Robert E. Howard's CONAN the CIMMERIAN BARBARIAN: The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus (audiobook)

After Valeria of the Red Brotherhood flees the vengeance of the brother of a man she stabbed, Conan catches up with her just in time to be trapped on a rock by an angry dragon. In fleeing from it, they find a strange city, split into two camps of warriors engaged in a bitter blood-feud, ruled by a strange, eternally-young Stygian woman ... who stares at Valeria with a strange and sinister hunger. (3 hours, 1 minute)

'Find the heart of your kingdom.' With these cryptic words, the sylvan witch Zelata sends Conan, once-and-future King of Aquilonia, on a quest that will take him back along all the long, weary trails he once trod on his way to the kingship of the greatest of the Hyborian nations. Along the way, he battles traitorous noblemen, crafty bandits, scheming merchants, bloodthirsty pirates, mysterious assassins from the East, eldritch vampires from the tomb, and powerful Stygian wizard-priests - and in the end, he must face an enemy called up from the land's nightmare-haunted past, an ancient evil wizard who plans to bring back his 3,000-year-old empire of blood and sorcery. (6 hours, 45 minutes)

Awakened by a stealthy step as he sleeps in a cheap flophouse, Conan catches a cannibal about to kill him for the pot; the innkeeper has let them into his room. After slaying the attacker, Conan goes out to find the treacherous innkeeper; instead, he finds a beautiful Zamboulan dancer who begs him to help her restore the sanity of her lover, who has been cursed by the priest of an evil gorilla-god. (1 hour, 12 minutes)

Conan has been hired to help the Aquilonian frontiersmen, who are trying to push the borders out to the Black River in the heart of the Pictish wilderness, much to the fury of the savage Picts. Then a Pictish wizard, humiliated by the border men, pulls together an invading army just as Conan leads a group of scouts across the river. Conan must get back across the river in time to warn the settlers, or red slaughter will ensue. (2 hours, 1 minute)

Conan has come to Keshan to ingratiate himself with the rulers so that he can find out where the country's sacred crown jewels are hidden and steal them. But a Stygian rogue has come with the same scheme. Soon both of them are sneaking around the sacred temple, each trying to use the magically preserved body of the Keshan goddess to gain the upper hand. But they're not the only thing that's skulking around the city .... (1 hour, 39 minutes)

Queen Taramis's twin sister was born with the witch-mark on her breast, so she was left on the desert to die and Taramis grew up never knowing ... until one day the witch-sister appears, casts Taramis into the dungeon, and takes her place on the throne. Conan, captain of the queen's guard, resists, is captured, escapes and returns with an army. (1 hour, 37 minutes)

Jehungir Khan of Khawarizm plots to trap Conan on an uninhabited island in the Sea of Vilayet. But when he arrives on the island, Conan finds that it's not entirely deserted ... not any more. (1 hour, 11 minutes)

Fleeing from a Hyrkanian army whose general he's just slain, Conan sets out on the sea of Vilayet with a dishy fellow refugee and stumbles upon a strange island, in the center of which there is a temple of sorts, full of strangely life-like iron statues. (1 hour, 12 minutes)

A young Conan, the last survivor of a savage battle on the northern snows, follows a strange mocking woman in a race across the icy plain - where an icy doom awaits. (19 minutes)

Conan, rotting in prison for knifing a corrupt priest, is released by a nobleman who wants his help in killing the sinister Red Priest, who is about to rat him out for some financial treachery. But upon arriving at the Red Priest's house, things don't quite go as planned - for anyone. (56 minutes)

Conan falls in with a pirate captain who is chasing after legendary treasure over the western horizon. There, they find a strange island, and a strange and horrifying doom. (1 hour, 4 minutes)

Running from a vengeful army, Conan and fellow refugee Natala stumble across a strange city full of degenerate lotus-dreamers who live in terror of a strange crawling thing that lives in a deep pit in the center of the city. (1 hour, 17 minutes)

A thief accidentally awakens an ancient wizard, who takes a fancy to the princess of Khoraja, Yasmela, and starts haunting her dreams even as he readies a horde of desert nomads to conquer her kingdom with fire and sword. Terrified, Yasmela seeks advice in the temple of Mitra, and is told to go out into the street and ask aid of the first man she meets ... guess who? (1 hour, 28 minutes)

A very young Conan decides to try to steal the 'Heart of the Elephant' from the tower where Yara, the sinister wizard-priest, lives. When he arrives, he meets a master thief, and the two of them undertake it together. What they find inside - other than death - is a cosmic crime in progress: a crime Conan helps avenge. (55 minutes)

A wizard conspires with the kings of two neighboring countries to depose Conan. They capture him with a treacherous request for aid, then cast him into demon-haunted dungeon pits. But there, instead of death, he meets an unexpected ally. Will he escape from the pits, in time to save his kingdom?

In which we first meet Conan the Cimmerian, late in his career, shortly after he has ascended to the throne of Aquilonia. Schemers are plotting to slay him and seize his kingdom - and one of the schemers has made a deadly enemy whose vengeance threatens to engulf Conan and his entire kingdom. (54 minutes)

A pseudo-historical account, in the style of Will Durant, of the Hyborian Age - the age of Conan the Cimmerian, some 12,000 years ago. (55 minutes)

Traveling in the Black Forest of Germany during the Thirty Years War, Solomon Kane joins a fellow traveler in lodging for the night at the 'Cleft Skull Tavern.' This sinister rustic establishment lives up to its grisly name.... (16 minutes)

After English Puritan Solomon Kane stumbles across a young maiden ravished and murdered by notorious bandit 'Le Loup,' he vows a bloody vengeance - and pursues his quarry all the way to darkest Africa in order to mete out justice. (1 hour, 6 minutes)

On the eve of his triumphant assumption of the kingship of the ancient and terrible land of Valusia, Kull of Atlantis learns of a dark and terrible secret that threatens his kingdom and his life. Only with the aid of an ancient tribal enemy can he win through and save his own life - and that of his kingdom. (1 hour, 9 minutes)

Robert E. Howard was the 'founding father' of the 'sword-and-sorcery' subgenre - and Conan the Cimmerian is the archetypal hero of that genre. This introduction gives a little of the backstory of how Howard developed this fascinating literary product, and gives a short biography of the author himself. (28 minutes)