Beyond the Black River and Other Stories

by Robert E. Howard

Overview

In his short life Robert E. Howard produced hundreds of short stories and works of poetry. Commonly associated with the era of pulp fiction he created numerous characters of which the most popular is Conan the Cimmerian. The titular story "Beyond the Black River" is considered one of Howard's best Conan stories. In it Conan battles the savage Hyborian Picts in the unsettled lands beyond the infamous Black River. "Beyond the Black River and Other Stories" is a collection of popular Conan stories which also include the following tales: "Jewels of Gwahlur," "Shadows in Zamboula," "The Hyborian Age," and "Red Nails."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420947984
Publisher:	Digireads.com Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Robert Ervin Howard (1906¿1936) wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard spent time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing—which he also wrote stories about. His tales of heroic & supernatural fantasy won him a huge audience across the world and influenced a whole generation of writers, from Robert Jordan to Raymond E. Feist.