Conan the Wanderer

Conan the Wanderer
Conan the Wanderer by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, Lancer Books, 1968
Author(s)	Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
Cover artist	John Duillo
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Conan the Barbarian
Genre(s)	Sword and sorcery Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Lancer Books
Publication date	1968
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	222 pp
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	Conan the Freebooter
Followed by	Conan the Adventurer

Conan the Wanderer is a 1968 collection of four fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines. The book has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Italian. It was later gathered together with Conan the Adventurer and Conan the Buccaneer into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles 2 (1990).

Contents

• "Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "Black Tears" (L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter)
• "Shadows in Zamboula" (Robert E. Howard)
• "The Devil in Iron" (Robert E. Howard)
• "The Flame Knife" (Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)

Plot summary

Conan, now about thirty-one, survives a Turanian trap that crushes his Zuagir raiders and seeks bloody revenge on Vardanes of Zamora, their betrayer. Afterwards he moves on to other adventures, engaging in skull-duggery in the cannibal-haunted city of Zamboula and ultimately gaining command of a band of Kozaki in the service of Kobad Shah, king of Iranistan. In this final adventure he once again encounters his arch-enemy Olgerd Vladislav, his predecessor as chief of the Zuagirs.

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

Olgerd

Olgerd Vladislav first appeared in Howard's story "A Witch Shall be Born", collected in the previous Conan volume, Conan the Freebooter.

References

• Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 43–44. 

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