{"product_id":"2940169885125","title":"Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian: The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's \u003ci\u003eConan the Cimmerian\u003c\/i\u003e stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from the introduction:      \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When the first Conan of Cimmeria story appeared in the pages of \u003ci\u003eWeird Tales\u003c\/i\u003e magazine in December 1932, nothing quite like it had ever before appeared in print. Author Robert E. Howard had been writing stories broadly similar to it for half a decade; but it was with Conan, and the Hyborian Age storyworld in which he was placed, that Howard finally fully doped out the sub-genre that would become known as \"sword and sorcery\", of which Howard is today considered the founding father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e    \u003ccenter\u003e\u003cp\u003eConan's origins date back to an experiment in 1926 titled \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring the character Kull, exile of Atlantis. The idea - Howard's great innovation - was, at its core, historical fiction set in a pre-historical period. That pre-historical period - being, of course, lost in the mists of time - could contain anything Howard might like to include: evil races of sentient snake-things, sorcerers, undead creatures, demons walking upon the earth, anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e  \u003ccenter\u003e\"In other words, Howard was creating a secular mythology.\"\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"Harlequin Love Inspired","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150364066032,"sku":"2940169885125","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169885125_p0.jpg?v=1763696330","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169885125","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}