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Sword-And-Sorcery

2005

Conan, Vol. 1: The Frost Giant's Daughter and Other Stories


Kurt Busiek - 2005
    Now Conan's earliest adventures are collected in a handsome 192-page collection. Catch all the action and savagery as he wars with the murderous Vanir, meets the Frost Giant's Daughter, and is taken as a slave by the ancient sorcerers of Hyperborea! This top-selling new series faithfully expands on original author Robert E. Howard's literary creation. Collecting issues #0-#6 and fourteen pages from issue #7 of the ongoing series.• "Writer Kurt Busiek treats him with the dignified respect due one of the towering figures in fantasy literature ... it feels like historians unearthed a vibrant, bloody tapestry. These are, once again, the days of high adventure."-Entertainment Weekly

Shadow Kingdoms (The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard #1)


Robert E. Howard - 2005
    Howard, presenting all of Howard's work for the pulp magazine Weird Tales meticulously restored to its original magazine texts. Edited by Paul Herman. Introduction by Mark Finn. Cover by Stephen Fabian. This volume contains: Two-Gun Musketeer: Robert E. Howard's Weird Tales, by Mark Finn; Spear and Fang, In the Forest of Villefere, Wolfshead, The Lost Race, The Song of the Bats, The Ride of Falume, The Riders of Babylon, The Dream Snake, The Hyena, Remembrance, Sea Curse, The Gates of Nineveh, Red Shadows, The Harp of Alfred, Easter Island, Skulls in the Stars, Crete, Moon Mockery, Rattle of Bones, Forbidden Magic, The Shadow Kingdom, The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune, The Moor Ghost, Red Thunder.

Tavern Tales


Jennifer Andersen - 2005
    Enjoy the ride as some of the newest rising stars of fiction bring you to a world of imagination and adventure. Packed with stories that would appeal to any taste, Tavern Tales brings together stories that are guaranteed to cast a spell on readers. Titles The Young Roui Get into the mood with a lead in by Christopher Heath as he explores the dangers of arrogance mixed with vices. Reunion Travel the road much less traveled in Lucinda Siverling's story of a young elven sorceress as she travels from her world to an Arthurian Britain. Watch as the love of a human can bring the two worlds together. Nightmare on Almstrat Let Ramsey and Margaret S. Lundock show you what happens when greed inspires a couple of harvesters after the most dangerous magic items. Jura the Wanderer H. Winterthorne shows us what happens when one who is considered a monster saves one who is considered damned. Follow this wonderful story's search for redemption. The Wraith's Forest Fairy tales and haunted woods lead us through Judith Leger's story of one girl with the weight of a village on her shoulders and the attention of a very unlikely soul. The Errant Daughter To be young and defiant Jennifer Lee introduces us to a young sorceress fascinated by life but smothered by her father. Go with her as she stumbles down the road to independence and adventure.