Robert E. Howard has 25 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 16 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 225 ratings. The most-rated is Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian.
Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian
Summary
This collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author. A full e-book copy of this book in Interactive PDF format is included and can be downloaded by clicking the "PDF" link in your Audible library (it's in the "Title" column). This PDF includes the audiobook chapter numbers, to make navigation easier. Excerpt from the introduction: "When the first Conan of Cimmeria story appeared in the pages of Weird Tales 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. "Conan's origins date back to an experiment in 1926 titled "The Shadow Kingdom", 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. "In other words, Howard was creating a secular mythology." PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
©2017 Finn J.D. John (P)2017 Pulp-Lit Productions
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
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Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities...there was an age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.... Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand...to tread the jeweled thrones of the earth under his sandalled feet. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere 12 years before his tragic suicide, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword-and-sorcery. Collected in this volume are Howard's first 13 Conan stories in their original versions and in the order Howard wrote them. Included are classics of dark fantasy like "The Tower of the Elephant" and swashbuckling adventure like "Queen of the Black Coast." Here are timeless tales featuring Conan the raw and dangerous youth, Conan the daring thief, Conan the swashbuckling pirate, and Conan the commander of armies. Here, too, is an unparalleled glimpse into the mind of a genius whose bold storytelling style has been imitated by many yet equaled by none.
©2002 Conan Properties International, LLC. (P)2009 Tantor
Cool It
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A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the world’s temperature for hundreds of years. Rather than starting with the most radical procedures, Lomborg argues that we should first focus our resources on more immediate concerns, such as fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS and assuring and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply - which can be addressed at a fraction of the cost and save millions of lives within our lifetime. He asks why the debate over climate change has stifled rational dialogue and killed meaningful dissent. Lomborg presents us with a second generation of thinking on global warming that believes panic is neither warranted nor a constructive place from which to deal with any of humanity’s problems, not just global warming. Cool It promises to be one of the most talked about and influential books of our time.
©2019 Bjørn Lomborg (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
Burnt Offerings
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Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals. But Mrs. Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room, and it soon becomes clear that something weird and terrifying is happening in the house. As the suspense builds toward a revelation of what really lies behind that locked door, the Rolfes will discover that their cheap vacation rental comes at a terrible cost.... The basis for a classic 1976 film adaptation and an acknowledged influence on Stephen King's The Shining, Burnt Offerings is one of the most original and scariest haunted house novels ever written. This edition, the first in decades, features a new introduction by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones.
©1973 Robert Marasco (P)2016 Blue Heron Audio
1Q84 - Livre 2, Juillet-Septembre
Summary
Les choses qui restent enfermées dans notre cœur n'existent pas en ce monde. Mais c'est dans notre cœur, ce monde à part, qu'elles se construisent pour y vivre. Le livre 1 a révélé l'existence du monde 1Q84. Certaines questions ont trouvé leur réponse. D'autres subsistent : qui sont les Little People ? Comment se fraient-ils un chemin vers le monde réel ? Pourquoi deux lunes dans le ciel ? Et la chrysalide de l'air, est-elle ce lieu où sommeille notre double ? Ceux qui s'aiment ne sont jamais seuls. Le destin de Tengo et d'Aomamé est en marche. P.S. de l'auteur : Dans ce roman figurent un certain nombre d'expressions qui n'étaient pas encore en usage en 1984.
©2011 . Traduit du japonais par Hélène Morita, avec la collaboration de Yôko Miyamoto et (P)201 2
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
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With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century---he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan was not the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howard's fertile imagination. He was...a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan.... A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things.... Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect---he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane. Collected in this volume are all of the stories that make up the thrilling saga of the dour and deadly Puritan: "Skulls in the Stars," "The Right Hand of Doom," "Red Shadows," "Rattle of Bones," "The Castle of the Devil," "Death's Black Riders," "The Moon of Skulls," "The One Black Stain," "The Blue Flame of Vengeance," "The Hills of the Dead," "Hawk of Basti," "The Return of Sir Richard Grenville," "Wings in the Night," "The Footfalls Within," "The Children of Asshur," and "Solomon Kane's Homecoming."
