The Shadow Kingdom and Other Tales

by Robert E. Howard

Overview

Robert E. Howard was an accomplished writer in many genres but is most celebrated for his high fantasy set in a long-forgotten heroic age. This new collection brings together tales of his early hero Kull the Atlantean, King of Valusia, the Pictish king Bran Mak Morn from the Roman period and James Allison, the man who can remember all his past lives. This volume contains The Shadow Kingdom, The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune, Kings of the Night, Worms of the Earth, The Lost Race, The Valley of the Worm and The Garden of Fear.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849023535
Publisher:	Benediction Classics
Publication date:	08/11/2011
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

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.