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The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien by Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsJ.R.R. Tolkien's complete artwork for his magisterial novel, published on the sixtieth anniversary of The Lord of the Rings As he wrote The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s mental pictures often found expression in drawing, from rough sketches made within the manuscript to more finished illustrations... -
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Dungeon Master's Guide by E. Gary Gygax
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhether you're running a single adventure or masterminding a complete campaign, the Dungeon Masters Guide is the absolute best source for information. There'r nop need to guess the rules. You'll learn spells, monsters, travel, magic lists, and combat rules...Categorized as:
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![The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull]()
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion internationally acclaimed scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull examine Tolkien's masterpiece chapter by chapter, offering expert insights into its evolution, structure, and meaning...Categorized as:
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![Watcher's Repose by Sean Oswald]()
Watcher's Repose by Sean Oswald
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Nelson's have grown tired of waiting for danger to come to them.Now they are going to take the fight to their enemy.Whether that be hit and run attacks against a much larger goblin army by Emily, a raid into the sewers under the capital by Jackson, or the final confrontation with Duke Holstein, they are taking their destiny into their own hands... -
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The Mantle of Darkness by Michael James Ploof
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRead Book 1 FREE for a limited time. Copy/paste the following address into your browser and read the first book of this USA Today bestselling series. http://tinyurl.com/jss6ycd Long ago, the elf Eldarian defeated the Lord of Darkness and Death during the God Wars... -
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Witch World Saga 1-3: The Original Three Books by Andre Norton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first three books in Andre Norton's classic Witch World setting, collected in one ebook. Witch World The first book in the classic Witch World saga by beloved fantasy and science fiction author Andre Norton. Simon Tregarth, a man on the run, escapes from our world into another, where magic still has power... -
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Hyperborea by Clark Ashton Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsScience Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy...Categorized as:
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![Tolkien: A Dictionary by David Day]()
Tolkien: A Dictionary by David Day
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsArranged in a handy A-Z format, this book explores and explains the creatures, plats, events and places that make up these strange and wonderful lands...Categorized as:
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Priest by Matthew Colville
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA Fantasy Novel.After years spent in the inn he bought and never opened, Heden is drawn out, and sent into a dark forest to investigate the death of a knight. Nothing is what it seems... -
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The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWritten in the 1930s as a serial for Weird Tales, the famous pulp magazine, Hour of the Dragon is the only novel by Howard featuring his greatest creation, Conan the barbarian. This powerful novel of violent adventure has spawned many imitations in the genre over the years, including a series of best-selling paperbacks which, in imitation of Howard, continued the adventures of Conan... -
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Conan the Destroyer by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first in a new series of Conan reprints! Conan the Barbarian is one of the most famed figures in fantasy fiction. With the success of the new film starring Jason Momoa and Ron Perlman, the time is right to revisit Robert E. Howard's classic stories... -
![The Tower of the Elephant (Conan, #3) (Weird Tales) by Robert E. Howard]()
The Tower of the Elephant (Conan, #3) (Weird Tales) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsConan infiltrates a perilous tower in the City of Thieves in order to steal a fabled gem from an evil sorcerer. A classic of Conan lore, often cited as one of Howard's best tales...Categorized as:
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Conan of Cimmeria by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsContents:9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in 15 · The Curse of the Monolith [“Conan and the Cenotaph”] · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss Worlds of Fantasy #1 ’68 33 · The Bloodstained God · L. Sprague de Camp & Robert E. Howard · nv Tales of Conan, Gnome, 1955 53 · The Frost-Giant’s Daughter [revised from “Gods of the North”, The Fantasy Fan, Mar ’34] · Robert E...Categorized as:
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![Conan: People of the Black Circle (The People Of the Black Circle; The Devil In Iron; A Witch Shall Be Born; Jewels of Gwahlur) by Robert E. Howard]()
