The immortal legacy of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Cimmerian, continues with this latest compendium of Howard’s fiction and poetry. He will always be best remembered for his sword and sorcery tales but his work was extraordinarily varied. Unlike most of his better known works such as Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, etc., these stories are all historically based adventure stories. These adventures, set in medieval-era Europe and the Near East, are among the most grippi...

Hoofs drummed down the street that sloped to the wharfs. The folk that yelled and scattered had only a fleeting glimpse of a mailed figure on a black stallion, a wide scarlet cloak flowing out on the wind. Far up the street came the shout and clatter of pursuit, but the horseman did not look back. He swept out onto the wharfs and jerked the plunging stallion back on its haunches at the very lip of the pier.

Breck Elkins is a hillbilly from Bear Creek, a fictional location in the Humboldt Mountains of Nevada. He is „mighty of stature and small of brain"–a physically huge and imposing figure, and his reputation as a short-tempered and ferocious fighter often precedes him throughout the Southwest. He is usually found in the company of Cap’n Kidd, his equally fierce and cantankerous horse.

One moment the glade lay empty; the next a man poised tensely at the edge of the bushes. No sound warned the red squirrels of his coming, but the birds that flitted about in the sunlight took sudden fright at the apparition and rose in a clamoring swarm. The man scowled and glanced quickly back the way he had come, fearing the bird-flight might have betrayed his presence. Then he started across the glade, placing his feet with caution. Tall and muscular of frame, he moved w...

Kirby O’Donnell is a Howard hero less familiar to most readers. Howard only wrote three stories about O’Donnell’s exploits, of which only two actually saw print during his lifetime -- „The Treasures of Tartary” and „Swords of Shahrazar” -- neither in Weird Tales.

Francis Xavier Gordon was a living legend in the Middle and Far East. The boars called him El Borac, „Swift,” the title earned by his awkward abilities with a gun, a knife and a sword. Now, the mighty El Borak must stretch its forces to prevent the Turkish uprising, protect the hermits from murders and stop the dangerous amir without allowing him to seize control over India.

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...

Apokryficzna opowieść z uniwersum PÓL DAWNO ZAPOMNIANYCH BITEW To uniwersum, w którym kilka lat później osadzona została akcja noweli Pola dawno zapomnianych bitew. W Toy Landzie znajdziecie wiele elementów, które pojawiają się obecnie w powieściach z tego cyklu: Łatwo być Bogiem oraz Ucieczce z raju. Nie jest to jednak pełnokrwisty prequel, tylko opowieść z tego samego wszechświata, w którym niemal dwa wieki później działają Nike i Henryan. Jak słusznie głosi napis na o...

The Iron Man has fought since time immemorial -- with but one thought in mind -- to get to his foe and crush him. The centuries, the costumes, the weapons are different. The object is the same. The gore and savagery of Howard’s tales of the ring is little removed from those exploits of Conan and Kull and Bran Mak Morn.It is common knowledge that Robert E. Howard was a boxing enthusiast, and his fellow author H. P. Lovecraft tied Howard’s interest in sports directly to his „...

Torches flared murkily on the revels in the Maul, where the thieves of the east held carnival by night. In the Maul they could carouse and roar as they liked, for honest people shunned the quarters, and watchmen, well paid with stained coins, did not interfere with their sport. Along the crooked, unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring. Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on wolf, and from the darkness ...

The Sowers of the Thunder is a short story by Robert E. Howard (published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932) that takes place in Outremer (the Crusader states) in the time of General Baibars and deals with the General’s friendly/adversarial relationship with Cahal Ruadh O’Donnell, an Irish Crusader with a troubled past cut in the Howardian mold. Both the Siege of Jerusalem (1244) and the Battle of La Forbie feature in the plot.

So thay brought the envoys, pallid from months of imprisonment, before the canopied throne of Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan of Turkey, and the mightiest monarch in an age of mighty monarchs. Under the great purple dome of the royal chamber gleamed the throne before which the world trembled– gold-paneled, pearl-inlaid. An emperor’s wealth in gems was sewn into the silken canopy from which depended a shimmering string of pearls ending a frieze of emeralds which hung like a...

The roar of battle had died away; the shout of victory mingled with the cries of the dying. Like gay-hued leaves after an autumn storm, the fallen littered the plain; the sinking sun shimmered on burnished helmets, gilt-worked mail, silver breastplates, broken swords and the heavy regal folds of silken standards, overthrown in pools of curdling crimson. In silent heaps lay war- horses and their steel-clad riders, flowing manes and blowing plumes stained alike in the red tid...

