The desert shimmered in the heat waves. Conan the Cimmerian stared out over the aching desolation and involuntarily drew the back of his powerful hand over his blackened lips. He stood like a bronze image in the sand, apparently impervious to the murderous sun, though his only garment was a silk loin-cloth, girdled by a wide gold-buckled belt from which hung a saber and a broad-bladed poniard. On his clean-cut limbs were evidences of scarcely healed wounds.

The silence of the pine woods lay like a brooding cloak about the soul of Bristol McGrath. The black shadows seemed fixed, immovable as the weight of superstition that overhung this forgotten back-country. Vague ancestral dreads stirred at the back of McGrath’s mind; for he was born in the pine woods, and sixteen years of roaming about the world had not erased their shadows.

...Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, two sailors find traces of a lost civilization – and memories of their own impossible part in it! ...The „last words” of an operatic tenor bring the music of hell to the man who destroyed him....Turlogh O’Brien, mighty Gaelic warrior who serves no master but gold and blood, battles for a kingdom against the fearful ancient gods of Bal-Sagoth. All together for the first time in The Gods of Bal-Sagoth.

The fisherman loosened his knife in its scabbard. The gesture was instinctive, for what he feared was nothing a knife could slay, not even the saw-edged crescent blade of the Yuetshi that could disembowel a man with an upward stroke. Neither man nor beast threatened him in the solitude which brooded over the castellated isle of Xapur.

This collection contains all of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author. His Conan stories feature a young barbarian warrior who carves himself a kingdom and rules with a degree of wisdom and justice. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legenda...

Once it was called Eski-Hissar, the Old Castle, for it was very ancient even when the first Seljuks swept out of the east, and not even the Arabs, who rebuilt that crumbling pile in the days of Abu Bekr, knew what hands reared those massive bastions among the frowning foothills of the Taurus. Now, since the old keep had become a bandit’s hold, men called it Bab-el-Shaitan, the Gate of the Devil, and with good reason.

„W swojej prozie kwestionuję nawet wszechświat; zastanawiam się na głos, czy jest rzeczywisty, zastanawiam się też na głos, czy my wszyscy jesteśmy prawdziwi”. Philip K. Dick „Philip K. Dick był filozofem, który odmienił fantastykę naukową. Ktoś taki był science fiction niezbędny, ktoś świeży, spoza kręgu pewnych świata umysłów ścisłych. Ktoś, kto chciał wątpić, mąciciel. Rewolucjonista, bo tylko tacy są w stanie popchnąć świat – a tym wypadku literaturę – do przodu. Łamią...

One of Robert E. Howard’s lesser known fictional characters, Kirby O’Donnell is an American treasure hunter in early-twentieth century Afghanistan disguised as a Kurdish merchant, „Ali el Ghazi”. „Ali el Ghazi” is a master of edged weapons, fiercely intelligent, tigerishly quick, and a merciless killer when threatened. Kirby O’Donnell is similar to another of Howard’s characters, El Borak, in many ways. However, O’Donnell seeks hidden treasures in all of his stories („Sword...

Jack, łowca nagród, dostaje kolejne zlecenie. Ma schwytać rudowłosą piękność, MJ O’Leary, oskarżoną o zastrzelenie kochanka. Okazuje się, że na kobietę poluje jeszcze ktoś inny, i to o wiele groźniejszy. Jack i MJ zostają niespodziewanie sprzymierzeńcami. Dziewczyna wie, dlaczego ścigają ją płatni mordercy, ale milczy. Milczy nawet wtedy, gdy Jack znajduje w jej rzeczach olbrzymi, niebieski diament …

This is a good book of four Western stories. The title story, however, is the longest. „The Vultures of Whapeton” suffers from a protagonist who is just a bit too manly and effective to be believed. Everyone who meets Steve Corcoran seems to instantly know he’ll just prevail in any kind of gunfight, no matter how outnumbered he is -- and then, of course, Corcoran goes on to do use that.

An Irish-American warrior passes himself of as a Kurd and sets out to steal the treasure of Tartary. This is one of Robert E, Howard’s fast-paced short stories, featuring lots of fights and sliced entrails. Not one of his best works, in my opinion, as it somehow lacks substance. It seemed all hell and no notion.

The blare of the trumpets grew louder, like a deep golden tide surge, like the soft booming of the evening tides against the silver beaches of Valusia. The throng shouted, women flung roses from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of silver hosts came clearer and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad, white street that curved round the golden-spired Tower of Splendor.

