Crimson Shadows

The Best of Robert E Howard #1

Robert E. Howard

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Del Rey
15 November 2007

Fantasy; Sword & Sorcery

Series: The Best of Robert E. Howard

Joins the successful Del Rey library of Robert E. Howard's classic works, which have sold more than 125,000 copies in trade paperback.

These fully-illustrated volumes of original Robert E. Howard stories have been some of the most eagerly received Howard editions in decades.

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 illustrated by Jim and Ruth Keegan, includes some of his best and most popular works.

Inside, readers will discover (or rediscover) such gems as ""The Shadow Kingdom,"" featuring Kull of Atlantis and considered by many to be the first sword-and-sorcery story; ""The Fightin'est Pair,"" part of one of Howard's most successful series, chronicling the travails of Steve Costigan, a merchant seaman with fists of steel and a head of wood; ""The Grey God Passes,"" a haunting tale about the passing of an age, told against the backdrop of Irish history and legend; ""Worms of the Earth,"" a brooding narrative featuring Bran Mak Morn, about which H. P. Lovecraft said, ""Few readers will ever forget the hideous and compelling power of

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macabre masterpiece""; a historical poem relating a momentous battle between Cimbri and the legions of Rome; and ""Sharp's Gun Serenade,"" one of the last and funniest of the Breckinridge Elkins tales.

These thrilling, eerie, compelling, swashbuckling stories and poems have been restored to their original form, presented just as the author intended. There is little doubt that after more than seven decades the voice of Robert E. Howard continues to resonate with readers around the world.

By: Robert E. Howard
Imprint: Del Rey
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 687g
ISBN: 9780345490186
ISBN 10: 0345490185
Series: The Best of Robert E. Howard
Pages: 503
Publication Date: 15 November 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Crimson Shadows: The Best of Robert E Howard #1

Stories such as 'The People of the Black Circle' glow with the fierce and eldritch light of [Howard's] frenzied intensity. -Stephen King Robert E. Howard was a true storyteller-one of the first, and certainly among the best, you'll find in heroic fantasy. If you've never read him before, you're in for a real treat. -Charles de Lint In this, I think, the art of Robert E. Howard was hard to surpass: vigor, speed, vividness. And always there is that furious, galloping narrative pace. -Poul Anderson For headlong, nonstop adventure and for vivid, even florid, scenery, no one comes close to Howard. -Harry Turtledove