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The dagger flashed downward. A sharp cry broke in a gasp. The form on the rough altar twitched convulsively and lay still. The jagged flint edge sawed at the crimsoned breast, and thin bony fingers, ghastly dyed, tore out the still- twitching heart. Under matted white brows, sharp eyes gleamed with a ferocious intensity.

Shadows in Zamboula is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in November, 1935. Its original title was „The Man-Eaters of Zamboula”. The story takes place over the course of a night in the desert city of Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming cannibals. It features the character Baal-pteor, one of the few humans in the Conan stories to be a physical challenge for the main Cimme...

The cliffs rose sheer from the jungle, towering ramparts of stone that glinted jade-blue and dull crimson in the rising sun, and curved away and away to east and west above the waving emerald ocean of fronds and leaves. It looked insurmountable, that giant palisade with its sheer curtains of solid rock in which bits of quartz winked dazzlingly in the sunlight. But the man who was working his tedious way upward was already halfway to the top.

Rogues in the House is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1934. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan inadvertently becoming involved in the power play between two powerful men fighting for control of a city. It was the seventh Conan story Howard had published.

The moonlight shimmered hazily, making silvery mists of illusion among the shadowy trees. A faint breeze whispered down the valley, bearing a shadow that was not of the moon-mist. A faint scent of smoke was apparent. The man whose long, swinging strides, unhurried yet unswerving, had carried him for many a mile since sunrise, stopped suddenly. A movement in the trees had caught his attention, and he moved silently toward the shadows, a hand resting lightly on the hilt of hi...

Shadows in the Moonlight is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in April 1934. Howard originally named his story „Iron Shadows in the Moon”. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan escaping to a remote island in the Vilayet Sea where he encounters the Red Brotherhood, a skulking creature, and mysterious iron ...

In this final (chronologically) Conan story, Howard demonstrates why he was one of the best adventure writers of all time. In the only novel he ever produced, Howard is able to maintain the blistering pace he is known for, while still weaving a complex and interesting tale. The story is set during Conan’s time as King of Aquilonia, which is a period in the hero’s life often overlooked.

A powerful wizard named Thugra Khotan is awoken from his three-thousand year sleep by an audacious yet unlucky Zamoran thief named Shevatas. Thugra wakes with dreams of world domination. He assumes the name Natohk, the Veiled One, gathers an army of desert tribes and sets out to conquer the Hyborian nations.

Professor John Kirowan is a fictional character from Robert E. Howard’s contributions to H.P. Lovecraft’s story cycle „the Cthulhu Mythos”. Kirowan is often partnered with the character John Conrad, to the extent that these stories are often referred to under the group title Conrad & Kirowan. Professor Kirowan is a younger son of a titled Irish family and a scholar of the Mythos who travelled widely in search of forbidden knowledge. His ancestor, Sir Michael Kirowan was...

Good collection of stories. Black Canaan is a favorite of mine. I have some doubts that REH would have finished „The House” with the suicide of John Conrad, but it is a Lovecraftian ending (Augest Derleth finished the REH fragment in this volume).

A young settler named Balthus walks blissfully unaware through a forest trail when the sound of combat draws his attention. He hides behind a tree and sees Conan step into the open, having just slain a Pictish robber who was about to ambush Balthus. Conan had been tracking the Pict for some hours, as he has been chasing the encroaching Picts on commission from nearby Fort Tuscelan.

An Earthman transported to Almuric, a remote alien world where he must contend with apelike humans, winged monsters, and other sinister forces. Robert E. Howard’s collection of fantastic fantasy science fiction short stories will not fail to entertain!

The creator of Conan looks to the stars in one of fantasy’s most enduring science fantasy classics! Robert E. Howard’s Almuric is a savage planet of crumbling stone ruins and debased, near-human inhabitants. Into this world comes Esau Cairn, Earthman, swordsman, murderer. Only he can overthrow the terrible devils that enslave Almuric, but to do so he must first defeat the inner demons that forced him to abandon Earth.

„Skórzany lejek” to krótka, raczej upiorna opowieść, która koncentruje się na wizji snu, która nawiązuje do czasów, w tym przypadku do XVII wieku, kiedy ludzi torturowano przy pomocy najbardziej wyszukanych metod. Jak można się spodziewać, jest to bardzo dobrze napisana i interesująca opowieść – jakby gotycka wersja niesławnego historycznego przypadku markiza de Brinvillliersa. Historia opowiadała o gościu, który odwiedził dom angielskiego kolekcjonera niezwykły...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. „Kraina mgieł” jest trzecią z cyklu książką opowiadającą o perypetiach profesora Challengera, jego współtowarzysza dziennikarza Malone’a i miłośnika przygód lorda Roxtona, których można było wcześniej spotkać w powieściach „Zaginiony świat” i „Trujące pasmo”. W tej powieści wkroczymy jednak nie w świat materialny, chociaż różniący się od tego, w którym żyjemy,...

