Robert E. Howard Genius of fantasy, master of the occult, creator of powerful heroes and heroic ages. Readers who have devoured the CONAN saga have only just begun to sample the wonders of the world's greatest writer of fantasy-adventure. Here, together for the first time, are stories that show the full spectrum of the genius of Robert E. Howard: ...Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, two sailors find traces of a lost civilization - and memories of their own impossible part in it! ...The "last words" of an operatic tenor bring the music of hell to the man who destroyed him. ...Turlogh O'Brien, mighty Gaelic warrior who serves no master but gold and blood, battles for a kingdom against the fearful ancient gods of Bal-Sagoth. All together for the first time in The Gods of Bal-Sagoth. Contents: The Gods of Bal-Sagoth Casonetto's Last Song King of the Forgotten People Usurp the Night Curse of the Golden Skull The Shadow of the Beast Nekht Semerkeht (Completed by Andrew J. Offutt) Restless Waters The Isle of the Eons (unfinished)
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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." He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. —Wikipedia Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
