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Edited by L. Sprague de Camp
Conan the Usurper is a 1967 collection of four fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's 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 by various publishers and has also been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Dutch.
Notes
st, 1967
2nd, 1969
3rd, 1970 (n.d., purple stained)
4th, 1971 (n.d., yellow stained)
5th, August 1972
6th, January 1973
Se almost complete Sphere publishing story.
Edition and production details
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Reprint from '89
- Edition format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- July 1989
- Identifiers
- ISBN: 0-7221-4747-3
- Pages
- 203
- Publisher / imprint
- Sphere
- Cover art
- Frank Frazetta
- Illustrations
- None
5 linked Howard works
- The Black Stranger story Howard writing Publications
- The Phoenix on the Sword story Howard writing Publications
- The Scarlet Citadel story Howard writing Publications
- The Treasure of Tranicos story Howard writing Publications
- Wolves Beyond the Border story Howard writing Publications
11 contents entries
- Map of the Hyborian Age (Frontispiece)
- Introduction (Conan the Usurper) • (1967) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp 9 · introduction
- "Introduction" by L. Sprague de Camp
- The Treasure of Tranicos • [Conan] • (1953) • novella by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard 12 · novelette
- "The Treasure of Tranicos"
- Wolves Beyond the Border • [Conan] • (1967) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard 97 · novelette
- "Wolves Beyond the Border"
- The Phoenix on the Sword • [Conan] • (1932) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 139 · novelette
- "The Phoenix on the Sword"
- The Scarlet Citadel • [Conan] • (1931) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 163 · novelette
- "The Scarlet Citadel"
Contributors
- L. Sprague de Camp
- Editor, Introduction author
- Frank Frazetta Blas Gallego
- Cover artist
- Frank Frazetta
- Cover artist
Additional related terms
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Bibliographic and editorial layers
Bibliographic source layer
- Title
- Conan the Usurper
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Date
- 1974 1976 1986 1989
- Source file
- conantheusurper-sphere.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Conan the Usurper
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Date
- July 1989