This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1933 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Black Colossus' is a story in the Conan series in which he leads an army to battle an evil sorcerer. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard - a bookish and somewhat introverted child - was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fiftee