Conan the Barbarian: The Beginnings

by AG Fishman (Editor), Robert E. Howard

Overview

Conan the Barbarian: The Beginnings by Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) contains the first three Conan novelettes as well as Howard's introduction to the Hyborian world of Conan.
vol. 1 (Conan, 1-3)

"Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in. Damnation! What would I not give for a flagon of wine!"

The Phoenix on the Sword (1932) – A soul-searing story of a fearsome monster spawned in darkness before the first man crawled out of the slimy sea

The Scarlet Citadel (1933) – A shuddery story of weird monstrosities in the underground crypts of Tsotha-lanti the magician – a tale of eery powers and red battle

The Tower of the Elephant (1933)- A strange blood-freezing story of an idol that wept on its throne and a valiant barbarian from the fringes of an elder civilization

The Hyborian Age (1936)- An introduction to the universe of Conan

Conan the Barbarian: The Beginnings has 5 illustrations.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161229224
Publisher:	PulpFictionBook.Store
Publication date:	02/09/2019
Series:	The Complete Conan the Barbarian , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Born and raised in Texas, Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) dreamed of becoming a fiction writer from the age of nine. He finally found success beginning with the publication of “Spear and Fang,” “which appeared in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales Magazine.

Howard was highly introverted and had a terrible temper which resulted in his repeated job loss. He worked odd jobs and wrote as much as he could. In 1928 he introduced his character "Solomon Kane" in the story "Red Shadows." In 1929 he wrote "The Shadow Kingdom" which introduced his character "Kull" from Atlantis, the forerunner to Conan. By the end of the 1920s, Howard was making a comfortable living off of his writing, selling most of his work to Weird Tales Magazine.

Howard is best known for his Conan the Barbarian stories. These were the culmination of the "Swords and Sorcery" genre of adventure he was instrumental in developing. The first Conan story, The Phoenix on the Sword was actually a Kull story that had been rejected and that he reworked. It was followed quickly by The Scarlet Citadel and The Tower of the Elephant. Howard wrote twenty-one Conan stories overall. In 1936, Howard published The Hyborian Age which had been his mythical outline of the world of Conan.