Tales of Conan

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name = Tales of Conan
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image_caption = "Tales of Conan" by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, Gnome Press, 1955
author = Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
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cover_artist = Ed Emshwiller
country = United States
language = English
series = Conan the Barbarian
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genre = Sword and sorcery Fantasy short stories
publisher = Gnome Press
release_date = 1955
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 219 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = The Return of Conan
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"Tales of Conan" is a 1955 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. The tales as originally written by Howard were adventure yarns mostly set in the Middle Ages; they were rewritten as Conan stories by de Camp, who also added the fantastic element. Three of the stories also appeared in the fantasy magazine "Fantastic Universe", two of them before publication of the collection and the other one after. The book has also been translated into Japanese. The collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split up and distributed among other "Conan" collections. "The Flame Knife" was later also published as an independent paperback.

Chronologically, the four short stories collected as "Tales of Conan" represent an add-on to Gnome's Conan series, coming between stories published in the remaining volumes. The first "tale" would fall within the collection "The Coming of Conan", the second between that volume and the collection "Conan the Barbarian", the third within "Conan the Barbarian", and the fourth between that volume and the collection "The Sword of Conan".

Contents

*"Introduction" by P. Schuyler Miller
*"Note" by L. Sprague de Camp
*"The Blood-Stained God"
*"Hawks Over Shem"
*"The Road of the Eagles"
*"The Flame-Knife"

References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=304 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte | coauthors=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | pages=96 | date=1983