Beyond the Black River

MP3 Audio CD. Beyond the Black River is among the original short tales of Conan the Cimmerian, authored by American writer Robert E. Howard and first issued in Weird Tales magazine, v. 25, nos. 5-6, May-June 1935. The tale was reprinted in the selected King Conan - Gnome Press, 1953 and Conan the Warrior - Lancer Books, 1967. It has more newly been printed in the anthology The Mighty Swordsmen - Lancer Books, 1970), and the selections The Conan Chronicles Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon - Gollancz, 2001 and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three - 1935-1936, Del Rey, 2005. It is situated in the quasi-historical Hyborian Age and worries Conan clashing the barbaric Hyborian Picts in the variable lands over the loathsome Black River.

Robert Ervin Howard was a US writer who penned pulp fiction in a wide array of genres. He is better known for his hero Conan the Barbarian and is considered as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.

Robert was born and grew up in Texas. He spent all his life in the township of Cross Plains, with a few times spent in near Brownwood. A studious and scholarly boy, he also likes boxing and spent a few of his time in his late teens bodybuilding, finally participated in amateur boxing. At 9 years old, he aspired to become an author of adventure fiction although did not have that much popularity until he was 23 years old. After such, up to his passing by killing himself at 30 years old, Robert?s works were printed in a bigger set of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he was knowledgeable in many subgenres.

Though a Conan book was almost issued in 1934, Robert?s novels were never gathered while still alive. The central vent for his books was Weird Tales, where Robert made Conan the Barbarian. With Conan and his other protagonists, Robert assisted in designing the genre now called as sword and sorcery, reproducing several followers and providing him a huge inspiration in the theme of fantasy.