Robert E : 1478 books

The cliffs rose sheer from the jungle, towering ramparts of stone that glinted jade-blue and dull crimson in the rising sun, and curved away and away to east and west above the waving emerald ocean of fronds and leaves. It looked insurmountable, that giant palisade with its sheer curtains of solid...

In the short story "The Slithering Shadow", Conan is one of the few survivors of a huge battle. Surrounded, he escapes into the desert. On the verge of death, he finds an ancient city which hides a sinister foe.

Once it was called Eski-Hissar, the Old Castle, for it was very ancient even when the first Seljuks swept out of the east, and not even the Arabs, who rebuilt that crumbling pile in the days of Abu Bekr, knew what hands reared those massive bastions among the frowning foothills of the Taurus. Now,...

December 1941: Jessica Richards, daughter of corrupt New Orleans councilman Whitman Richards, is the victim of a sensational daylight kidnapping from the grounds of a Catholic girls’ academy. Richards, a man with many enemies, outrages both his wife and police Captain Frank Casey by throwing the police...

THE MOONLIGHT shimmered hazily, making silvery mists of illusion among the shadowy trees. A faint breeze whispered down the valley, bearing a shadow that was not of the moon-mist. A faint scent of smoke was apparent. The man whose long, swinging strides, unhurried yet unswerving, had carried him for...

"Shadows in the Moonlight" (Howard's original title was "Iron Shadows in the Moon") is a Conan novellette. It begins when a female lovely named Olivia, having fled captivity from the city of Akif, is chased down and cornered in a marsh, on the edge of the Vilayet Sea. Her pursuer...

Conan becomes a chief of the Afghuli tribes ,and battles the Vendhyans and against the dread wizards of Mount Yimsha. This is Conan the Barbarian at his best.

The horror first took concrete form amid that most unconcrete of all things–a hashish dream. I was off on a timeless, spaceless journey through the strange lands that belong to this state of being, a million miles away from earth and all things earthly; yet I became cognizant that something was...

The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn Sadaka of Hilla and the desert, the steel-clad bodies lay strewn like the drift of a storm. The great...

After rescuing a beautiful maiden, Conan escapes to a remote island where he encounters a skulking creature and mysterious iron statues, and is captured by pirates. Is this the end for Conan?

The long low craft which rode off-shore had an unsavory look, and lying close in my covert, I was glad that I had not hailed her. Caution had prompted me to conceal myself and observe her crew before making my presence known, and now I thanked my guardian spirit; for these were troublous times and strange craft haunted the Caribees.

Centering around a group of lively guests trapped in a Swiss hotel at the outbreak of the First World War, including a honeymooning couple, this Pulitzer Prize winning indictment of war and fanatical nationalism before World War II premiered on Broadway and ran for 300 performances.

A body is discovered. Mutilated beyond recognition, perched upon a hill overlooking the village. Questions are raised. Prayers are offered. Fears grow as rumours are spread behind the Walls of Woodmyst. They come at night. Lurking in the forest nearby, the strangers watch and wait. Who are...

Darkness approaches and death comes with it. The Mirikin advance. Their forces are mighty. Cities crumble and fall. Humanity burns. The White Witch returns for vengeance. This time, she has the Mistresses and their armies at her disposal. A prophecy is unveiled and a new power emerges in the form...