 Cover of first edition | |
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Ed Emshwiller |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Sword and sorcery |
| Publisher | Gnome Press |
Publication date | 1955 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
Conan the Barbarian is a collection of five fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard, featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1955.[1] The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales. This collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were divided and distributed among other "Conan" collections. A later collection with the same title but different contents was issued in paperback by Del Rey/Ballantine Books in 2011.[2]
Chronologically, the five short stories collected as Conan the Barbarian are the second in Gnome's Conan series; the stories collected as The Sword of Conan follow.
Contents
[edit]- "Black Colossus"
- "Shadows in the Moonlight"
- "A Witch Shall be Born"
- "Shadows in Zamboula"
- "The Devil in Iron"
Notes
[edit]- ^ Conan the Barbarian (1955) title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Conan the Barbarian (2011) title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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