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10 best books like The Complete Chronicles of Conan (Robert E. Howard): The Shadow of the Torturer, Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales, Three Hearts and Three Lions, The Compleat Enchanter, Witch World, The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft, Animal Man, Vol. 1, White Wolf, Tales of the Dying Earth, The Lurker at the Threshold

The Shadow of the Torturer
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0671540661
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".

You can rarely trust the...
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0575081562
All right, with this one under my belt, I think I can safely say that I’ve read everything Lovecraft has ever written in his life. I will then skip introducing the author––who doesn’t need any introduction, anyway––and go through a rundown of some of my most beloved horror stories of his,...
Three Hearts and Three Lions
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0575074981
The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threatened the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons and the Wild Hunt itself, were poised to overthrow the realms of light.
And alone against the armies of Chaos stood one man, the knight of Three Hearts and Three Lions. Carlsen, a twentieth-century...
The Compleat Enchanter
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
ISBN0345314352
The Mathematics of Magic was probably the greatest discovery of the ages - at least Professor Harold Shea thought so. With the proper equations, he could instantly transport himself back in time to all the wondrous lands of ancient legend. But slips in time were a hazard, and Shea's magic did not always...
Witch World
AuthorAndre Norton
ISBN0441897088
Andre Norton enthralled readers for decades with thrilling tales of people challenged to the limits of their endurance in epic battles of good against evil. None are more memorable than her Witch World novels. Simon Tregarth, a man from our own world, escapes his doom through the gates to the Witch World....
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations.

The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written.

The Tomb (1917)
Dagon (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
Memory...
Animal Man, Vol. 1
AuthorGrant Morrison
ISBN1563890054
This edition collects the bizarre adventures of Animal Man, a second-rate super hero struggling with real-life issues and moral dilemmas. Buddy Baker is a caring husband, devoted father, animal activist and super-powered being. But as he attempts to live up to all of his roles, he soon finds that there...
White Wolf
AuthorDavid Gemmell
ISBN0552146773
The start of a gripping new series in the tradition of The Drenai Tales

Skilgannon the Damned had vanished from the pages of history. Following the terrible triumph at Perapolis, the General had taken the legendary Swords of Night and Day and ridden from the lands of Naashan. No-one knew where...
Tales of the Dying Earth
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0312874561
Earth is on its last leg. The sun is a red giant, the moon has vanished, and magic has returned.

This omnibus includes the following four books:
The Dying Earth: The Dying Earth is a collection of linked short stories. And here they are:
Turjan of Miir: Turjan, a wizard, seeks the help...
The Lurker at the Threshold
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0786711884
He is not to open the door which leads to the strange time and place, nor to invite Him Who lurks at the threshold ..." went the warning in the old family manuscript that Ambrose Dewart discovered when he returned to his ancestral home in the deep woods of rural Massachusetts. Dewart's investigations into...
The Antarktos Cycle
AuthorRobert M. Price
ISBN1568821468
Embellishments are, at times, welcome, as in the addition of Chipotle chili to dark chocolate (try a dash of Chipotle in your next hot chocolate). At other times, additions to existing works can be kitsch, even gauche. Such is the case here.

I love my Lovecraft, and At The Mountains of Madness...
Stormbringer
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0441787541

With Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock brings a superior fantasy series to a to formally effective and emotionally satifying conclusion.

I love the Elric series, and sometimes wonder if I rate the books too highly. After all, the prose, ranging from workmanlike to vigorous, is often evocative...
The Elric Saga Part I
AuthorMichael Moorcock
The 2011 Re-read:
Elric of Melnibone: Elric, the sickly albino emperor of Melnibone, combats his cousin Yrkoon's machinations for his throne and winds up on a quest across dimensions for a pair of magical black swords.

In the long, long, long, long wait between volumes four and five of...
Hawkmoon
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN1565041933
This series of stories was written in the dark days of declining Britain before the countries of Europe took mercy upon that wild and lonely Goddess and invited her in off her storm tossed Atlantic rock into the EEC.

In this future, unity has failed, Europe is a patchwork of tiny, frequently warring...
The Stealer of Souls
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0583113443
Mighty Elric... Mightier Sword!

Elric-
the most unusual hero in the great tradition of heroic fantasy.
Elric-
the albino sorcerer and battle-thirsty prince.
Elric-
doomed beyond hope to wander a world of barbarism and treachery.
Elric-
seeker of impossible...
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN1435122968
Here is the complete collection of fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.

The Stories included are:

The Nameless City
The Festival
The Colour Out of Space
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Haunter...
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0871404532
"With an increasing distance from the twentieth century…the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period’s most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures," writes Alan Moore...
Pellucidar: The Inner World, Vol 1
AuthorEdgar Rice Burroughs
ISBN1846771188
PELLUCIDAR - The Inner World - Volume 1 - At the Earth's Core & Pellucidar Wealthy David Innes and his scientist friend Abner Perry use Perry's invention the "iron mole" to bore 500 miles into the Earth's crust. In the great tradition of scientific romances, what they encounter inside our planet...
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