©1998 Solomon Kane LLC (P)2010 Tantor
The Bloody Crown of Conan
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In his hugely influential and tempestuous career, Robert E. Howard created the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery - and brought to life one of fantasy's boldest and most enduring figures: Conan the Cimmerian, reaver, slayer, barbarian, king. This volume gathers together three of Howard's longest and most famous Conan stories: "The People of the Black Circle": Amid the towering crags of Vendhya, in the shadowy citadel of the Black Circle, Yasmina of the golden throne seeks vengeance against the Black Seers. Her only ally is also her most formidable enemy - Conan, the outlaw chief. "The Hour of the Dragon": Toppled from the throne of Aquilonia by the evil machinations of an undead wizard, Conan must find the fabled jewel known as the Heart of Ahriman to reclaim his crown...and save his life. "A Witch Shall Be Born": A malevolent witch of evil beauty. An enslaved queen. A kingdom in the iron grip of ruthless mercenaries. And Conan, who plots deadly vengeance against the human wolf who left him in the desert to die.
©2003 Conan Properties International, LLC. (P)2009 Tantor
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
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Robert E. Howard, renowned creator of Conan the Barbarian, was also a master at conjuring tales of hair-raising horror. In a career spanning only 12 years, Howard wrote more than 100 stories, with his most celebrated work appearing in Weird Tales, the preeminent pulp magazine of the era. In this collection of Howard's greatest horror tales, some of the author's best-known characters - Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them - roam the forbidding locales of Howard's fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris, to remote jungles in Africa. Included in this collection is Howard's masterpiece "Pigeons from Hell", a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation - and into the maw of its fatal secret. In "Black Canaan", even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers - and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. Also included is the classic revenge nightmare "Worms of the Earth" as well as "The Cairn on the Headland".
©2008 Robert E. Howard Properties, Inc. (P)2010 Tantor
HorrorBabble's Ultimate Weird Tales Collection, Volume 1
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This collection comprises 40 stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction. From Blackwood's The Empty House, through to Philip K. Dick's The Hanging Stranger, Lovecraft's Out of The Aeons, and beyond. Time immemorial; worlds unimaginable. Contents: The Empty House (A. Blackwood) The Glamour of the Snow (A. Blackwood) The Wood of the Dead (A. Blackwood) The Creeper in the Crypt (R. Bloch) Notebook Found in an Abandoned House (R. Bloch) The Shambler from the Stars (R. Bloch) The Pendulum (R. Bradbury) Evening Primrose (J. Collier) A Terribly Strange Bed (W. Collins) A:B:O. (W. de la Mare) The Hanging Stranger (Dick) The Phantom Coach (A. B. Edwards) The Fear Experiment (I. Gordon) That Time of the Night (I. Gordon) VANITY LTD. (I. Gordon) The Horse of the Invisible (W. H. Hodgson) The Searcher of the End House (W. H. Hodgson) The Voice in the Night (W. H. Hodgson) The Dream Snake (R. E. Howard) The Horror from the Mound (R. E. Howard) The Thing on the Roof (R. E. Howard) The Ash-tree (M. R. James) Count Magnus (M. R. James) Lost Hearts (M. R. James) Number 13 (M. R. James) Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad (M. R. James) In Amundsen's Tent (J. M. Leahy) To Build a Fire (J. London) The Pale Man (J. Long) The Space-Eaters (F. B. Long) The Colour Out of Space (H. P. Lovecraft) The Music of Erich Zann (H. P. Lovecraft) Out of the Aeons (H. P. Lovecraft) The White People (A. Machen) The Drone (A. Merritt) The Black Cat (E. A. Poe) Tobermory (Saki) 2 B R 0 2 B (K. Vonnegut Jr.) The Fire Vampires (D. Wandrei) The Crystal Egg (H. G. Wells)
©2019 Ian Gordon (P)2019 Ian Gordon
Kull
Summary
In a meteoric career that spanned a mere 12 years, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction's most enduring heroes. Yet while Conan the Cimmerian is indisputably Howard's greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the brooding intellect of a philosopher, that Howard began to develop the distinctive themes and the richly evocative blend of history and mythology that would distinguish his later tales of the Hyborian Age. Much more than simply the prototype for Conan, Kull is a fascinating character in his own right: an exile from fabled Atlantis who wins the crown of Valusia, only to find it as much a burden as a prize. This groundbreaking collection brings together all of Howard's stories featuring Kull: "Exile of Atlantis," "The Shadow Kingdom," "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune," "The Cat and the Skull," "The Screaming Skull of Silence," "The Striking of the Gong," "The Altar and the Scorpion," "The Curse of the Golden Skull," "By This Axe I Rule!" "Swords of the Purple Kingdom," "The King and the Oak," and "Kings of the Night."
