I really enjoyed this series and enjoyed the overall arc and intention of the project. However, there is a distinct difference between Howard's stories and the stories of Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp. Sometimes there's simply no making up for talent and Robert E. Howard had a talent for telling stories. This book is all Howard, all of the time and "Red Nails" may be Conan's finest hour.

I was 21 when I first came across these novels. I devoured the first ten in the series in short order. A classic and one of the all time greats. Even the ones that weren't completely Howard's words.

Fantastic collection here (as well as the beautiful Frazetta cover.) Red Nails is a particular favourite, love the way Conan goes back and forth with Valeria, who is a great presence.

Robert E Howard was a master fantasy writer,one of the greatest and perhaps most unjustly neglected architects of the genre. For me this volume demonstrates that he is infinitely superior to any of the later writers who chose to take up the sword of his enduring creation, Conan.I found the style of these stories, in particular the deliciously dark 'Red Nails', an absolute treat(if you like it you should check out the vintage 1936 Margaret Brundage illustration from the cover of 'Weird Tales' on

8- Sometimes I like my fiction to be exciting, with a dash of mystery, a lot of action, monsters and a tense resolution. Adventure stories have a place dear to my heart (and I also like to write them. I pride myself on my description of action). I now realise the master of the genre is Robert E. Howard. These stories are muscular stories, roaring along, every word intended to paint a picture in the readers mind, in a world specially thought out to allow all kinds of adventure: pirates, wars, old...

Classic Conan. Action, swordplay, vicious panther-like women on all sides. For the true believers.

Book 7 in my re-read of the Conan series. Spoilers ahead!Red NailsI had read an assortment of Conan stories as a kid, and this is one I remember vividly, especially this passage from the beginning where Conan and a busty, blond pirate named Valeria are in a dense forest and encounter a prehistoric reptile."Through the thicket was thrust a head of nightmare and lunacy. Grinning jaws bared rows of dripping yellow tusks; above the yawning mouth wrinkled a saurian-like snout. Huge eyes, like those o...

I had such a blast reading these Conan stories. The richly descriptive prose draws a very detailed picture of every scene and character, and it's only my personal lack of imagination that in my head it doesn't look exactly like the famous Bill Frazetta artwork that graces every book's cover. It's kind of pulpy, of course, but I was surprised how well-written the stories actually are. They are inventive, complex in narration and their development of background lore, and the action is every bit li...

This collection of original CONAN stories is okay, but my favorite is still CONAN THE FREEBOOTER. The problem with the stories in this volume is that there isn't very much romance, and there's a certain cheesiness to the cardboard backgrounds. Here's Conan in the jungles, fighting stereotypical black natives right out of TARZAN. Here's Conan in the lost cities of some sort of Mayan race, and the brown-skinned natives are all crazy fanatics. Then the priest turns up, and he's got some kind of ele...

I have a soft spot in my heart for pre-WWII pulp fiction, particularly Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. Although not exactly high literature, Howard knows how to spin a fun and entertaining yarn. It's a shame he didn't live longer.

This is the seventh volume of Lancer's editions of the Conan saga. L. Sprague de Camp, with the help of Lin Carter, expanded Howard's original Conan stories and edited them into chronological sequence in a twelve-volume series in the late 1960's-early '70's, and the controversy has never quite died off completely. Many people believe that only Howard's original versions of the complete stories are acceptable, and many believe that the Lancer series with the original Frazetta covers (this one has...

CONAN THE WARRIOR is a book in the long-running anthology series, edited by L. Sprague de Camp. Thankfully, I don't think the editor interfered with these tales, and if he did it isn't evident.Each of the stories is an example of the author at the top of his game. RED NAILS is the archetypal Conan adventure: there's danger, conflict and intrigue on every one of the 80 pages. Super plot elements include a battle with a ferocious dragon, deadly foreign fighters, the mysterious Burning Skull, an ag...

"Red Nails". Tauted by many as REH's best Conan story, I thought it's great but not nearly my favorite story at all. It's another story of Conan coming across another ancient lost town with strange people fighting amongst themselves in an ancestral feud. And some ancient wizard is involved. And Conan gets the girl at the end. I make it sound cliché but it is greatly written in the REH style!""Jewels of Gwahlur". This one I liked a little bit less than REH's usual masterpieces. Because it has som...

Mostly Howard, and some of his better Conan stories. Some editing by De Camp. Proably 3 and a half stars.

Robert Howard invented the barbarian "sword & sorcery" style of Fantasy writing, and no one has surpassed him at writing it. Howard's Conan is a primal entity, almost more animal than man. Many writers have carried on the stories of Conan with mixed results. It is best to seek out the volumes that collect only the Howard stories, not all the later continuations.

This is one of the best Conan books - I have the Lancer edition from the 60's. Excellent cover art by Frazetta. This contains 3 stories that sum up Conan very well.

Ah, Conan. I have always liked Conan, and I haven't been disappointed in any of the original Conan books so far. Concerning "Conan the Warrior", I liked all three stories presented in the book... "Red Nails", "Jewels of Gwahlur", and "Beyond the Black River". In "Red Nails", Conan and a pirate woman by the name of Valeria find themselves fighting a large dragon before entering an abandoned-looking city where there's a feud going on between two warring factions. Both sides are out to completely d...

The master of Sword and Sorcery. Great stories that scare and delight; a hero, who's strength and cunning go unrivaled, and a good dollop of other-world building that make all Conan's novels great reads.

Yes, I'm a closet Conan fan and a big one at that although this "book" has been sitting in my BlackBerry for maybe over a year now. It is finally read.