Robert E Howard Books in Order

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.