Robert E Howard Books in Order

Howard's first published story drops readers into a prehistoric rescue tale of brute force and immediate danger. It is simple, raw, and already unmistakably his.

A hunter tracks a wolf-like terror through dark woods and ruined country. The tale is early Howard, but the atmosphere and speed are already there.

A modern man confronts a vast occult conspiracy led by the eerie figure called Skull-Face. Howard blends thriller pace with secret cults, apocalyptic plans, and a heavy weird atmosphere.

Bran Mak Morn faces Rome with all the desperation of a man fighting history itself. Howard layers war, memory, and even Kull's return into a tale that feels bigger than its length.

This weird collection favors corpses that do not stay quiet, old sins, and doom arriving in human shape. Howard knows how to make even brief stories feel dangerous.

This boxing collection shows Howard's other great engine besides fantasy, men under pressure in the ring. The fights are rough, fast, and full of stubborn pride.

An exotic tower, a dangerous woman, and the threat of torture give this El Borak tale its drive. Howard keeps the action lean while letting the setting feel hot, strange, and tense.

A ring tale with the docks close by, this book captures Howard's love of boxing as hard work, hard luck, and hard-headed pride. The bruises matter, but so does the swagger.

Treasure, conspiracy, and old eastern courts collide in this brisk historical adventure. Howard keeps the stakes personal even when the backdrop feels grand.

Castaways reach a lost island where beauty, ritual, and blood sacrifice sit side by side. Howard turns the setting into a dreamlike trap with violence always ready to break through.

Already king, Conan uncovers a conspiracy against his throne while an older, darker power stirs in the shadows. This is the tale that first introduced Conan to readers.

A princess, an army, and a resurrected wizard pull Conan into command on the eve of invasion. It is military fantasy with fast pacing and just enough dread behind the banners.

This weird tale grips from the first hint of lurking danger and refuses to loosen up. Howard builds it on dark atmosphere, pursuit, and the sense that something inhuman is closing in.

Set in the Crusades, this story turns siege, fanaticism, and personal courage into something swift and brutal. Howard makes the heat and pressure feel immediate.

King Conan is captured after a disastrous battle and thrown into a dungeon of sorcery. Escape means surviving monsters below ground and reclaiming his kingdom above it.

El Borak is pulled into another web of treasure, betrayal, and desert-country violence. Howard gives the adventure bite by keeping every alliance temporary.

A hardboiled mystery with pulp speed, this story follows a killer's trail through corruption and looming threat. Howard proves he could handle crime fiction without losing his punch.

Conan takes a crooked job in a city full of corrupt men and secret agendas. Then Thak, the man-killing ape, turns an intrigue story into sheer panic.

Shipwrecked on an island of black ruins, Conan and Olivia face statues that may not be statues at all. Howard keeps the setup simple and milks it for eerie, moonlit dread.

El Borak races through the Afghan hills to rescue a woman seized by a ruthless bandit chief. The result is one of Howard's best straight adventure tales, fast, tense, and beautifully ruthless.

A classic Howard setup, hidden chambers, old treasure, and danger waiting for the unwary. The story moves fast and treats curiosity as its own kind of trap.

Conan serves on a raw frontier where settlers, scouts, and Picts fight for every mile of ground. It is one of Howard's bleakest Conan stories, more survival tale than treasure hunt.

When a strange idol and a drug called the blood of the gods begin drawing men in, El Borak has to cut through fanaticism and greed. Howard mixes adventure pace with a memorable sinister hook.

Francis Xavier Gordon takes on raiders, mountain feuds, and impossible terrain in another El Borak showdown. The geography matters here almost as much as the gunplay.

Hungry streets, hidden cults, and a city that eats travelers alive make this one of Conan's nastier adventures. Conan starts by dodging danger and ends by cutting through the whole rotten system.

A hard-driving adventure of frontier danger, shifting loyalties, and men tested by open country. Howard gives the title all the force it promises.