Conan: People of the Black Circle (The People Of the Black Circle; The Devil In Iron; A Witch Shall Be Born; Jewels of Gwahlur) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Phoenix on the Sword is the first volume of stories about Conan The Barbarian, perhaps Robert E. Howard's most famous creation, presenting it as it was originally written and appeared in the pulp magazine Weird Tales meticulously produced to the original magazine texts...Categorized as:
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![Elric: Song of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock]()
Elric: Song of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe founders of modern literary fancy deserve their own place in the light. The Borealis Legends line is a tribute to the creators of the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres as we know them today... -
![Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber]()
Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFahrd and the Gray Mouser, master swordsmen, are determined to climb to the summit of Stardock, a dangerously steep mountain, in search of treasure...Categorized as:
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![Conan the Warrior by Robert E. Howard]()
Conan the Warrior by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsContents:9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in 11 · Red Nails · Robert E. Howard · na Weird Tales Jul ’36 (+2) 105 · Jewels of Gwahlur · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Mar ’35 157 · Beyond the Black River · Robert E...Categorized as:
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![The Best of Robert E. Howard: Crimson Shadows (Volume 1) by Robert E. Howard]()
The Best of Robert E. Howard: Crimson Shadows (Volume 1) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsRobert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre-and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian-Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more... -
![The Dame by R.A. Salvatore]()
The Dame by R.A. Salvatore
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe vast road network of Honce, completed a decade before, had brought great optimism to the people of the land. Commerce could travel more freely and so could armies, and those armies, it was hoped, would rid the land at long last of the vicious, bloody cap dwarfs and goblins... -
![The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber]()
The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOne of them was a huge, brawny, full-bearded barbarian from the northlands of Nehwon. His name was Fafhrd, his weapon a broadsword. The other was a small, nimble man dressed all in gray. Men called him the Gray Mouser, and he carried both rapier and dirk. They were known throughout the city of Lankhmar as brawlers, cutpurses, and rogues...Categorized as:
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![Conan the Adventurer by Robert E. Howard]()
Conan the Adventurer by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIntroducing Conan - heroic fantasy's mightiest adventurer from the wilds of CimmeriaThief, pirate, mercenary, warrior and general, he stands invincible - even when the full forces of the supernatural are unleashed against him... -
![The Hawk Eternal by David Gemmell]()
The Hawk Eternal by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhile the warlike and merciless Aenir wreak havoc upon the territory outside the mountain stronghold of the clans, Sigarni, the Hawk Queen, arrives in a parallel version of her own universe through a gate in space and time. Taliesen, last of the gatekeepers, has no idea why she has come. But he knows that heroes are needed and grants her passage into the ravaged land... -
![Conan The Freebooter by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp]()
Conan The Freebooter by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsContents:9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in 15 · Hawks Over Shem [revised by de Camp from “Hawks Over Egypt” by R.E.H. Howard’s original version was eventually published in The Road to Azrael, Bantam 1980] · nv Fantastic Universe Oct ’55 54 · Black Colossus · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Jun ’33 99 · Shadows in the Moonlight · Robert E...Categorized as:
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![Elric: Tales of the White Wolf by Richard Gilliam, Michael Moorcock]()
Elric: Tales of the White Wolf by Richard Gilliam, Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsElric of Melnibone, Michael Moorcock's doomed anithrero, has become a pivotal figure in fantasy literature since his first appearance more than thirty years ago... -
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![The End of the Third Age: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Four by J.R.R. Tolkien]()
The End of the Third Age: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Four by J.R.R. Tolkien
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe End of the Third Age is comprised of the first section of the hardcover volume published as Sauron Defeated, the ninth volume of The History of Middle-earth. It completes Christopher Tolkien's account of the creation of The Lord of the Rings begun in the earlier volumes, The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of Isengard, and The War of the Ring... -
