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Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American author famous for his weird tales and horror stories. Sea Curse is the tale which starts with a village tragedy. A local girl who lives with her elderly aunt has been seduced and deflowered by a swaggering, drunk sailor. In despair she drowns herself in the ocean. The sailor mocks her aunt over the girl's washed-up body on the beach. The old aunt retaliates by putting an awful, terrible curse upon the sailor and his mate....

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American author well known for his weird tales and horror fiction. In the Forest of Villefore is a grisly tale of a traveller passing through a dark forest at dusk who meets a mysterious masked stranger. The stranger offers to show the traveller the way to Villefore... but the path is dark and overgrown, and the circumstances become increasingly weird and threatening. As the tension builds, it becomes clear to the listener that something horrific is about to happen....

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American author famous for his weird tales and horror stories. The Dream Snake is a terrifying tale of a man who has had a recurring dream about being pursued by a sinister unseen giant snake which gets nearer and nearer to him every night....

The sylvan witch, Zelata, sends Conan forth on a quest that will take him back along all the long, weary trails he once trod on his way to the kingship of the greatest of the Hyborian nations. Along the way he'll battle traitorous noblemen, crafty bandits, scheming merchants, bloodthirsty pirates, mysterious assassins from the East, eldritch vampires from the tomb, and powerful Stygian wizard-priests - and in the end he'll face an enemy called up from the land's nightmare-haunted past, an evil, ancient wizard.

"Les aventures de Conan" sont une épopée haute en couleur, regorgeant d'exploits en tout genre, de personnages plus grands que nature, de décors fabuleux. Mais elles furent réarrangées après la mort d'Howard selon une chronologie arbitraire, réécrites ou modifiées par d'autres auteurs. Il était temps de rendre son œuvre à son créateur en publiant l'intégrale des nouvelles de "Conan" dans leurs versions authentiques écrites par Robert E. Howard.

When Robert Howard is assigned James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in his Catholic high school, his teacher, a Jesuit priest, announces, "Other people may read about it, but you are LIVING it!" As promised, the young Howard, growing up in 1970s Detroit, feels an intense identification with the protagonist of Joyce's first novel, Stephen Dedalus.

Solomon Kane had spent time at sea. What he saw could cause sleepless nights. Was it real? Was it imagination from being at sea for so long? Here his tale in a slightly chilling poem. Performed by Glenn Hascall.

A comedic western, "Mountain Man" is about the tall tales and big adventures of Brekenridge Elkins, an exaggerated, cartoonish version of Howard himself. The story first appeared in the March - April 1934 issue of Action Stories and was so popular that other magazines asked Howard for similar characters, giving birth to an entire series full of colorful characters.

When Dennis Dorgan is unexpectedly declared the loser in a boxing match against Kid Leary that he quite obviously won, he realizes something has gone amiss. The situation grows worse when his manager comes in and reveals that he has lost all his money and his ship because of the loss. When the crooked referee comes to Dorgan and tells him that the fight was fixed for a reason, Dorgan agrees to help him shake up the bad guy and straighten out the situation.

Solomon Kane was heading to Torkertown and had two routes to choose from a direct route across a moor, or a long tedious route through the swamps. Ignoring the warning of the villagers that he had just left behind, he decides that he will take the direct route across the moor. A young man of the village, seeing that Kane is heading towards the moor, rushes to beg him to please take the swamp route the next day instead of venturing through the moor at night.

Kull, king of Valusia, was overcome with unrest and was unsure of what he needed to do. A girl of the castle told him to seek Tuzun Thune, a wizard who knew all the secrets of life and death. When Kull visits the wizard, he learns that the wizard uses mirrors to allow Kull to look into the past and the future. But it is the mirror that shows only his own reflection that sends Kull into a distracting world of contemplation.

Dal genio di Robert E. Howard, la storia immaginaria del mondo di Conan il Barbaro. From the genius of Robert E. Howard, the imaginary history of the world of Conan the Barbarian.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Robert E. Howard's The Black Stone. This story is one of Howard's stories that can be considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos (H.P Lovecraft's worlds). A young man reads an ancient tome called "Nameless Cults" and discovers in it references to an artifact called "The Black Stone".

Aventurier errant et vagabond sur la Terre, Solomon Kane traque et tue impitoyablement ses ennemis dans un monde élisabéthain pris de folie: brigands et pirates, certes, mais aussi vampires et morts-vivants. Instrument de Dieu ou puritain fou habité par des forces qui le dépassent, qui est Solomon Kane? L'une des créations les plus originales de Robert E. Howard. Cette édition en deux exemplaires numériques, élaborée par Patrice Louinet, l'un des plus éminents spécialistes internationaux de Robert E. Howard et de son œuvre, contient l'intégralité́ des aventures.

Epic in scope and magically textured, Howard’s The People of the Black Circle is one of the most accomplished tales of Conan the Cimmerian. Conan drives us to magnificent mountain heights and subtle secret passes in order to foil a nefarious plot of the Black Seers of Yimsha.

Do scientists see conflict between science and faith? Which cultural factors shape the attitudes of scientists toward religion? Can scientists help show us a way to build collaboration between scientific and religious communities? To answer these questions and more, the authors of Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion completed the most comprehensive international study of scientists' attitudes toward religion ever undertaken, surveying more than 20,000 scientists and conducting in-depth interviews with over 600 of them.

An unplanned murder during a bank robbery has another sheriff on the trail of those on the lam.

A collection of eclectic poetry penned by three kings of Pulp fiction from the 1930s. Songs of Giants: The Poetry of Pulp is a collection of 26 poems by writers H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard. Inspired by the illustrated book of the same name by artist Mark Wheatley.

A collection of 45 short stories which threaten to unhinge the listener's mind. Strange phenomena, insane genius, inexplicable happenings and the inability to deal with life and death are all themes which run through this brilliant selection.

Follow the grim and righteous Solomon Kane as he uncovers dark secrets, ancient revenge, and spectral justice deep within a cursed forest. When a fellow traveler harbors deadly intentions and a tortured spirit longs for vengeance, the night spirals into blood, betrayal, and bone-rattling terror.