Conan's kingdom falls to a revived sorcerer, and the king must escape, regroup, and strike back. It is Howard's only full-length Conan novel, broad in scope but still fiercely fast.

Breckinridge Elkins tells his own story in a linked run of comic western episodes set in Nevada's Humboldts. The narrator is huge, quick to fight, and almost never fully aware of the chaos he creates.

Breckinridge Elkins brings frontier comedy at full volume, with feuds, romance, and smashed-up peacekeeping. The extra tales show how well Howard handled Western farce.

An empty plantation house, a family curse, and a night full of fear make this Howard's best-known horror story. It is Southern Gothic with real bite.

Set in the Crusades, this story drops readers into siege lines, shifting loyalties, and brutal hand-to-hand war. Howard makes the battlefield feel crowded, hot, and personal.

Howard's novel of Conan the king, betrayed and driven into exile, then forced to win back both throne and world. Sorcery, armies, and endurance all matter here.

Two titles, one novel: Conan loses his crown, survives the wilderness, and fights back against dark magic and treachery. Howard makes the fall and return feel hard-earned.

A strong middle-phase Conan collection, this volume emphasizes wandering action and hard-won survival. Howard gives Conan strange ruins, ambushes, and enemies who never stay simple for long.

These stories catch Conan near the top of his career, when power only gives him bigger enemies. Court threats, old grudges, and supernatural dangers crowd close to the throne.

This edition collects classic Conan material in a straightforward, readable volume. It is a solid one-book taste of Howard's brutal world, where wit matters almost as much as muscle.

This collection gathers varied Conan episodes from across different points in his life. Treasure hunts, lost cities, and hard reversals keep the mood restless and adventurous.

A poetry collection of melancholy, violence, sea-dreams, and old ruins, this shows Howard in a quieter register. The same obsession with fate and lost worlds is still there.

This continuation takes Conan into a later-life struggle packed with war, pursuit, and dynastic stakes. It is built for readers who want the Cimmerian in big, kingdom-sized trouble.

This selection gathers some of Howard's strongest weird and historical tales, with the title story at the center. The mood shifts, but the sense of old danger never really leaves.

A hot-headed man is hurled to another planet and dropped into a savage world of tribes, monsters, and war. Howard treats it like sword and sorcery tilted toward pulp science fantasy.

This collection follows Conan through roaming, raiding, and mercenary work across the Hyborian world. He wins as much by nerve and quick judgment as by sheer strength.

Breckinridge Elkins returns for more cheerful devastation in the Nevada hills. Family honor, bad temper, and complete confusion keep turning small problems into frontier stampedes.

Howard's only Conan novel finds the king of Aquilonia fighting a resurrected wizard and a collapsing realm. It is bigger in scale than the stories, but still moves with brute force.

Kings and priests try to box Conan in, but he is at his best when the odds turn ugly. The stories here bring together court plots, dark temples, and the steady pull of the crown.

This volume centers on Conan at full strength, smashing through war, sorcery, and treachery. It is a good showcase for Howard's larger-scale Conan tales and his love of battlefield momentum.

Kull rules Valusia, but kingship never makes him comfortable. These stories pit him against conspiracies, inhuman enemies, and the strange loneliness of power.

This opening Lancer-style volume mixes Howard material with later completions to sketch Conan's earliest years. Young, hungry, and reckless, he is already dangerous in every room he enters.

This later Conan novel pushes the Cimmerian into royal intrigue, vengeance, and large-scale conflict. It reads like a continuation of the long arc from wandering swordsman to world-shaking figure.

Conan is on the move as thief, scout, and hired sword, crossing kingdoms that are rarely more civilized than he is. The book favors pace, sudden ambushes, and rough turns of fortune.

This first Solomon Kane collection introduces the dour Puritan as he chases evil from Europe into Africa. Howard wastes little time getting Kane into blood, judgment, and shadow.

