandal, divorce, and corn licker put together. And,» says pap, pausing to strop his bowie on my scalp where the hair was all burnt off, «when the pig is a razorback hawg, and is mixed up with a lady schoolteacher, a English tenderfoot, and a passle of bloodthirsty relatives, the result is appallin' for a peaceable man to behold. Hold still till John gits yore ear sewed back on.»

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The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present the Conan Super Pack: twenty-three short stories and poems and a full length novel. Conan the Barbarian was the greatest hero of the Hyborian Age. Orphaned at a young age he was forced to live by his wits, brawn, and the skill of his sword arm. This mighty warrior rises from obscurity to one day become the King of Aquilonia. Included are twelve wonderful original illustrations.


The Hyborian Age
The Phoenix on the Sword
The Scarlet Citadel
The Tower of the Elephant
Black Colossus
The Slithering Shadow
The Pool of the Black One
Gods of the North
Shadows in Zamboula
Shadows in the Moonlight
Queen of the Black Coast
The Devil in Iron
The People of the Black Circle
A Witch Shall Be Born
Rogues in the House
Jewels of Gwahlur
Beyond the Black River
The Hour of the Dragon
Red Nails; Adventurer
At The Bazaar
Dreams Of Nineveh
The Gates of Nineveh
Empire’s Destiny

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A dozen men had their hands on their guns, but it wasn't that which made me give in. Pap had always taught me never to resist no officer of the law, so it was kind of instinctive for me to hand my gun over to Ormond and go along with him without no fight. I was kind of bewildered and my thoughts was addled anyway. I ain't one of these fast thinking sharps.

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The definitive 10-volume set of Robert E. Howard's weird fiction and poetry (with all texts meticulously restored to the original versions as published in Weird Tales and other magazines) continues with volume 7! This collection of classic Howard fiction begins with the story «The Grisly Horror» and also includes «Jewels of Gwahlur,» «Beyond the Black HIlls,» «The Challenge from Beyond» (cowritten with C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft, and Frank Belknap Long), and «Shadows in Zamboula.»

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The definitive 10-volume set of Robert E. Howard's weird fiction and poetry (with all texts meticulously restored to the original versions as published in Weird Tales and other magazines) continues with volume 7! This collection of classic Howard fiction begins with the story «The Grisly Horror» and also includes «Jewels of Gwahlur,» «Beyond the Black HIlls,» «The Challenge from Beyond» (cowritten with C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft, and Frank Belknap Long), and «Shadows in Zamboula.»

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