A few of Howard's other Conan adventures are novellas, but most are short stories, and only one, The Hour of the Dragon, is a full-length novel. In each, Conan must battle wicked forces.

In most of the tales, he is the roustabout adventurer portrayed in Red Nails but he matures as the king of Aquilonia, becoming a leader who inspires trust and loyalty, a good military tactician, and a benevolent ruler.

He even decides to marry.

Red Nails is set in the imaginary Hyborian Age. When he began writing his Conan stories, Howard first developed the history and geography of the world in which Conan would live. This helped him keep each of his Conan stories consistent in setting and events with the others.

Howard's history of the Hyborian world begins with the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, a world of savages and near barbaric civilizations, such as that...