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 ...

The horror first took concrete form amid that most unconcrete of all things–a hashish dream. I was off on a timeless, spaceless journey through the strange lands that belong to this state of being, a million miles away from earth and all things earthly; yet I became cognizant that something was reaching across the unknown voids–something that tore ruthlessly at the separating curtains of my illusions and intruded itself into my visions.

”I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom’s realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer’s Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue...

If you like your horror with a western twist then these tales are for you. Awesome occult western adventure, from the master of strange fiction, Robert E. Howard! This collection includes the following stories: „THE HORROR FROM THE MOUND”, „THE MAN ON THE GROUND”, „OLD GARFIELD’S HEART”, „BLACK CANAAN”, „THE DEAD REMEMBER”, „PIGEONS FROM HELL” and others. Kind of like „Dreams at the Witch House” by Lovecraft but mixed with Howard’s own legends. „Tales of the Weird Southwest...

Honore de Balzac - pisarz francuski, ojciec powieści realistycznej. Jako student prawa, porzucił naukę, by oddać się literaturze. Jeden z najbardziej pracowitych pisarzy w dziejach literatury, pozostawił około 100 powieści, w większości napisanych w latach 1829-1850, które złożyły się na monumentalny cykl zatytułowany "Komedia ludzka".

Honore de Balzac - pisarz francuski, ojciec powieści realistycznej. Jako student prawa, porzucił naukę, by oddać się literaturze. Jeden z najbardziej pracowitych pisarzy w dziejach literatury, pozostawił około 100 powieści, w większości napisanych w latach 1829-1850, które złożyły się na monumentalny cykl zatytułowany "Komedia ludzka".

Pierwsze wydanie Żywotów świętych Pańskich, autorstwa o. Hugo Hoevera SOCist, w języku polskim ukazało si. nakładem Warmińskiego Wydawnictwa Diecezjalnego. Przekładu na język polski dokonał Zbigniew Pniewski. Krótkie biogramy świętych i błogosławionych prezentowane są według zatwierdzonego przez Stolicę Świętą kalendarza rzymskiego. Oryginał Żywotów wydano w Kanadzie, a ponieważ ich autor jest Amerykaninem, toteż w wydaniu oryginalnym przeważały przede wszystkim...

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the sword and sorcery genre. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s most enduring heroes. Yet while Conan is indisputably Howard’s greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the b...

The Pool of the Black One is one of the original short stories starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming the captain of a pirate vessel and encountering a remote island with a mysterious pool that has powers of transmutation.

Robert E. Howard turned to writing comic and dialect Western tales only late in his career, but he found an immediate and continuously successful market for them, and they are in many respects his most accomplished and polished works. „The Pike Bearfield Stories” is a collection of stories in the western genre, featuring Pike Bearfield – the character who lead well-intentioned lives of perpetual confusion, mischance, and outright catastrophe. It includes: „While the Smoke R...

A great black shadow lay across the land, cleaving the red flame of the red sunset. To the man who toiled up the jungle trail it loomed like a symbol of death and horror, a menace brooding and terrible, like the shadow of a stealthy assassin flung upon some candle-lit wall.

The tales of James Allison take place both in modern times and in the far past, in that time after the Hyborian kingdoms of Conan. Allison is a crippled Texan who lost a leg when his horse fell on him. To escape boredom and sadness he ventures into the past, exploring his previous lives as mighty warriors. All these ancestors were members of a migration of Aryans as they traveled the world in search of a homeland.

The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn Sadaka of Hilla and the desert, the steel-clad bodies lay strewn like the drift of a storm. The great canal men called the Nile, which connected the Euphrates with the distant Tigris, was choked with the bodies of the tribesmen, and survivors were panting in flight toward the whit...

The long low craft which rode off-shore had an unsavory look, and lying close in my covert, I was glad that I had not hailed her. Caution had prompted me to conceal myself and observe her crew before making my presence known, and now I thanked my guardian spirit; for these were troublous times and strange craft haunted the Caribees.

This having happened to me I sat still on my brother Bill’s horse, because that’s the best thing you can do when a feller is p’inting a cocked.45 at your wishbone. This feller was a mean-looking hombre in a sweaty hickory shirt with brass rivets in his leather hat band, and he needed a shave. He said, „Who are you? Where you from? Where you goin’? What you aimin’ to do when you get there?

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Po aferze szpiegowskiej w domu wujka Niki i Tesla Holt mają wreszcie okazję, aby się odprężyć i wziąć udział w otwarciu niezwykłej wystawy w X-tremalnym Naukorium. Niestety sprawy szybko się komplikują i kochające naukę, eksperymenty oraz kłopoty rodzeństwo musi wkroczyć do akcji i wymyślić coś EKSTRA! 

"Renia jest bardzo szczęśliwa, gdy jamniczka jej ciotki rodzi szczenięta. Rodzice mają dla dziewczynki wspaniałą niespodziankę: będzie mogła zatrzymać jednego z nich dla siebie! Renia od razu wie, którego malca wybrać – decyduje się na ślicznego szczeniaka, którego nazwała Fred. Renia uwielbia zabawy z Fredem i nie może się doczekać pierwszych długich spacerów. Jednak podczas wycieczki do lasu ciekawska natura Freda bierze górę i piesek ucieka w poszukiwaniu przygód. Niest...

Oliwia bardzo się cieszy, kiedy rodzice zgadzają się na adopcję małego kotka. Dziewczynka nie może doczekać się, kiedy będzie mogła pokazać kotka swoim przyjaciołom i starszemu bratu. Jednak kiedy starszy brat zaprasza swoich kolegów rozrabiaków, Oliwia obawia się, że skrzywdzą i bardzo zmęczą kotka. Jej obawy okazują się słuszne, bo po wizycie chłopców, kot nagle znika i nigdzie nie można go znaleźć. Czy to możliwe, aby starszy brat Oliwki mógł mieć coś wspólnego ze zniknięc...

In „Black Wind Blowing”, Howard lays it on so thick I half suspected he was trying to do a spoof on the genre. But then, his normal storytelling was always full of bizarre images, hyperactive violence and heavy use of adjectives so this story is probably just an extreme example. It helps too, that „Black Wind Blowing” has enough wild premises to build at least two or three effective horror stories on. If you’re not moved by what’s going on at the moment, by the next page th...

Akcja tej powieści historycznej umiejscowiona jest u schyłku panowania Augusta III Sasa. Autorka skupia się na przedstawieniu sylwetki głównej bohaterki Franciszki Krasińskiej. Utwór ma formę listów i pamiętników. Na pierwszy plan wysuwa się emocjonalność i wewnętrzne przeżycia bohaterki, natomiast wydarzenia historyczne i polityczne są tylko tłem dla rozterek kobiecego serca.

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.

Despite an aversion to the detective formula, he wrote the tales in Graveyard Rats during the same years he chronicled the adventures of Conan. This collection features a new introduction by scholar Don Herron, editor of „The Dark Barbarian,” the definitive look at the life and work of Robert E. Howard.

The castles of the Twelfth Century, fortresses rather than mere dwellings, were built for defense, not comfort. The hall through which the drunken band was hallooing was broad, lofty, windy, strewn with rushes, now but faintly lighted by the dying embers in a great ill-ventilated fireplace. Rude, sail-like hangings along the walls rippled in the wind that found its way through.

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...