Conan: Conan the Adventurer by Robert E. HowardMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is one of the better collection of Conan stories.
The best one is the last story, "The Pool of the Black One." It also includes two stories of Gods residing in desert oasis cities.
These stories are very sexist, so if you bristle at that sort of thing, stay away, but if you can get past that, it's really great stuff, very much like Lovecraft. Of course, it was written in the early 1930's, so that explains the sexism.
These stores are also very violent, fantastic, and horrifying. What makes the stories great is that they could be put into any setting--it doesn't have to be fantasy (though it does have to be supernatural). These stories could have been set in a Lovecraft world just as easily.
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