UWAGA! e-book jest skanem zapisanym w formacie PDF. Plik pdf uniemożliwia przeszukiwanie i kopiowanie tekstu. REPRINT. Z wprowadzenia: „Był czas, niepowrotnie miniony, kiedy to greckość starano się estetycznie pojmować i dopatrywać się w kulturze helleńskiej, zwłaszcza w sztuce, harmonii życia i piękna. która zapewne była udziałem nielicznych poszczególnych jednostek i gościła na szczytach społeczeństwa, nie potrafiła jednak przeniknąć do dolin, by u...

UWAGA! e-book jest skanem zapisanym w formacie PDF. Plik pdf uniemożliwia przeszukiwanie i kopiowanie tekstu. REPRINT. Mieszkańcy francuskiego miasta Tuluzy z drugiej połowy XIX wieku znali dobrze charakterystyczną wyniosłą postać, o rysach ascety i arystokraty zarazem, sędziwego księdza de La Tour de Noe. Wyzuty przez rewolucje z dóbr rodowych hrabia de Noe, jako ksiądz i erudyta osiadł w Tuluzie i poświęcił się studiom iście benedyktyńskim, w pyle ...

UWAGA! e-book jest skanem zapisanym w formacie PDF. Plik pdf uniemożliwia przeszukiwanie i kopiowanie tekstu. REPRINT. Aleksander Świętochowski (1849-1938) – polski pisarz, publicysta, filozof i historyk, aforysta, krytyk, publicysta polityczny, działacz społeczny. Twórczość Świętochowskiego obejmuje dzieła o tematyce filozoficzno-moralnej oraz historii idei. (za: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Świętochowski). Niniejsza publikacja to znak...

The Kai Lung books are really short-story collections, whose disparate, rambling tales are knitted together by framing narratives featuring the eponymous travelling storyteller. The third in Bramah’s Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. „Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat”, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and...

The second volume of amusing Chinese fantasies. A captivating collection that’s ripe for rediscovery, „Kai Lung’s Golden Hours” stands as the very best of these beguiling books. As with other Kai Lung novels, the main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. With the help of beautiful Hwa Mei, who has the attention of evil Ming Shu, Kai tries ...

„The Wallet of Kai Lung” is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. These tales of an unlikely but marvelous China are classic works of fantasy, with each story holding a story-within-a-story. Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung is a storyteller in an imagined China, telling tales of earnest examination candidates, corrupt mandarins, beautiful maidens, alchemical potions,...

This charming, little-known fantasy by the author of „The Time Machine” and „The War of the Worlds” is also a sharply satirical look at the mores and moral of Edwardian England. During a family outing at the beach a family sees a young woman struggling further out in the water. It’s only when they „rescue” her that they see that she’s a mermaid. They quickly take her into the beach house, still unaware that the mermaid has planned the whole incident in order to meet a young...

Zwieńczenie monumentalnego cyklu fantasy, który pokochało ponad 40 milionów czytelników na świecie Na Polu Merrilora gromadzą się władcy narodów, żeby zdecydować o swoim poparciu dla planów Smoka Odrodzonego, który zdecydował się zerwać pieczęcie strzegące więzienie Czarnego – w oczach jednych jest to oznaka obłędu, inni widzą w tym ostatnią nadzieję dla świata. Egwene, Zasiadająca na Tronie Amyrlin, staje na czele opozycji. Tymczasem… Cień uderza na stolicę Andoru, troll...

Na skutek tragicznego wypadku tajemnicze moce przenoszą Amerykanina Hanka Martina, z zawodu kowala, na dwór legendarnego króla Artura. Z miejsca popada w tarapaty. Uwięziony przez sir Sagramora zostaje uznany za ludożercę i wtrącony do lochu, gdzie oczekuje na wykonanie wyroku śmierci. Hank nie byłby jednak sobą ani tym bardziej sprytnym Jankesem, gdyby nie próbował wyjść cało z tarapatów. Szybko wkrada się w łaski króla i zostaje pasowany na rycerza. Naraża się jednak poryw...