Znany muzyk Spence Kimball przechodzi kryzys twórczy. Przenosi się z Nowego Jorku do prowincjonalnego miasteczka, gdzie zaczyna uczyć w szkole muzycznej. Poznaje piękną właścicielkę sklepu z zabawkami, Nataszę. Z czasem się w niej zakochuje, jednak ona po nieudanym romansie z rosyjskim tancerzem broni się przed kolejnym związkiem z artystą...

Mieszkający na Manhattanie były marynarz, Zack Muldoon, pilnie potrzebuje doświadczonego i sprytnego adwokata. Uważa, że piękna Rachel Stanislaski, obrońca z urzędu, nie da rady poprowadzić sprawy jego nastoletniego brata, który wpadł w poważne tarapaty. Po bliższym poznaniu pani adwokat Zack odkrywa, że jest ona nie tylko wyśmienitą prawniczką, ale też fascynującą kobietą...

Over her head hung the menace of murder – and; of the man who changed his name...Best remembered for penning the screenplay for the classic film „King Kong”, author Edgar Wallace was an astoundingly popular luminary in the action-adventure genre in the early twentieth century. „The Man Who Changed His Name” is a Robert Curtis’s adaptation of a screenplay by Edgar Wallace. This story packed with intrigue, mystery, murders, and it highlights Wallace’s unmatched skill in setti...

Policyjny detektyw, Aleksij Stanislaski, zaaresztował zachowującą się bezwstydnie młodą kobietę. Popełnił fatalną pomyłkę; wziął za prostytutkę znaną scenarzystkę, Bess McKnee. Jednak Bess nie ma do niego pretensji, jest wręcz zadowolona z rozwoju sytuacji. Liczy na to, że przystojny detektyw pomoże jej w zbieraniu materiałów do kolejnego filmu.

Listy, pisane w latach 1994-2001, rysują barwny i fascynujący obraz kraju zagubionego w samym centrum czarnego kontynentu, Republiki Środkowoafrykańskiej, gdzie od 1985 roku pracują polscy misjonarze z Zakonu Braci Mniejszych Kapucynów. Listy z Serca Afryki, po raz pierwszy wydane w 2002 roku, to pisarski debiut brata Roberta Wieczorka. W 2006 roku ukazała się jego druga książka Pęknięte Serce Afryki - poruszający reportaż z czasów rebelii, któtra przetoczyła się przez RCA w ...

The stories are humorously written as if told by Breckinridge Elkins, a hillbilly with no schooling. He and his kin live in the Humboldts in Nevada. Elkins is six feet six inches tall, is as strong as a grizzly bear. He can be just as bad tempered if riled. And there is a lot to rile him, especially his relatives.

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published. ’Hawk of the Hills’ is a story in the El Borak series where El Borak leads a tribe to war in Afganistan. I recommend this book

Five incredible stories of the wild west, from the supremely creative mind of Robert E. Howard: „"Golden Hope” Christmas”, „Riders of the Sunset”, „Boot-Hill Payoff”, „Vultures’ Sanctuary”, „The Vultures of Wahpeton”. The serious, hardcore western stories in this collection fit the writing style of Howard like a glove. Like his horror stories, historical fiction, straight adventure like El Borak does. The stories collected here show a West stripped down to essentials, where...

Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard is a collection of Cthulhu Mythos short stories by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in the US in 2001 by Chaosium Press. All of these stories had been published previously, between 1929 and 1985, in Weird Tales, From Beyond the Dark Gateway, Strange Tales, Weirdbook, Fantasy Crosswinds, Coven, Fantasy Book, Dark Things, and The Fantasy Magazine. The collection includes an introduction by Robert M. Price ...

From Robert E. Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard’s characters, none embodied his creator’s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn. The last king of the Picts, Bran Mak Morn exists in a brutal, savage world set in the same universe as H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Unlike most of his race, Morn eschewed violence and actively sought peace among the other ...

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.

BILL W. to postać legendarna i tajemnicza. Setki tysięcy ludzi na świecie deklaruje przyjaźń z tym człowiekiem na koszulkach, breloczkach, znaczkach i pocztówkach. Choć nigdy nie widzieli go na oczy i nie znają jego nazwiska, czują z nim więź i wdzięczność za Program Dwunastu Kroków Anonimowych Alkoholików, który przywrócił im duchowe zdrowie. BILL W. to postać legendarna i tajemnicza. Setki tysięcy ludzi na świecie deklaruje przyjaźń z tym człowiekiem na koszulkach, breloc...