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'The Fire of Asshurbanipal' is one of Howard's stories that feature in the Cthulhu Mysthos. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard a bookish and somewhat introverted child was... Read Full Overview

After a long search for the Persian Gulf (and with a band of Bedouins stalking them), the hustler Steve Clarney with the agfano Yarn Ali manage to find the mythical City of Evil, where they hope to obtain a thousand-year-old jewel. As often happens in these cases, they will take... Read Full Overview

Robert 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... Read Full Overview