Solomon Kane follows a kidnapped woman deep into Africa and toward the nightmare city of Negari. The hunt becomes a long descent into cruelty, decay, and old terror.

A werewolf tale from Howard's early Weird Tales period, this story leans into curses, pursuit, and primal violence. You can already feel his taste for speed and dark atmosphere.

These stories follow the last great Pictish king as Rome presses in on ancient Britain. Howard gives Bran a darker, sadder world than Conan, full of resistance, memory, and grim bargains.

This paperback gathers early Conan adventures, following the young Cimmerian through theft, wilderness travel, and haunted ruins. It's a snapshot of Conan before the throne, hard, clever, and always in motion.

This volume continues Solomon Kane's fight against murder, sorcery, and evil hidden behind ordinary roads and ruins. Even the fragments add to the sense of a man who can never stop moving.

Another Solomon Kane collection, this one emphasizing the breadth of his wanderings and the darkness he keeps meeting. Swordplay, haunted landscapes, and stern moral fury all come together here.

Howard's poems range from battle songs and lamentations to frontier memories and sea-dreams. Read together, they show how much of his fiction began in rhythm and image.

Howard turns medieval war into a rush of steel, dust, and desperate courage. The title story is one of his best historical pieces, sharp, violent, and unsentimental.

This western novel throws range war trouble, drifting loyalties, and frontier justice into one fast-moving package. Howard keeps the plot tight and the violence close at hand.

Cormac Mac Art roams a harsher, earlier world of sea raids, tribal loyalties, and grim survival. These stories mix Howard's love of history with a strong streak of mythic adventure.

El Borak rides into a hidden valley where geopolitics, tribal conflict, and buried ambition collide. Howard grounds the story in frontier adventure, then keeps tightening the trap.

Conan kidnaps a Vendhyan princess and stumbles into a war with the Black Seers of Yimsha. What starts as bandit business turns into one of Howard's darkest, most magical Conan adventures.

Cormac Mac Art sails a violent world of raiders, exiles, and sea-born feuds. Howard's historical adventure feels almost like fantasy here, only with fewer spells and more saltwater.

A sorcerous usurper replaces Queen Taramis and turns Khauran into a nightmare. Crucified in the desert, Conan survives long enough to lead a brutal reckoning.

Conan and the swordswoman Valeria flee into the lost city of Xuchotl, where two decaying factions have been killing each other for generations. Escape means surviving a maze of feuds, traps, and old madness.

Young Conan breaks into a legendary tower to steal a priceless gem. Instead he finds a dying alien captive, strange sorcery, and a burglary that turns unexpectedly tragic.

To avenge a Roman outrage, Bran Mak Morn seeks help from things older and fouler than empire. The cost of victory is what makes this story bite.

These pirate adventures follow an Irish outlaw carrying a grudge into Caribbean waters. Howard writes the sea as a perfect place for revenge, mutiny, and sudden violence.

Drawn to a haunted island fortress, Conan finds a kidnapped woman and an ancient evil waking from the past. It's a lean adventure of pirates, ruins, and a demon that refuses to stay buried.

This poetry collection leans into dreamscapes, ruins, battle ghosts, and restless memory. It is slim, moody, and full of the same dark energy that drives Howard's fiction.

This volume gathers Howard's most famous horror tale alongside other eerie adventures. Expect haunted houses, old family secrets, and menace that feels close and physical.

A thief, a priest, and a politician all try to use Conan for their own ends. Then the ape-man Thak gets loose, and the whole crooked scheme turns savage.

These adventure tales head east, where spies, bandits, warlords, and treasure-seekers cross paths. Howard uses the setting for speed, color, and sudden reversals rather than slow historical pageantry.

A wide-ranging posthumous collection, this volume samples Howard's fantasy, horror, adventure, and poetry. It is best read as a tour through the many sides of his imagination.

Dennis Dorgan is Howard in comic boxing mode, one fight, one misunderstanding, and one port-city mess after another. The stories are quick, noisy, and built for pure fun.