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Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsConan the Barbarian is a name known throughout Cimmeria, Brythinia, Turan, and all the territories bordering the Vilayet Sea—as well as most countries more familiar to us in the real world. The character has become a multifaceted industry, as famous in our world today as he was in his own world during the Hyborian Age...Categorized as:
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![Worms of the Earth by Robert E. Howard]()
Worms of the Earth by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:"Foreward" by Robert E. Howard "The Lost Race""Men of the Shadows""Kings of the Night""A Song of the Race" (poem) "Worms of the Earth"Untitled ("A gray sky arched.. -
![Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard]()
Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lands from the primitive Picts. The Picts are not excited about the idea however...Categorized as:
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![World's Strongest Farmer by Tyr Havolt]()
World's Strongest Farmer by Tyr Havolt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRaverek wants nothing more than to be a farmer like his dad; tend the fields, harvest the crops, and kill the occasional monster who breaks through the fog wall that borders his home. However, getting what he wants isn't so easy when everyone's job class is designated by the gods and they have plans for the would-be farmer... -
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Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories by Leigh Brackett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA collection of the best stories by one of fantasy and science fiction's most evocative writers, including Sea-Kings of Mars, which combines high adventure with a strongly romantic vision of an ancient, sea-girt Martian civilisation... -
![Moon of Skulls by Robert E. Howard, Mark Finn]()
Moon of Skulls by Robert E. Howard, Mark Finn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Moon of Skulls collects Robert E. Howard's fiction and prose published in Weird Tales Magazine from October 1929 to November 1930, plus one from Oriental Stories...Categorized as:
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![Sword and Sorceress XVI by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Linda J. Dunn]()
Sword and Sorceress XVI by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Linda J. Dunn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFOR HONOR AND VALORWhen a young woman gravely injures a powerful creature out of legend, can she find the courage to return to her victim and face redemption of death?Can an itinerant witch restore the power of a dying god?Will a woman's vow to become the best sword-smith in her land sever her from the person she loves most?Can the bravery of a low-born lass chosen as a sacrifice to a terrible... -
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Elric: Swords and Roses by Michael Moorcock, Tad Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsForeword by Tad WilliamsFeared by enemies and friends alike, Elric of Melniboné walks a lonely path among the worlds of the Multiverse. The destroyer of his cruel and ancient race, as well as its final ruler, Elric is the bearer of a destiny as dark and cursed as the vampiric sword he carries—the sentient black blade known as Stormbringer... -
![Return to Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany]()
Return to Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿon volumes in trade paperback... -
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![The Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock]()
The Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsStormbringer is brought Home! Elric returns to Yishana, and finds peace at last. Meanwhile, at the world's rim, dragging red horror in its wake, a horde unimaginable moves on the fabled, gentle, impossible city, Tanelorn... -
![Conan the Wanderer by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp]()
Conan the Wanderer by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsContents:9 • Introduction (Conan the Wanderer) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp13 • Black Tears • [Conan Universe] • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter46 • Shadows in Zamboula • [Conan Universe] • (1935) • novelette by Robert E. Howard85 • The Devil in Iron • [Conan Universe] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard124 • The Flame Knife • [Conan Universe] • (1955) • novella by L...Categorized as:
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![Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock]()
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsContaining Elric of Melnibone, The Fortress of the Pearl, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, The Dreaming City, While the Gods Laugh and The Singing Citadel this is one of the Millennium Uniform Editions of Moorcock's work, omnibus volumes with revised texts and new introductions...Categorized as:
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![The Emperor of Dreams by Clark Ashton Smith]()
The Emperor of Dreams by Clark Ashton Smith
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the vampire-haunted alleyways of mediaeval Averoigne to the shining spires of dying Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith weaves his literary sorcery, transporting us to forgotten realms of necromancies and nightmares, lost worlds and other dimensions. In the enchanted regions of Hyperborea, Atlantis and Xiccarph, encounter malefic magic and demonic deeds beneath the last rays of a fading sun . .Categorized as:
