With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century--he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan wasn't the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howard's fertile imagination. "He...
In a city of the living dead, in a jungle ruled by a vampire queen, in a land where manlike things with the wings of huge bats prey on humans, Kane's indomitable will and courage carry him into battle against inconceivable horrors. Driven by impulses he himself does not understand,...
With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century-he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan was not the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howard's fertile imagination.
He...