A follow-up sampler that broadens the picture of Howard beyond Conan. Fantasy, frontier action, horror, and unfinished curios all get some room here.

Howard's poems range from historical ballads to bleak reflections and sea-haunted lyrics. The collection gives his darker, more musical side room to breathe.

Set in the far north, these stories bring together exile, raiding, and blood loyalty in a colder world. Howard's action stays fast, but the setting gives it a harsher edge.

Howard's fierce women take center stage in tales of rebellion, vengeance, and refusing the part society writes for them. The title story remains one of his best what-if heroic fantasies.

This volume returns to Howard's occult-adventure territory, where secret masterminds and strange cults press against the modern world. Expect pulp plotting, sinister atmosphere, and a big sense of menace.

El Borak hunts through high-country danger and old mysteries toward a relic with a deadly reputation. Howard folds a weird edge into straight adventure without slowing the pace.

A Southern Gothic tale of obsession, fear, and folk magic in the piney woods. Howard trades swords for regional horror and does not lose any of the tension.

Set in the age of the Crusades, these stories follow Cormac Fitzgeoffrey through sieges, betrayals, and brutal close combat. Howard writes the medieval world as rough, crowded, and never safe.

A dying modern narrator remembers a lost age where northern warriors reach an ancient city on the Gulf Coast. Howard blends reincarnation, myth, and the fall of a civilization.

Fleeing the law, Conan joins the pirate queen Bêlit and finds both love and danger on the Black Coast. Their raids lead them toward a jungle river and a buried horror older than either of them.

A lone traveler crosses a haunted moor and tests whether the local horror is only superstition. Howard gets a lot of menace out of one road, one night, and one stubborn man.

History, memory, and the supernatural blur in these tales of ancient grudges and old identities returning. Howard turns the past into something that can still reach out and seize the present.

This western collection leans into doomed pursuits, hard choices, and rough country. Howard's frontier work is leaner than his fantasy, but it has the same love of speed and sudden violence.

A princess hires Conan as a mercenary captain when an ancient wizard rises to conquer the land. Howard turns battlefield strategy, dark magic, and sheer nerve into one of Conan's grandest campaigns.

Richard Corben's graphic adaptation of The Valley of the Worm turns Howard's prehistoric fantasy into stark, muscular visual storytelling. The bones of the tale remain pure Howard.

Conan enters a crumbling shrine in search of the fabled Teeth of Gwahlur. Priests, thieves, and false miracles close in as greed turns a treasure hunt into a deadly trap.

More Breckinridge Elkins means more family feuds, smashed furniture, and frontier misunderstandings solved with fists. These stories are broader and looser than Conan, but just as energetic.

This omnibus-sized collection gathers weird tales of reincarnation, curses, monsters, and doom. It is a good cross-section of Howard when he leans hardest into horror.

Solomon Kane rides into Africa after slavers and finds a city of death waiting beyond the hills. It is one of Howard's strongest Kane stories, mixing pursuit, vengeance, and lost-world horror.

A companion volume for Howard devotees, gathering essays, bibliography, letters, and hard-to-find material that map the growth of his fandom and scholarship.

Pirates, hidden gold, and crossed motives drive this rugged Conan adventure. It has the feel of sea air, ambush, and men who would rather risk death than leave treasure alone.

This fantasy and horror collection gathers some of Howard's darker tales of doom, memory, and old evil. Even when the settings shift, the mood stays restless and uncanny.

A Howard adventure later reworked into Conan territory, this story thrives on pursuit, strange ruins, and a relic that men are willing to kill for. It feels half treasure hunt, half death march.

These Breckinridge Elkins stories turn frontier feuds into comic disasters. Howard lets his giant mountain brawler punch, blunder, and bulldoze his way through the Humboldts with great good cheer.

