Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard was born January 22, 1906, southwest of Fort Worth. His father, a country physician, moved the family around Texas before settling in the small town of Cross Plains in 1919. While in high school, Howard began submitting stories to magazines, and Weird Tales magazine accepted Spear and Fang. Solomon Kane was the first of his continuing characters to see print; others included King Kull and Bran Mak Morn. Howard tried detective fiction, horror, and Paul Bunyanesque tales, then in 1933, Weird Tales introduced Conan the Cimmerian. In 1935 his mother was admitted to the King's Daughters Hospital. Told...
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eBook | 400 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Classics
978-0-345-52432-4 (0-345-52432-2)
January 25, 2011 | $13.99
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The immortal legacy of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Cimmerian, continues with this latest compendium of Howard’s fiction and poetry. These adventures, set in medieval-era Europe and the Near East, are among the most gripping Howard ever wrote, full of pageantry, romance, and battle scenes worthy of Tolstoy himself...
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Classics
978-0-345-50546-0 (0-345-50546-8)
January 25, 2011 | $20.00
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The immortal legacy of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Cimmerian, continues with this latest compendium of Howard’s fiction and poetry. These adventures, set in medieval-era Europe and the Near East, are among the most gripping Howard ever wrote, full of pageantry, romance, and battle scenes worthy of Tolstoy himself...
Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Classics
978-0-345-50545-3 (0-345-50545-X)
February 9, 2010 | $21.00
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Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes as Francis Xavier Gordon—known as “El Borak”—Kirby O’Donnell, and Steve Clarney...
eBook | 400 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Classics
978-0-345-51914-6 (0-345-51914-0)
February 9, 2010 | $13.99
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Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes as Francis Xavier Gordon—known as “El Borak”—Kirby O’Donnell, and Steve Clarney...
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Horror; Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-345-49020-9 (0-345-49020-7)
October 28, 2008 | $22.00
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Here are Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howard’s best-known characters–Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them–roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to...
eBook | pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Horror; Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-345-50974-1 (0-345-50974-9)
October 28, 2008 | $14.99
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Here are Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howard’s best-known characters–Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them–roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to...
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Fantasy - Epic; Fiction - Adventure
978-0-345-49019-3 (0-345-49019-3)
November 27, 2007 | $21.00
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“[Behind Howard’s stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams.”
–Robert Bloch
“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”
–Stephen King
The classic pulp magazines of the early twentieth century are long gone, but their action-packed tales live on through the work of legendary...
eBook | pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Fantasy - Epic; Fiction - Adventure
978-0-345-50250-6 (0-345-50250-7)
November 27, 2007 | $13.99
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“[Behind Howard’s stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams.”
–Robert Bloch
“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”
–Stephen King
The classic pulp magazines of the early twentieth century are long gone, but their action-packed tales live on through the work of legendary...
eBook | pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Fantasy - Epic; Fiction - Adventure
978-0-345-50055-7 (0-345-50055-5)
August 14, 2007 | $14.99
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Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre–and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian–Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more. This spectacular volume, gorgeously...
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Fantasy - Epic; Fiction - Adventure
978-0-345-49018-6 (0-345-49018-5)
August 14, 2007 | $22.00
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Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre–and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian–Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more. This spectacular volume, gorgeously...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Fantasy - Epic; Fiction - Adventure
978-0-345-49017-9 (0-345-49017-7)
October 31, 2006 | $21.00
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“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”
–Stephen King
“Robert E. Howard had a gritty, vibrant style–broadsword writing that cut its way to the heart, with heroes who are truly larger than life.”
–David Gemmell
In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard...
eBook | pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Fantasy - Epic; Fiction - Adventure
978-0-345-49559-4 (0-345-49559-4)
October 31, 2006 | $13.99
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“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”
–Stephen King
“Robert E. Howard had a gritty, vibrant style–broadsword writing that cut its way to the heart, with heroes who are truly larger than life.”
–David Gemmell
In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard...
eBook | pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Adventure; Fiction
978-0-345-48461-1 (0-345-48461-4)
May 31, 2005 | $13.99
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From Robert E. Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard’s characters, none embodied his creator’s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race.
In ages past, the Picts ruled all of...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Adventure; Fiction
978-0-345-46154-4 (0-345-46154-1)
May 31, 2005 | $20.00
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From Robert E. Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard’s characters, none embodied his creator’s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race.
In ages past, the Picts ruled all of...
eBook | pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Fantasy; Fiction - Adventure; Fiction
978-0-345-47851-1 (0-345-47851-7)
June 29, 2004 | $13.99
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With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century—he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan wasn’t the first archetypal
adventurer to spring from Howard’s fertile imagination.
“He was . . . a strange...