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![Conan the Avenger (Book 10) by Robert E. Howard, Björn Nyberg]()
Conan the Avenger (Book 10) by Robert E. Howard, Björn Nyberg
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"Peace had reigned in Aquilonia, but when his beloved Queen Zenobia is stolen before his very eyes, Conan, the great barbarian king, cannot rest until he saves her. And so the most stupendous hero of fantasy-adventure returns to the battlefield, matching his savage strength against the most monstrous forces of evil and doom... -
![Shadow Kingdoms (The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard #1) by Robert E. Howard]()
Shadow Kingdoms (The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard #1) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSHADOW KINGDOMS is the first volume of the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, presenting all of Howard's work for the pulp magazine Weird Tales meticulously restored to its original magazine texts. Edited by Paul Herman. Introduction by Mark Finn. Cover by Stephen Fabian. This volume contains: Two-Gun Musketeer: Robert E...Categorized as:
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Wizard's Tower 3 by Gregory Allanther
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Pestilence has come, and kingdoms fall. Nemon Fargus has done what he could to prepare for this, but the End of an Age is not something than can be fought--only endured. The wizard can only hope that what he's done will be enough.There are always more magical secrets to unlock, and he won't stop until he learns them all... -
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Hawkmoon by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExperience Michael Moorcock's infamous multiverse and the journeys of the Eternal Champion. Hawkmoon chronicles the fate of yet another aspect of the Eternal Champion, Doriam Hawkmoon, Duke of Koln. This collection of stories features revised text and a new Introduction by the author. "Five hundred pages of the best heroic fantasy you'll ever find."--S.F... -
![Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures by Robert E. Howard]()
Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe immortal legacy of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Cimmerian, continues with this latest compendium of Howard’s fiction and poetry. These adventures, set in medieval-era Europe and the Near East, are among the most gripping Howard ever wrote, full of pageantry, romance, and battle scenes worthy of Tolstoy himself...Categorized as:
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![The Phoenix on the Sword by Robert E. Howard]()
The Phoenix on the Sword by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRobert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is well known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond... -
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![Trek to Kraggen-Cor by Dennis L. McKiernan]()
Trek to Kraggen-Cor by Dennis L. McKiernan
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJourney back to Mithgar, the spellbinding world of fantasy and myth brought to life by Dennis L. McKiernan in his Iron Tower Trilogy. Here, in an all-new adventure, the eternal struggle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light continues to rage in this magical land of ancient mysteries and mesmerizing beauty... -
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Sword and Sorceress by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Phyllis Ann Karr
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe author of the marvelous Darkover novels and of the best-selling Arthurian novel THE MISTS OF AVALON, has assembled this corona of heroic fantasy wherein women of courage and wizardry challenge the evils and dreads of an ensorcelled world...Categorized as:
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![The Ancient by R.A. Salvatore]()
The Ancient by R.A. Salvatore
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsSearching for his long-lost father, Bransen Garibond is tricked into journeying across the Gulf of Corona to the wild lands of Vanguard, where he is pressed into service in a desperate war against the brutal Samhaist, Ancient Badden... -
![Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard]()
Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Queen of the Black Coast, Conan joins with Belit, the magnificent pirate queen, whose fathers were the kings of Askalon! There is a frightening conflict with a monster winged ape before the sorrowful passing of the Queen of the Black Coast. She who belonged to the sea; to its everlasting mystery he returned her... -
![The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock]()
The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsElric of Melniboné, proud prince of ruins, last lord of a dying race, wanders the lands of the Young Kingdoms in search of the evil sorcerer Theleb K'aarna. His object is revenge... -
![Elric: The Stealer of Souls by Michael Moorcock]()
Elric: The Stealer of Souls by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe founders of modern literary fancy deserve their own place in the light. The Borealis Legends line is a tribute to the creators of the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres as we know them today.This 11th volume of The Eternal Champion series is dedicated to the most popular incarnation of the Champion: the doomed emperor Elric of Melnibone...
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