These spicy adventure stories follow reckless men and dangerous women through gun-running, betrayal, and trouble in hot places. Howard writes them with pulp shamelessness and a lot of forward drive.

A quirky little Howard item built around his cat essay and playful dark humor. It is slight, odd, and fun, especially for readers curious about the stranger corners of his posthumous collections.

These adventure tales follow a quick-witted narrator through danger, disguise, and colonial-era intrigue. Howard has fun with reversals, pursuit, and stories told with a grin.

As captain of a pirate crew, Conan lands on an eerie island where captives vanish into a black pool. The rescue becomes a fight against a place that changes people in monstrous ways.

This collection leans into Howard's historical adventure work, with outlaws, crusaders, swordsmen, and hard men on dangerous roads. The pace is fast, but the settings do a lot of the heavy lifting.

Howard's weird fiction meets cosmic horror in tales of forbidden books, ancient cults, and things better left unremembered. It shows how naturally he fit beside Lovecraft without sounding like a copy.

Howard's semi-autobiographical novel turns the young writer's Texas years into fiction. It is part coming-of-age story, part portrait of ambition, friendship, boxing, and frustration.

These early letters show Howard becoming a professional writer in real time. You see the friendships, ambitions, arguments, and daily work behind the stories.

This poetry volume gathers reflective and fantastical pieces touched by longing, loss, and old landscapes. It is a quieter Howard book, but the imagery still hits hard.

A small, unusual Howard volume centered on sea-haunted verse and dark romantic moods. It shows the poetic side of the writer behind all the swords, gunfire, and monsters.

This collection follows Howard's black-clad Puritan across Europe and Africa as he hunts murderers, witches, and older evils. The mood is part swashbuckler, part horror story, and always grim.

This collection reaches across Howard's adventure fiction, past frontiers, old kingdoms, and war zones. It works well as a reminder of how wide his range really was.

These tales of ancient memory, haunted inheritance, and far-off ages sit near the border of fantasy and horror. Howard keeps one foot in history and the other in nightmare.

A strong weird-fiction selection, this volume follows Howard into cursed places, half-seen things, and stories where the past never stays buried. The title fits the mood exactly.

A heroic fantasy showcase, this volume pairs Howard's tales with contextual essays and striking art. It is less a single narrative than a statement of what made his high-energy fantasy last.

Conan tangles with a princess, tribal politics, and the sorcerers of Yimsha in one of Howard's richest magical adventures. It balances action with a genuine sense of looming occult power.

This collection brings together Howard's darker occult stories, where strange books, buried lore, and remote shrines point toward inhuman forces. It is grim, pulpy, and wonderfully unsettling.

This later edition preserves Howard's full Conan novel of lost crown, old sorcery, and return from ruin. The mood is darker than many short stories, but the hero stays unmistakably Conan.

This collection gathers Bran Mak Morn material, presenting a hero fighting a losing battle against history itself. Howard mixes tribal war, haunted memory, and a sense that old worlds do not die cleanly.

This opening volume restores the earliest Conan stories as Howard wrote them, with notes, drafts, and context. You get the raw emergence of Conan as thief, wanderer, and rising legend.

This horror anthology leans into graveyards, monsters, and classic pulp chills. Howard's contribution fits the mood perfectly, fast, dark, and never overexplained.

This hefty collection shows Howard at work across action, western, boxing, and adventure magazines. It is a reminder that he was never only Conan.

Howard's boxing fiction lives on sweat, stubbornness, and trouble waiting at the docks. The fights are fun, but the rough port-city atmosphere does just as much work.

Crusaders, mercenaries, and warlords clash in stories that never romanticize the age. Howard likes the banners and steel, but he likes the desperation underneath them even more.

A broad weird-fiction collection anchored by Kull and other dark fantasy tales. It is a good entry point for Howard's older, stranger worlds beyond the Hyborian Age.

This volume collects Howard's 1934 Conan tales in their original texts. The result is a strong middle stretch of the saga, full of desert magic, pirate fury, and brutal reversals.