The tall Englishman, Pembroke, was scratching lines on the earth with his hunting knife, talking in a jerky tone that indicated suppressed excitement: „I tell you, Ormond, that peak to the west is the one we were to look for. Here, I’ve marked a map in the dirt. This mark here represents our camp, and this one is the peak. We’ve marched north far enough.

The king of vendhya was dying. Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold- domed chamber where Bhunda Chand struggled on the velvet-cushioned dais. Beads of sweat glistened on his dark skin; his fingers twisted the gold-worked fabric beneath him. He was young; no spear had touched him, no poison lurked in his wine.

Ta historia rozpoczyna się tam, gdzie inne się kończą: na płonącym stosie.W czasach, gdy bogowie byli jeszcze młodzi, do Asgardu z krańca świata przywędrowała wiedźma. Za odmowę nauczenia Odyna magii proroczej spotkała ją okrutna kara. Trzykrotnie spalona, tyle samo razy odrodziła się z popiołów.Udało jej się uciec i przybrała imię Angerboda. Znalazła schronienie w najodleglejszych lasach na krańcach światów, gdzie leczyła czarami. Obdarzyła uczuciem mężczyznę o pokiereszowan...

Czy darwinowska teoria ewolucji jest rzeczywiście największym osiągnięciem w historii nauki – a może nawet najbardziej twórczą i ekspansywną ideą, jaka kiedykolwiek pojawiła się w umyśle człowieka, jak to powiedział Daniel Dennett? „Tajemnica mechanizmów ewolucji” w sposób zrozumiały przedstawia krytyczne studium literatury z zakresu biologii ewolucyjnej od Darwina poprzez Dobzhansky’ego do Dawkinsa. Autor pokazuje, że popularne ujęcie ewolucji jest jedną wielką opowieścią o ...

Rozważania Roberta Rynkowskiego przenika pulsująca autentycznym, a przy tym subtelnym dramatyzmem spolaryzowana narracja o pragnieniu człowieka szukającego Boga i o "ukrywającym się" Bogu poszukującym człowieka. Albert Gorzkowski Ta książka to zarówno krótkie wprowadzenie do dogmatyki, jak i przewodnik życia duchowego. Teologia rozumiana jako bosko-ludzki dialog oraz egzystencjalny charakter prawd wiary to dwa przekonania, które przenikają Zrozumieć wiarę i sprawiają, że sta...

Publikacja zawiera analizę poszczególnych przepisów ustawy z 19.03.2004 r. ‒ Prawo celne z odwołaniem do aktualnego orzecznictwa oraz odniesieniem do regulacji prawa celnego Unii Europejskiej. Uwzględnia najistotniejsze zmiany wynikające z wejścia w życie Unijnego Kodeksu Celnego oraz zmiany uchwalone w 2021 r. istotnie modyfikujące rozstrzyganie w sprawach celnych, a także przyjętą w 2022 r. nowelizację wynikającą ze zmian w ustawie o Krajowej Administracji Skarbowej (K...

 C.S. Lewis (1898–1963), wybitny naukowiec, wpływowy apologeta chrześcijański i bestselerowy autor literatury dziecięcej, jest postacią enigmatyczną i kontrowersyjną, która fascynuje nawet pięćdziesiąt lat po jego śmierci. Niniejsze opracowanie jest pierwszym tak kompleksowym jednotomowym studium napisanym przez zespół międzynarodowych naukowców w celu zbadania kariery Lewisa jako historyka literatury, popularnego teologa i twórczego pisarza. Dwadzieścia jeden eksperckic...

Cardigan Novels is a conditional cycle that combines historical novels by Robert Chambers that tell about the period of the American Revolutionary War. The novels do not have a connected plot, but the same fictional and historical characters appear in the course of each: Sir William Johnson, Walter Butler, Jack Mount, etc.

Lorraine is a story about a young woman and her country. Lorraine comes of age during the dramatic war years in France. Its growth, conflicts and possible renewal are reflected in the country’s struggle for its independence against Germany.

Robert W. Chambers is known for his science fiction, thrillers. He wrote a classic romance novel. When Mrs. Greensleeve first saw her child, she knew that he was different from other children.

This is the story of what happened to a dozen malcontents who could no longer tolerate dirty business in Europe and politicians at home. This is an exciting story that will keep you in suspense until the end of the story.