" Behind Howard's stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams."
-Robert Bloch
"Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks."
-Stephen King
The classic pulp magazines of the early twentieth century are long gone, but their action-packed tales live on through the work of legendary storyteller Robert E. Howard. From his fecund imagination sprang an army of larger-than-life heroes-including the iconic Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn-as well as adventures that would...

Facsimile reprint of the July, 1933 issue of the legendary pulp magazine, "The Magic Carpet." Included in this volume are works by H. Bedford-Jones, Robert E. Howard, Seabury Quinn, more.

Here are Howard's greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howard's best-known characters-Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them-roam the forbidding locales of the author's fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa.

The collection includes Howard's masterpiece "Pigeons from Hell," which Stephen King calls "one of the finest horror stories of the twentieth] century," a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern...