Here is the most thrilling collection of heroic fantasy ever, by the master who created Conan, Cormac, and Bran Mak Morn. Sword and sorcery, horror, weird tales... some never before published, many never in paperback. Here are Howard's most magnificent heroes, his boldest civilizations in... Black Canaan, Two Against Tyre, Guns of Khartoum, The Footfalls Within - featuring Solomon Kane, The Sword Woman, The Hand of the Black Goddess.

Plus many, many more!

Contents:

• Introduction by Glenn Lord
• Letter - Robert E. Howard to Wilfred B. Talman, circa September 1931
• Sword Woman
• Which Will Scarcely Be Understood (poem)
• The Striking of the Gong
• The Song of Horsa's Galley (poem)
• The Good Knight
• A Word from the Outer Dark (poem)
• Black Canaan
• The Song of a Mad Minstrel (poem)
• Kelly the Conjure Man
• Surrender (poem)
• The Footfalls Within
• Knife-River Prodigal
• Musings (poem)
• Life (poem)
• The House of Suspicion
• Reuben's Brethren (poem)
• Two Against Tyre
• The Guise of Youth (poem)
• "For the Love of Barbara Allen"
• Guns of Khartum
• Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die (poem)