Conan’s Brethren - Robert E Howard

Robert E. Howard (1906-36) is best known for his stories about Conan the Barbarian. However, Howard was a prolific writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, Westerns, detective, sports stories, true confessions and other genre fiction. During his short career, he created a number of memorable characters in the pages of Weird Tales and other pulp magazines, including the the vengeful Puritan swashbuckler Solomon Kane, King Kull of Valusia, and the Pictish chieftain Bran Mak Morn. This companion volume to The Complete Chronicles of Conan contains stories featuring Conan's brothers-in-arms, from Howard's very first professionally published story, through the exploits of Kane, Kull, and the Picts, to a number of Oriental adventures, an early draft of a Conan story, and a posthumously published space opera in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Compiled and with a historical afterword by Stephen Jones, and lavishly illustrated by Les Edwards, this is a volume that no Robert E. Howard fan will want to miss. This Edition hardcover version of Conan's Brethren released by BCA in 2009, in arrangement with the publisher, Gollancz. It is rare and hard to find, I believe it was because this was mail order only. Unlike the Gollancz Edition this edition does not of Faux Leather cover, but has a dust jacket. This edition is also smaller in size the the Gollancz Faux Leather Edition, as pictured. Condition of the book is good other than some damage to the dust jacket as shown, from the back where a sticker with a different barcode was on the book, and also some scuff marks to the edges as pictured.