Conan the Cimmerian the boy-thief who became a mercenary who fought & loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia Neither supernatural fiends nore demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword & dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian age Collected together in one volume for the very first time in chronological order are Robert E Howard's tales of the legendary hero as fresh & atmospheric today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines of more than seventy years ago Compiled by & with a foreward & afterword by award-winning writer & editor Stephen Jones