The Devil in Iron & Other Tales of Conan (Electronic book text)

The Only Conan Novel and Three Novellas Here is "The Hour of the Dragon," Conan's only full-length novel adventure, published, like all the Conan stories, in Weird Tales. Also included is Robert E. Howard's only other story about King Conan, "The Phoenix on the Sword." Both feature romance along with swordplay and black magic, as does "The Devil In Iron," which finds the mighty barbarian encountering deadly forces interrupting his pursuit of the blond Octavia. "Rogues in the House" is one of Howard's rare, all action stories, anomalous for its lack of a lithesome beauty for Conan to romance. If you've never read the original Howard stories, if you've only read the comic books or the revised pastiches of deCamp and others, then these Conan adventures will surprise you. Conan is no superhero in a fur girdle, nor is he always the nicest of gentlemen. Howard's Conan is brave, strong and cunning. But he is also greedy, rapacious, opportunistic and self-serving when the situation demands. Here are four Conan novellas as full-blooded and savage as Howard meant him to be.