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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 a doomed race.

In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism... all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race.

Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, this collection gathers together all of Howard's published stories and poems featuring Bran Mak Morn-including the eerie masterpiece "Worms of the Earth" and "Kings of the Night," in which sorcery summons Kull the conqueror from out of the depths of time to stand with Bran against the Roman invaders.

Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments, reproductions of manuscripts bearing Howard's handwritten revisions, and much, much more.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - (2001) - essay by Gary Gianni
• Introduction - (2001) - essay by Rusty Burke
• Men of the Shadows - (1969) - novelette
• Kings of the Night - (1930) - novelette
• A Song of the Race - (1969) - poem
• Worms of the Earth - (1932) - novelette
• The Dark Man - (1931) - novelette
• The Lost Race - (1927) - short story
• The Drums of Pictdom - (1969) - poem
• Notes on Miscellanea - (2001) - essay by Rusty Burke
• The Little People - (1970) - short story
• The Little People--Typescript - (2001) - short story
• The Children of the Night - (1931) - short story
• Bran Mak Morn - (1983) - short fiction
• Bran Mak Morn--Manuscript - (2001) - short story
• Untitled Synopsis ("The story of a forgotten age...) - (1988) - short fiction
• Worms of the Earth--Draft - (2001) - short story
• Untitled fragment ("A grey sky arched over...") - (1969) - short story
• Untitled poem ("There's a bell that hang's...") - (2001) - poem
• The Wheel Turns - (2001) - short fiction
• Robert E. Howard and the Picts: A Chronology - (2001) - essay by uncredited
• Robert E. Howard, Bran Mak Morn and the Picts - (2001) - essay by Rusty Burke and Patrice Louinet
• Notes on the Original Howard Texts - (2001) - essay by uncredited