For five centuries of Crusades, European armies of believers, fanatics, and mercenaries warred with the followers of the Prophet for control of Asia Minor and Palestine. From Jerusalem to Vienna, the frontier between West and East saw battle and bloodshed, treachery and butchery on a scale hitherto unknown and unimagined. The pageantry of medieval knighthood, the exoticism of the Orient, the ferocity of the invaders from the steppes, the mysteries of the seraglio, the rise and fall of great dynasties—these provided a real historical backdrop for some of Robert E. Howard’s greatest fiction. This volume contains the complete Oriental stories by the creator of Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane. Some were published in Farnsworth Wright’s Oriental Stories between 1930 and 1934; others were left unpublished and are printed here in authoritative texts based on the author’s surviving typescripts; and still others, left unfinished at his death, are presented as suggestive evidence of the work he had yet to do. As this collection attests, no one else writes action stories with Howard’s fast-paced intensity or brooding moral outlook. Here, the fates of empires rest on the swords of exiles, vagabonds, and renegades; whether civilization will be annihilated by religious zealots or by bloodthirsty barbarians, who is to say?

Lord Of Samarcand And Other Adventure Tales Of The Old Orient (The Works of Robert E. Howard series)

Literature & Fiction

Howard, Robert Ervin

Burke, Rusty

United States

University Of Nebraska Press

<p>"I was born in the little ex-cowtown of Peaster [Texas],” Robert E. Howard wrote to a friend, and the first story he ever published (in 1922) was a Western sketch. Although he went on to write hundreds of fantasy tales set in Conan’s Hyborian kingdoms, Kull’s ancient Atlantis, and Solomon Kane’s darkest Africa, his heart always remained in the West. In 1929 he began publishing Western tales, but they were unlike any the genre had ever seen—they didn’t have happy endings or perfect heroes. They were grimmer, more action packed, even cataclysmically violent. Howard was fascinated by outlaws and gunmen, especially those who “crossed over” to become lawmen, and he knew and interviewed many “old-timers—old law officers, trail drivers, cattlemen, buffalo hunters, and pioneers.” The twelve stories collected here show a West stripped down to essentials, where internalized codes of personal honor, loyalty, and courage matter more than laws, progress, or civilization. Also included are four articles, suggestive of his wide-ranging interests—from Billy the Kid to the eerie and unexplained happenings on the frontier. “To me the annals of the land pulse with blood and life,” Howard wrote, and his Western stories are full of memorable characters, heart-pounding action, and the distinctive prose generations of fans have come to know, and expect, and appreciate.</p>

The End Of The Trail: Western Stories (The Works of Robert E. Howard)

Howard,Robert E.

Genre Fiction

Bison Books

76 pages. Oversized trade paperback. Introduction by Ben Szumskyj. "An Introduction to the Life and Works of Robert E. Howard" and an interview with Glenn Lord by Joe Marek; an untitled dark fantasy/Cthulhu Mythos style story featuring John O'Dare by Robert E. Howard; "A Short History of the Conan Typescripts" by Patrice Louniet; "The Devil's Woodchopper" by Robert E. Howard; "Pages from 'As the Poet Says'" by Rusty Burke with Leo Grin; "Three Autobiographical Letters" by Robert E. Howard (to ARGOSY, and to Farnsworth Wright, and to Wilfred Blanch Talman; "And in This Corner, Hailing from Nazareth, or, What the Eddas Don't Tell You" by Scott Sheaffer (on Robert E. Howard's pagan/Viking/Celtic stories); "Double Cross" by Robert E. Howard (an Ace Jessel & John Taverel boxing story); "Am-Ra: Howard's Lost Hero" by Ben Szumskyj; "The Right Hook No. 1 Vol. 1" by Robert E. Howard, introduced by Tom Munnerlyn (unpublished Robert E. Howard material from a zine produc! ed by a nineteen-year old Robert E. Howard); "Some People Who Have Had Influence Over Me" by Robert E. Howard (a high school essay); afterword by Ben Szumskyj. Profusely illustrated by Gary Gianni, Rick Cortes, Mark Schultz, Rick McCollum, David Burton.

Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind

Grin, Leo

Sheaffer, Scott

Munnerlyn, Tom

LORD, GLENN

Szumskyj, Ben

Marek, Joe

Louinet, Patrice

Mythos Books LLC

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