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His life imperiled by the mistrust of a mad King, a haunted by the armies of every nation of the Hyborian Age, the mighty Cimmerian, Conan, in the small band of loyal followers flee to the grim Hayek's of the unmapped Ilbars Mountains, in search of a stronghold that they can make their own. Instead they find the midnight evil of the legendary Magus of the sons of Yezm and his assassin followers... And an even blacker horror spawned by the very hills themselves...

Rewritten edition of the 1955 novella of the same name.

CONAN in all his glory!

Amid the treachery of pirates, the intrigue of a doomed count, the fury of savage Picts, the flashing eyes and flowing hair of beautiful women, fierce swordplay and the deadly vengeance of a black magician, the greatest her Hyboria has ever known picks his way like a clever and deadly hunting cat. For Conan knows what he wants - and what he must do to get The Treasure of Tranicos.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - L. Sprague de Camp
• The Treasure of Tranicos - Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
• The Trail of Tranicos - an essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• Skald in the Post Oaks - an essay by L. Sprague de Camp

Tales of Conan is a 1955 collection of four fantasy short stories by American writers Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The tales as originally written by Howard were adventure yarns mostly set in the Middle Ages; they were rewritten as Conan stories by de Camp, who also added the fantastic element.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: There'll Always Be a Conan - essay by P. Schuyler Miller
• Ghostly Note - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Blood-Stained God - short story
• Hawks Over Shem - (1955) - novelette
• The Road of the Eagles - (1955) - novelette
• The Flame Knife - novella

Nominated in 2014 for the 1939 Retro Hugo Award.

"Pigeons from Hell" is a short story by Robert E. Howard written in late 1934 and published posthumously in 1938. The story title derives from an image present in many of Howard's grandmother's ghost stories, that of an old deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons.

The story originally appeared in Weird Tales, May 1938. It has been reprinted many times and can be found in the anthologies:

• The Horror Hall of Fame (1991), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg
• Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2011), edited by Otto Penzler
• The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950 (2012), edited by John Pelan

The story is included in the collections:

• The Book of Robert E. Howard (1976)
• Pigeons from Hell (1976)
• Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors (1987)
• The Black Stranger And Other American Tales (2005)
• The Haunter of the Rings & Other Tales (2007)
• The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: Grim Lands (2007)
• The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard (2008)

Conan the Cimmerian--the boy-thief who became a mercenary, who fought and loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian age.

Collected here in the chronological order they were first published are Robert E. Howard's definitive stories of Conan, exactly as he wrote them. A foreword and afterword by Stephen Jones provide a biography of Howard along with a comprehensive overview of his writing and background on the world of pulp fiction.

World Fantasy Award-nominee Les Edwards contributes a black and white frontispiece, along with a gold embossed work on the leather-style cover, while Hugo Award- and Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and author Stephen Jones provides an insightful afterword.