©2009 Robert E. Howard (P)2010 Tantor
Making Bombs for Hitler
Summary
Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish. She will be fine, won't she? But she cannot escape the horrors of World War II. Lida's parents are ripped away from her, and she is separated from her beloved sister, Larissa. The Nazis take Lida to a brutal work camp, where she and other Ukrainian children are forced into backbreaking labor. Starving and terrified, Lida bonds with her fellow prisoners, but none of them know if they'll live to see tomorrow. When Lida and her friends are assigned to make bombs for the German army, Lida cannot stand the thought of helping the enemy. Then, she has an idea. What if she sabotaged the bombs...and the Nazis? Can she do so without getting caught? And if she's freed, will she ever find her sister again? This pulse-pounding novel of survival, courage, and hope shows us a lesser-known piece of history - and is sure to keep listeners captivated until the last word.
©2017 Scholastic Inc (P)2020 Scholastic Inc
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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In a meteoric career that covered only a dozen years, Robert E. Howard defined the sword and sorcery genre. In doing so, he brought to life the archetypal adventurer known to millions around the world as Conan the barbarian. This collection features Howard at his finest and Conan at his most savage. Truly heroic fantasy at its best, this volume contains "The Servants of Bit-Yakin", "Beyond the Black River", "The Black Stranger", "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula", and "Red Nails", which is perhaps Conan's most famous adventure.
©2005 Conan Properties International, LLC (P)2009 Tantor
Les dents de Gwahlur et autres nouvelles
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Ce volume comprend : Les dents de Gwahlur, Au-delà de la rivière noire, Le maraudeur noir. Poussant un juron de panique, Conan fit jaillir son épée. "Crom ! Elle est vivante !" À ses mots, les longs cils noirs se soulevèrent et les yeux foncés s'ouvrirent pour le regarder... impénétrables, brillants, mystiques. Il resta ainsi à l'observer, muet de stupéfaction. L'oracle se redressa alors d'un geste souple sans quitter des yeux l'homme qui la regardait, comme ensorcelé. Conan est l'un des personnages de fiction les plus connus au monde. Robert E. Howard l'a créé en 1932 et avec lui, l'heroic fantasy. Ce héros, ainsi que la puissance évocatrice de l'écriture de son auteur, a eu et a toujours une influence majeure, au moins égale à celle de Tolkien, sur l'imaginaire occidental. Pourtant, les nouvelles du Cimmérien n'ont jamais été publiées telles que son auteur les avait conçues. Elles ont été réarrangées, réécrites, modifiées, artificiellement complétées après sa mort. Ce livre audio est le cinquième de six volumes qui rassemblent l'intégralité des aventures de Conan, restituées dans leur version authentique à partir des manuscrits originaux, avec des traductions nouvelles ou entièrement révisées. Elles s'accompagnent de notes sur l'œuvre de Robert E. Howard et l'univers de Conan par Patrice Louinet, qui en est l'un des plus éminents spécialistes internationaux. Musiques de Eric AOUANES. Avec le soutien de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, de la DRAC, du Centre National du Livre.
©2008 Conan Properties International LLC ("CPI"). CONAN, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, HYBORIA et les logos, noms et personnages associés sont des marques ou des marques déposées de CPI. Utilisés avec permission. Tous droits réservés. Bragelonne 2008 pour la traduction en français et l'introduction de Patrice Louinet (P)2018 Sonobook
Bran Mak Morn
Summary
From Robert E. Howard's fertile imagination sprang some of fiction's greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard's characters, none embodied his creator's brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race. In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism...all save one: Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race. This collection gathers together all of Howard's published stories featuring Bran Mak Morn: "Men of the Shadows", "Kings of the Night", "A Song of the Race", "Worms of the Earth", "The Dark Man", and "The Lost Race".
©2004 Wandering Star, Ltd. (P)2010 Tantor
Shadows in Zamboula
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A full-cast audiobook version of Robert E. Howard's classic Conan story "Shadows in Zamboula", with strategic sound effects to enhance the storytelling. A narration worthy of the well-known barbarian hero.
Public Domain (P)2019 Sam Carnes
Les clous rouges
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Ce volume comprend : Les mangeurs d'hommes de Zamboula, Les clous rouges. Dans le dos des deux fugitifs, la tête gigantesque fendit les branches et creva la cime des arbres et, l'espace d'un instant effroyable, Conan et Valeria virent la tête de cauchemar s'encadrer au milieu des feuilles vertes, les yeux flamboyants et les mâchoires béantes. Puis les crocs géants claquèrent et se refermèrent sur le vide, et la tête se renfonça, disparaissant de leur vue comme si elle venait de s'enfoncer sous l'eau. Conan est l'un des personnages de fiction les plus connus au monde. Robert E. Howard l'a créé en 1932 et avec lui, l'heroic fantasy. Ce héros, ainsi que la puissance évocatrice de l'écriture de son auteur, a eu et a toujours une influence majeure, au moins égale à celle de Tolkien, sur l'imaginaire occidental. Pourtant, les nouvelles du Cimmérien n'ont jamais été publiées telles que son auteur les avait conçues. Elles ont été réarrangées, réécrites, modifiées, artificiellement complétées après sa mort. Ce livre audio est le sixième de six volumes qui rassemblent l'intégralité des aventures de Conan, restituées dans leur version authentique à partir des manuscrits originaux, avec des traductions nouvelles ou entièrement révisées. Elles s'accompagnent de notes sur l'œuvre de Robert E. Howard et l'univers de Conan par Patrice Louinet, qui en est l'un des plus éminents spécialistes internationaux.
©2008 Conan Properties International LLC ("CPI") / "Conan", "Conan the Barbarian", "Hyboria" et les logos, noms et personnages associés sont des marques ou des marques déposées de CPI, utilisés avec permission, tous droits réservés / Pour la traduction française et l'introduction de Patrice Louinet : Bragelonne. Traduit de l’anglais (Etats Unis) par Patrice Louinet (P)2018 Sonobook
The Devil in Iron
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Robert E. Howard's classic barbarian swords man, Conan of Cimmeria, pits his muscles his will and his sword against a demon from the void who has come to his world in search of power and possesses a body of living iron. Meanwhile, Conan continues to disrupt and harry the expansion of the Turanian Empire. Full-cast audiobook with strategic sound effects to help create the ambiance of the Hyborean age.
©2019 Sam Carnes (P)2019 Sam Carnes
The Tower of the Elephant (Conan)
Summary
Classic tale of sword and sorcery chronicling the adventures of Robert E. Howard's most famous character Conan of Cimmeria.
©2019 Sam Carnes (P)2019 Sam Carnes
The People of the Black Circle
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Conan the Barbarian battles the Black Seers of Yimsha to defeat their nefarious plot of world domination in this classic story by famed fantasy writer Robert E. Howard. One of the original novellas featuring Conan, and published as a serial in Weird Tales magazine in 1934.
Public Domain (P)2014 Harry Shaw
Queen of the Black Coast
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FNH audio presents an unabridged reading of Robert E. Howard's Conan in 'Queen of the Black Coast'. In this sword and sorcery tale, Conan finds himself in league with a pirate queen and set against an ancient evil deep in the dark jungles of a cursed land.
Public Domain (P)2017 FNH Audio