To please his would-be father-in-law, Eudoric must obtain two square yards of dragon hide! Only then can he claim his knightly spurs and the hand of the beautiful Lusina. But Eudoric quickly discovers that battles with dragons go much better in...
King Jorian was rather attached to his head. Hence, he felt his promise to steal the Kist of Avlen, a treasure trove of ancient manuscripts containing magical lore, was a small enough price to pay for a chance to escape his own beheading. But when...
The greatest hero of Hyborian times was not a Hyborian but a barbarian, Conan the Cimmerian, about whose name whole cycles of legend revolve.
From the elder civilizations of Hyborian and Atlantean times, only a few fragmentary, half-legendary...
Continuing his northward trek, now speeded by his possession of a horse, Conan at last reaches the semi-civilized kingdom of Kush. This is the land to which the name 'Kush' properly applies, although Conan, like other northerners, tends to use the...
As chieftain of this mongrel Red Brotherhood, Conan is more than ever a thorn in King Yildiz’s sensitive flesh. That henpecked monarch, instead of strangling his brother Teyaspa in the approved Turanian manner, has been prevailed upon to keep him...
Haunted by Atali's icy beauty and bored with the simple life of the Cimmerian villages, Conan rides south toward the civilized realms, hoping to find a ready market for his sword as a condottiere in the service of various Hyborian princelings. At...
Becoming fed up with the City of Thieves (and vice versa) Conan wanders westward to the capital of Zamora, Shadizar the Wicked. Here, he hopes, the pickings will be richer. For a time he is indeed, more successful in his thievery than he had been in...
Fed up with civilization and its magic, Conan rides back to his native Cimmeria. After a month or two of wenching and drinking, however, he grows restless enough to join his old friends, the Msir, in a raid into...
Conan may or may not have made good his boast to burn Jehungir's city of Khawarizm, but in any event he builds his combined kozak and pirate raiders into so formidable a threat that King Yezdigerd calls off his march of empire to crush them. The...