Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Francisco Goya, Arnold Böcklin and Odilon Redon. Four Conan stories and the Hyborian essay that set the world up - Jewels of Gwahlur, Red Nails, Shadows in the Moonlight, Shadows in Zamboula - together with The People of the Black Circle and The Hour of the Dragon, the only Conan novel Howard finished. This is the core of the cycle as he wrote it, before other hands took the character on. Fifty-four plates of battle, cathedral and city by painters from Goya to Apollinary Vasnetsov carry the clash of arms and ancient streets that Howard's Hyborian tales thrive on.