This edition pulls together Howard's Solomon Kane stories, poems, and fragments, including material long scattered or unfinished. It is the best way to see Kane as a full, eerie, globe-trotting cycle.

These eastern adventure tales chase gold, revenge, and survival across hard country. Howard keeps the stories moving and lets the setting do most of the seduction.

This volume is Howard stripped down to sweat, pain, and stubborn men who refuse to stay down. The humor comes through too, but the ring action is the main draw.

Howard heads east again for warlords, caravans, betrayals, and doomed campaigns. The stories are fast, violent, and rich in place without getting bogged down in ornament.

This edition centers on Solomon Kane's most sweeping African adventure, then frames it with other strange work. Lost cities, pursuit, and moral fury drive the whole thing.

A man touched by ancestral memory is pulled toward murder, caves, and a past that may not be past at all. The collection around it keeps the same uneasy, time-haunted feeling.

These American stories move from frontier danger to mystery and menace closer to home. They show Howard bringing the same intensity to national history and regional settings.

The final volume of the restored Conan trilogy gathers Howard's late stories, drafts, and fragments in their original form. It shows Conan at his broadest, pirate, wanderer, frontier fighter, and king.

A strong western collection about hard country, bad decisions, and the cost of pride. Howard gives his frontier stories a harsher fatalism than the comic Bear Creek tales.

These western stories range from comic uproar to straight gun-smoke trouble. Howard clearly enjoys both the rough humor and the sudden seriousness of frontier life.

Set on the ragged edge of Aquilonia, this edition highlights Conan in frontier mode, where the forest itself feels like an enemy. It is fierce, bleak, and one of Howard's finest.

These stories introduce Kull, an older and stranger ancestor to Conan, barbarian, king, and uneasy thinker. Howard gives him more doubt, more philosophy, and plenty of danger.

James Allison recalls another lost life, this time in a strange valley cut off from the wider world. There a warrior faces monstrous creatures, rival tribes, and a love story shadowed by doom.

A sick man in modern Texas remembers a past life in a prehistoric age. In that memory, a warrior must face a giant worm and the ruin-haunted world around it.

This weird-fiction selection pulls together Solomon Kane, lost-world fantasy, and other dark tales of strange survival. The title story alone promises that Howard's monsters will not stay politely offstage.

This volume favors curse-laden horror, doomed bloodlines, and violence that feels uncomfortably near. Howard is at his best when the weird breaks into ordinary life without warning.

A compact weird-fiction gathering of cursed objects, lurking evil, and sudden terror. Howard's gift for momentum keeps even the strangest setups moving.

This edition of Howard's Conan novel follows the king through defeat, exile, and a hard climb back toward power. The scale is epic, but the storytelling stays direct and urgent.

This collection brings together Solomon Kane tales of revenge, haunted roads, African sorcery, and grim justice. Kane's faith drives him onward, but Howard never lets the darkness feel far away.

A generous survey of Howard's horror work, from Southern Gothic shocks to ancient evil and cosmic dread. It is one of the easiest ways to see how varied his dark fiction really was.

Francis Xavier Gordon rides through Central Asian and Middle Eastern flashpoints where politics, tribal loyalty, and personal nerve decide everything. These are straight adventure tales, but Howard writes them like they matter.

This collection leans toward the eerie and the uncanny, with Howard exploring ghostly memory and hidden menace. The stories are varied, but the mood stays thick and watchful.

Howard's historical fiction takes center stage here, with battles, ambition, and exhausted courage under bright banners. He never forgets that history is made up close, one blow at a time.

This two-writer correspondence traces Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft as friends, debaters, and working pulp authors. The letters range from fiction and history to politics, place, and the daily grind of making a living by the pen.

A murder in a locked museum pulls Conan into a city mystery with a very nonhuman answer. It is short, sharp, and an unusual detective-story turn in the Conan cycle.