![]() ![]() ![]() Collected in this volume, profusely illustrated by artist Mark Schultz, are Howard's first thirteen Conan stories, appearing in their original versions-in some cases for the first time in more than seventy years-and in the order Howard wrote them. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. ![]() ![]() to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."Conan is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created-a swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, facing powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of thieves and reavers.In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years before his tragic suicide, Robert E. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand. there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. "Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities. ![]()
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