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Conan, the Cimmerian barbarian, romps across the pages of Robert E. Howard's Hyborian adventures, slicing down enemy after enemy and trying not to fall too hard for a succession of ladies in need of rescue. Although very much a product of the pulp fantasy magazines of the 1930s, Conan has surpassed his contemporaries to become the quintessential barbarian of the fantasy genre: the musclebound and instinctled hero, always willing to fight his way out of any fix.
Collected here are Howard's public domain short stories, including ten Conan short stories and the history of Hyboria that Howard wrote as a guide for himself to write from. Gods of the North originally was a Conan story, but after being rejected by the first publisher was rewritten slightly to a character called Amra; it was later republished as The FrostGiant's Daughter with the name changed back. The stories were serialised (with a couple of exceptions) in Weird Tales magazine between 1925 and 1936, and have gone on to spawn multiple licensed and unlicensed sequels, comics, films and games.
Robert e. Howard
**Robert E. Howard** (1906–1936) est un écrivain américain, considéré comme l’un des pères de l’*heroic fantasy* moderne. Né et ayant vécu toute sa vie au Texas, il s’impose comme une figure majeure des pulps des années 1930 grâce à des récits d’aventure et de fantastique, dont la série **Conan le Cimmérien**. Son style, marqué par une imagination débordante et une prose dynamique, a profondément influencé la fantasy. Tragiquement, il met fin à ses jours à seulement 30 ans, laissant derrière lui une œuvre courte mais fondatrice.
