In his hugely influential and tempestuous career, Robert E. Howard created the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery-and brought to life one of fantasy's boldest and most enduring figures: conan the cimmerian-...In his hugely influential and tempestuous career, Robert E. Howard created the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery-and brought to life one of fantasy's boldest and most enduring figures: conan the cimmerian-reaver, slayer, barbarian, king. This lavishly illustrated volume gathers together three Of Howard's longest and most famous conan stories-two of them printed for the first time directly From Howard's typescript-along with a collection of the author's previously unpublished and rarely seen outlines, notes, and drafts.