You should all feel ashamed!  Nobody listed one of the most important fantasy writers of the 20th century?

Name: Robert E. Howard

Series: Oh, I don't know...something like...CONAN? 

Target Audience: Adult

New book release: Well, Mr. Howard probably won't be writing anything new.

Conan stories published in Weird Tales[edit]

1. "The Phoenix on the Sword" (novelette; vol. 20, #6, December 1932)
2. "The Scarlet Citadel" (novelette; vol. 21, #1, January 1, 1933)
3. "The Tower of the Elephant" (novelette; vol. 21, #3, March 1933)
4. "Black Colossus" (novelette; vol. 21, #6, June 1933)
5. "The Slithering Shadow" (novelette; vol. 22, #3, September 1933, as "Xuthal of the Dusk")
6. "The Pool of the Black One" (novelette; vol. 22, #4, October 1933)
7. "Rogues in the House" (novelette; vol. 23, #1, January 1934)
8. "Iron Shadows in the Moon" (novelette; vol. 23, #4, April 1934, as "Shadows in the Moonlight")
9. "Queen of the Black Coast" (novelette; vol. 23, #5, May 1934)
10. "The Devil in Iron" (novelette; vol. 24, #2, August 1934)
11. "The People of the Black Circle" (novella; vol. 24, #3–5, September–November 1934)
12. "A Witch Shall be Born" (novelette; vol. 24, #6, December 1934)
13. "Jewels of Gwahlur" (novelette; vol. 25, #3, March 1935, as "The Servants of Bit-Yakin")
14. "Beyond the Black River" (novella; vol. 25, #5–6, May–June 1935)
15. "Shadows in Zamboula" (novelette; vol. 26, #5, November 1935, as "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula")
16. "The Hour of the Dragon" (novel; vol. 26, #6 & vol. 27, #1–4, December 1935, January–April 1936)
17. "Red Nails" (novella; vol. 28, #1–3, July, September, October 1936)

Conan stories published in Fantasy Fan magazine[edit]

• "Gods of the North" (March 1934) - renamed as The Frost Giant's Daughter and published in The Coming of Conan, 1953.^[9]

Conan stories not published in his lifetime[edit]

• "The God in the Bowl" — Published in Space Science Fiction, Sep. 1952.
• "The Black Stranger" — Published in Fantasy Magazine, Feb. 1953.
• "The Vale of Lost Women" — Published in The Magazine of Horror, Spring 1967.

Unfinished Conan stories by Howard[edit]

• "Drums of Tombalku" — Fragment. Published in Conan the Adventurer, 1966.
• "The Hall of the Dead" — Synopsis. Published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1967.
• "The Hand of Nergal" — Fragment. Published in Conan, 1967.
• "The Snout in the Dark" — Fragment. Published in Conan of Cimmeria, 1969.

A number of untitled synopses for Conan stories also exist.

Other Conan-related material by Howard[edit]

• "Wolves Beyond the Border" — A non-Conan story set in Conan's world. Fragment. Published in 1967 in Conan the Usurper
• "The Hyborian Age" — An essay written in 1932. Published in 1938 in The Hyborian Age.
• "Cimmeria" — A poem written in 1932. Published in 1965 in The Howard Collector.

Most importantly, these are almost all available for free from Project Guttenberg.  After reading these, go check out Robert Jordan's Conan stories, which are also incredible (and less racist.  By a lot.  As in, not racist).

Reading "The Heroes" by Joe Abercrombie, since everyone says he's amazing.  It's pretty good so far, mostly for the humor and the names.  LOVE his naming conventions for the North.  I'm simultaneously working on tFoH for my ten-billionth re-read of WoT.  After that, it's Unfinished Tales by Tolkien.