Robert E. Howard: Coming of Conan the Cimmerian SC

ROBERT E. HOWARD: COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN SC - (Robert E. Howard, featuring illustrations by Mark Schultz) Considered among the most exciting fantasy adventures ever published, Robert E. Howard's series of epic stories featuring Conan-the swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, facing powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of thieves and reavers-single-handedly defined the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. Collected in this volume, profusely illustrated by artist Mark Schultz, are Howard's first thirteen Conan stories, appearing in their original versions, as well as a wealth of material never before published in the United States, including the first submitted draft of Conan's debut, Phoenix on the Sword, Howard's synopsis for The Scarlet Citadel and Black Colossus, and a map of Conan's world as rendered by the author himself. 496 pp.