Conan's Brethren

Resumen del libro

A sumptuous collection of epic fantasy heroes from the pen of Robert E. Howard, one of the true Masters of Fantasy Robert E. Howard was a pulpwriter who turned his hand to everything from historical adventure and detective stories to Western and boxing fiction - and invented the genre now known as sword-and-sorcery: it is for these tales of heroic fantasy and horror that he is best remembered.

His mighty heroes - including an English Puritan adventurer sent on redressing grievous wrongs, the king of a mythical, antediluvian empire contemporary with Atlantis, a Pictish warrior-king - all these brothers of the sword and more bestrode the pages of WEIRD TALES and the other pulp magazines of the twenties and thirties. This companion volume follows on from the success of the first Gollancz Big Black Book featuring Howard's world-famous barbarian king, and contains all the stories featuring his brothers-in-arms, collected together in chronological order, as fresh and atmospheric today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines of more than eighty years ago. Compiled by and with an Afterword by award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones, and with cover image, frontispiece and internal pictures by the award-winning artist Les Edwards.

Biografía del autor

(Peaster, Texas, 1906 -Cross Plains, Texas, 1936) fue uno de los impulsores de los relatos de espada y brujería que publicó durante los años treinta, fundamentalmente en la revista Weird Tales. Influyó poderosamente en la moderna fantasía heroica con personajes tan populares como primarios, entre los que destacan Conan el Bárbaro, Kull de Atlantis, Solomon Kane y el guerrero picto Bran Mak Morn, muchos de ellos llevados al cómic y ocasionalmente al cine. Solitario y huraño, desde 1924 mantuvo una estrecha relación epistolar con Howard P. Lovecraft. Muy ligado a su madre, cuando esta entró en coma, él se suicidó.