The Pool of the Black One (collection)

The Pool of the Black One (collection)

Infobox Book
name = The Pool of the Black One
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Robert E. Howard
illustrator = Hank Jankus
cover_artist = Hank Jankus
country = United States
language = English
series = Donald M. Grant Conan
subject =
genre = Fantasy short stories
publisher = Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
release_date = 1986
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 134 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = Black Colossus
followed_by = The Hour of the Dragon

"The Pool of the Black One" is a 1986 collection of two fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The book was published in 1986 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. as volume X of their deluxe Conan set. The title story originally appeared in the magazine "Weird Tales". "Drums of Tombalku" is the original fragment of a story that Howard never completed. It first appeared, completed by L. Sprague de Camp, in the collection "Conan the Adventurer".

Contents

* "The Pool of the Black One"
* "Drums of Tombalku"

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=331 | date=1998


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