Conan the Adventurer (collection)

Conan the Adventurer
Conan the Adventurer by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, Lancer Books, 1966
Author(s)	Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
Cover artist	Frank Frazetta
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Conan the Barbarian
Genre(s)	Sword and sorcery Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Lancer Books
Publication date	1966
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	224 pp
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	Conan the Wanderer
Followed by	Conan the Buccaneer

Conan the Adventurer is a 1966 collection of four fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Dutch. It was later gathered together with Conan the Wanderer and Conan the Buccaneer into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles 2 (1990).

Contents

• "Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "The People of the Black Circle" (Robert E. Howard)
• "The Slithering Shadow" (Robert E. Howard)
• "Drums of Tombalku" (Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)
• "The Pool of the Black One" (Robert E. Howard)

Plot summary

In these stories from Conan's early thirties, the Cimmerian starts as a leader of the Afghuli tribe in Vendhya, sojourns in the black kingdoms south of Stygia, and ends up as a Zingaran buccaneer.

Chronologically, the four short stories collected as Conan the Adventurer fall between Conan the Wanderer and Conan the Buccaneer.

References

• Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 38–39. 

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