Best of
Sword-And-Sorcery

1969

Conan of Cimmeria


Robert E. Howard - 1969
    Sprague de Camp · in 15 · The Curse of the Monolith [“Conan and the Cenotaph”] · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss Worlds of Fantasy #1 ’68 33 · The Bloodstained God · L. Sprague de Camp & Robert E. Howard · nv Tales of Conan, Gnome, 1955 53 · The Frost-Giant’s Daughter [revised from “Gods of the North”, The Fantasy Fan, Mar ’34] · Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp · ss Fantasy Fiction Aug ’53 64 · The Lair of the Ice Worms · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss * 82 · Queen of the Black Coast · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss * 119 · The Vale of Lost Women · Robert E. Howard · ss Magazine of Horror Spr ’67 140 · The Castle of Terror · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · nv * 161 · The Snout in the Dark · L. Sprague de Camp, Robert E. Howard & Lin Carter · ss *

Bran Mak Morn: The Last King


Robert E. Howard - 1969
    Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard’s characters, none embodied his creator’s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race.In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism . . . all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race. Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, this collection gathers together all of Howard’s published stories and poems featuring Bran Mak Morn–including the eerie masterpiece “Worms of the Earth” and “Kings of the Night,” in which sorcery summons Kull the conqueror from out of the depths of time to stand with Bran against the Roman invaders. Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments, reproductions of manuscripts bearing Howard’s handwritten revisions, and much, much more. Special Bonus: a newly discovered adventure by Howard, presented here for the very first time.