Three years earlier, Jorian had been crowned King of Xylar. But the laws of Xylar decreed that each randomly chosen monarch must be beheaded at the end of a five-year reign. Jorian had a prejudice against losing his head. With the aid of the aged...
Discovering the countess Yvette hiding behind a bush without any clothes on, Sergeant Thorolf is soon enlisted to take her to Rhaetia, a wizard, in order that he might change her form and help her elude her...
Wizardly schemes, Jorian knew, went oft a-gley. But this time the wizard's plan seemed simple. Since ancient prophecy foretold that the clocks would save Iraz, Jorian must repair the great tower clocks that his father had built. If everything went...
To please his would-be father-in-law, Eudoric must obtain two square yards of dragon hide! Only then can he claim his knightly spurs and the hand of the beautiful Lusina. But Eudoric quickly discovers that battles with dragons go much better in...
King Jorian was rather attached to his head. Hence, he felt his promise to steal the Kist of Avlen, a treasure trove of ancient manuscripts containing magical lore, was a small enough price to pay for a chance to escape his own beheading. But when...
The greatest hero of Hyborian times was not a Hyborian but a barbarian, Conan the Cimmerian, about whose name whole cycles of legend revolve.
From the elder civilizations of Hyborian and Atlantean times, only a few fragmentary, half-legendary...
Continuing his northward trek, now speeded by his possession of a horse, Conan at last reaches the semi-civilized kingdom of Kush. This is the land to which the name 'Kush' properly applies, although Conan, like other northerners, tends to use the...
As chieftain of this mongrel Red Brotherhood, Conan is more than ever a thorn in King Yildiz’s sensitive flesh. That henpecked monarch, instead of strangling his brother Teyaspa in the approved Turanian manner, has been prevailed upon to keep him...
Haunted by Atali's icy beauty and bored with the simple life of the Cimmerian villages, Conan rides south toward the civilized realms, hoping to find a ready market for his sword as a condottiere in the service of various Hyborian princelings. At...