Short Fiction

Robert E. Howard

Short Fiction — 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 muscle-bound and instinct-led hero, always willing to fight his way out of any fix. Collected here is a selection of Howard’s short fiction, including nine Conan stories, a reworking of another, and the history of Hyboria that Howard wrote as a guide for his writing. Gods of the North was originally a Conan story, but after its first rejection it was slightly rewritten with the hero renamed Amra; it was later republished as The Frost-Giant’s Daughter with Conan’s name restored. Most of the stories appeared in Weird Tales magazine between 1925 and 1936. They went on to inspire numerous licensed and unlicensed sequels, comics, films and games.

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