The kingdom of Cowra is small, set between vast deserts and plains, but has fertile soil, hardworking, loyal citizens, and a lot of gold, but above all, a lovely young queen who is equally wise and benevolent, Because she is beautiful. But, suddenly, disaster struck. A terrifying sorceress (her...

For a true Conan story, full of savage cunning, magic, fierce combat, and his berserker powers, this is one of the best. When the Freedom Pals are captured and slaughtered by the ruthless Akif Highlord Shah Amurath, Conan joins them in an ambush. Conan was one of the few escapees, hiding in the...

Conan the Barbarian seeks out and joins forces with the world's most muscular woman, Red Valeria, a beautiful pirate who uses her strength and ferocity to outwit the best of pirates. This is one of the strangest stories by Robert E. Howard has ever written - the tale of a savage adventurer, a...

Conan eventually meets his master, the fierce, bloodthirsty, scantily clad Pirate Queen, in Belit. She couldn't resist the huge, blue-eyed, iron-hoofed savage who knocked her down. Together they became legendary pirates and the scourge of Darkshore. They ventured upstream in search of plunder,...

In this exciting story, Conan the Barbarian searches for a mythical treasure. But he found himself in more trouble than he expected. Cunning and powerful human adversaries want to flay him alive, mutated beasts wish to rip off his arms, denizens of the deep want to swallow him whole, and scantily...

In my opinion, the best Conan novel was ever written. It follows Conan, at the height of his power as King of Aquilonia, thrown from Stygia by dark, evil magic and transformed into a hunted fugitive. With the sinister help of a 3,000-year-old wizard from the evilest realm ever brought to life,...

"This is a gypsy world, built of space debris, inhabited by one of the few free races in the solar system. Roy Campbell, a prey abandoned by the Alliance, enters its depths to save Kraylens of Nass and seeks a refuge — only to find that he has become an inescapable slave trap." - Editor's...

Complex science fiction story, written in 1940, published in Planet Stories. What would happen if someone discovered the secret of immortality in 1423 and lived into the 20th century? The problem, of course, is that someone has to die to live; it has to be a woman, a woman who loves him, and he has...

Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the mid-19th century. "We can never be a snobby nation as long as we are willing to make fun of ourselves," he said. He did this in hundreds of newspaper columns, later collected in books. This is a selection of 35 of his most humorous,...

The Book of Revelation, often known simply as Revelation or the Apocalypse, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central place in Christian eschatology. Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text, apokalypsis, meaning "unveiling" or...