Fantasy & Horror

Fantasy, the Occult and Horror. Ghosts, Monsters, the Undead. Dragons, Swords and Sorcery.

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After the suicide of Robert E. Howard in 1936, readers were left wanting more stories of swords and sorcery similar to the Conan stories. Henry Kuttner (1915-1958) responded with the Elak of Atlantis stories.

In “Beyond The Black River”, Conan battles Picts, the wizard Zogar Sag, and a demon to save the settlers on the frontier of the Black River. Then, in “Shadows in Zamboula”, Conan battles cannibals, Baal-pteor the strangler of Yota-pong, and Totrasmek the priest of Hanuman  to secure the rule of the satrap of Zamboula.

Flames of Vengeance and Other Stories – Three tales from the supernatural casebook of Jules de Grandin, Occult Detective, including Pledged to the Dead, Flames of Vengeance and Incense of Abomination.

Red Nails (1936) by Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) – One of the strangest stories ever written—the tale of Conan- a barbarian adventurer, a woman pirate, and a weird roofed city inhabited by the most peculiar race of men ever spawned. Red Nails was serialized in Weird Tales in the July, August-September, and October 1936 issues.

Conan the Barbarian: The Beginnings contains the first three Conan novelettes as well as Robert E. Howard’s introduction to the Hyborian world of Conan.

The Man Who Cast No Shadow and Other Stories by Seabury Quinn (1889 – 1969) – three stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin.