Conan - sort lotus

by Robert E. Howard, Kasper Opstrup (Contributor), Anders Jørgen Mogensen (Translator)

Med Conan skabte Robert E. Howard i 1930’erne sword-and-sorcery-genren, der kan ses som en dyster storebror til high fantasy-genren, som Tolkien gjorde populær tyve år senere. Det er eskapistiske historier, skabt under Den Store Depression, fulde af fremmede verdener, antihelte, blod, trolddom, hjemsøgte ruiner, kollapsede civilisationer og monstre. Men Conan er i de oprindelige historier noget helt andet end i senere fortolkninger. Det er civilisationskritik pakket ind i ramasjang.

Conan: Sort Lotus samler fem af de bedste historier om barbaren, der som tyv, pirat, lykkeridder, lejesoldat, høvding og eventyrer kæmper for at overleve i en verden i forfald og ikke tøver med at dræbe alt, der truer hans liv.

Indhold:
Elefantens tårn
Den sorte kysts dronning
Skumringens Xuthal
Den sorte rings folk
Røde søm

370 pages, Hardcover

Published May 7, 2025

About the author

Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."

He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.

—Wikipedia

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