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Conan the Adventurer
Conan the Adventurer by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, Lancer Books, 1966Author(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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