“…And Their Memory was a Bitter Tree”
Robert E. Howard. Black Bart, 2008. Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) wrote over three hundred stories of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction, all packed with raw power and unbridled emotion and ranks among the greatest writers of action and adventure. He is best known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such characters as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.

This book collects nine of Howard's most electrifying Conan adventures. Featuring warring armies, devilish creatures, beautiful women, and haunted jungles – all wonderfully illustrated in colour by Frank Frazetta and Brom. 416 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 7" x 10" (180mm x 255mm) (ISBN-13: 9781599290225)

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The Black Stranger and Other American Tales
Robert E. Howard. Bison Books, 2005. Robert E. Howard is celebrated as the founding father of sword-and-sorcery, the creator of Conan of Cimmeria and Kull of Atlantis. The Black Stranger and Other American Tales demonstrates that in some of his most powerful heroic fantasy and horror stories, he also explored a New World older and more haunted than that which we've seen in textbooks or museum exhibits. In Howard's Gothic America, dominion goes hand in hand with damnation and the present never ceases to writhe in the grip of the past.

"The Black Stranger" spearheads the collection. Located at the extreme edge of Hyborian geography and human ruthlessness, this Conan novella has seldom been available until now. All of the Cimmerian's lethal skills may not be enough inside a stockade that shelters a self-exiled, pirate-plagued count, besieged from without and bedeviled from within. Against the backdrop of a demonically hostile dreadwood, Howard recreates the worst nightmares of the earliest European invaders of North America.

In the tales that follow, Howard unearths sinister civilizations that have forgotten the mysteries of their origins on American soil tens of thousands of years ago. That soil is a dark and bloody ground, beneath which the monstrous heirs of ancient wrongs and unsuspected wars wait. A Comanche champion and a lone conquistador stumble upon empires carved out of the primordial Southwest by necromancers. Hot hate given cold flesh lurches on zuvembie legs in "Pigeons from Hell" and lurks in the shuddersome swamps of the Deep South in "Black Canaan."

These stories, here refurbished with authoritative, unexpurgated texts, have transcended the Thirties pulps in which they first saw print. With their unflinching focus on original American sin and even more original sinners, some are sure to take their place next to dark classics like "Young Goodman Brown," "Benito Cereno," and "A Rose for Emily." 352 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 5" x 8" (127mm x 203mm) (ISBN-13: 9780803273535)

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Boxing Stories
Robert E. Howard. Bison Books, 2005. Although he is best known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian and as a writer of historical fiction and fantasy, Robert E. Howard was both a successful author of popular boxing stories and an avid amateur boxer himself. The sixteen stories and three poems collected in this volume show the full range of his talents for action, humor, and fistic philosophy.

Ten of the stories feature the sailor Steve Costigan, a lovable, hard-fisted, and innocent semipro pugilist, who takes on dastardly villains in exotic ports of call. Howard's brilliant blue-collar humor belies his preoccupation with the real-life issues near and dear to his heart—death, honor, pride, and a man's love for his dog.

Other stories are more dramatic and somber, including “Iron Men,” which Howard called “the best fight story I ever wrote—in many ways the best story of any kind I ever wrote.” Severely edited and truncated for its original publication in 1930 in Fight Stories magazine, the tale has never been published in its original form—until now. It appears here, completely restored from Howard's original typescript, in an authoritative version that Howard fans everywhere will appreciate.

In these stories Howard created a realistic, richly populated boxing universe, with intertwining characters and histories that carry on from tale to tale. With them he takes his place in a tradition of American boxing writers but always with a uniquely Howardian twist, a gritty brooding atmosphere, and a reserve of humor that captures the often brutal ambiance of the 1930s. 314 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 5" x 8" (127mm x 203mm) (ISBN-13: 9780803273528)

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The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard with Illustrations by Greg Staples. Ballantine Books, 2008. Here are Howard's greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howard's best-known characters –Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them– roam the forbidding locales of the author's fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa.

The collection includes Howard's masterpiece “Pigeons from Hell,” which Stephen King calls “one of the finest horror stories of [the twentieth] century,” a tale of two travellers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation–and into the maw of its fatal secret. In “Black Canaan” even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers–and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare “Worms of the Earth” and “The Cairn on the Headland,” Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the world's great masters of the macabre.

Robert E. Howard, renowned creator of Conan the Barbarian, was also a master at conjuring tales of hair-raising horror. In a career spanning only twelve years, Howard wrote more than a hundred stories, with his most celebrated work appearing in Weird Tales, the pre-eminent pulp magazine of the era. 560 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 6" x 9" (155mm x 235mm) (ISBN-13: 9780345490209)

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The Riot at Bucksnort and Other Western Tales
Robert E. Howard. Bison Books, 2005. Robert E. Howard turned to writing comic and dialect Western tales only late in his career, but he found an immediate and continuously successful market for them, and they are in many respects his most accomplished and polished works.

The sixteen tales collected here are some of the best of his stories, featuring Breckinridge Elkins, Pike Bearfield, and Buckner J. Grimes—three inimitable characters who lead well-intentioned lives of perpetual confusion, mischance, and outright catastrophe. Fifteen of the stories were published between 1934 and 1937 in Action Stories, Argosy, or Cowboy Stories; the other remained unpublished for more than thirty years.

Many of these stories were rewritten for book publication and have never been reprinted in their original form. They are reminiscent of traditional southwestern tall tales, told in dialect, featuring larger-than-life characters, swift action, broad satire, and wry humor. 256 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 5" x 8" (127mm x 203mm) (ISBN-13: 9780803273542)

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“…And Their Memory was a Bitter Tree” (Signed) (Limited Edition)
Robert E. Howard. Black Bart, 2008. Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) wrote over three hundred stories of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction, all packed with raw power and unbridled emotion and ranks among the greatest writers of action and adventure. He is best known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such characters as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.

This book collects nine of Howard's most electrifying Conan adventures. Featuring warring armies, devilish creatures, beautiful women, and haunted jungles – all wonderfully illustrated in colour by Frank Frazetta and Brom. 416 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 7" x 10" (180mm x 255mm) (ISBN-13: 9781599290232)
Deluxe slipcased clothbound edition LIMITED to 500 copies. Signed and Numbered by the renowned fantasy artist Brom, with an extra print by the artist.

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