Robert E. Howard 4 hr 32 min read

Four men stand about a green sarcophagus by weird candlelight, waking a sorcerer three thousand years dead, and King Conan of Aquilonia faces the black magic of a resurrected foe.

Robert E. Howard's 1935 novel is the only full-length Conan tale, a sword-and-sorcery masterpiece. Epic, savage, superbly told. Read it for the crown jewel of the Conan saga, a king dispossessed by dark sorcery, a quest for a magic jewel, and the Cimmerian at the height of his legend, from the master of heroic fantasy.

In its time

Published in 1935, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

4 hr 32 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).